Churches

Cheney Congregational Church

You are invited to join us for our services at Cheney Congregational Church Sunday, Sept. 9, at 10 a.m. Communion, which was postponed from the holiday weekend, will be celebrated this week. All are welcome to participate.

Pastor David Kreuger-Duncan continues to lead our journey through the Gospel of Luke. This week, the topic is “Sabbath Rest…Sabbath Resolve!” based on chapter six. A coffee hour will follow in the fellowship hall, please join us and get acquainted.

Our sound system has been upgraded. Kate Francis, music director, now leads our hymns on the microphone. The congregational response has raised the quality of our worship in song.

Save the date — “Family Fest” is coming the afternoon of Sept. 29. It will be a wonderful time of music and celebration in our church parking lot. The entire community is invited. Watch for additional information.

Call the church office at 235-4193 if you would like to be contacted by our pastor or a member of the church community. Messages may be left if no one is in the office when you call.

Come join us for all our activities. Everyone is welcome at Cheney Congregational Church. It would be our pleasure to get to know you.

Emmanuel Lutheran Church

The congregation of Emmanuel Lutheran Church invites you to come and celebrate “Rally Day” and “God’s Work, Our Hands” this Sunday, Sept. 9, at 10:30 a.m. We begin the morning at 9 a.m. with adult Christian education class (children’s Sunday school resumes Sept. 16), or you may help bundle cookies for first responders for our “God’s Work, Our Hands” service project. At 10:30 a.m. we will have our first “Growing In Faith Together” (GIFT) worship service. This will be an intergenerational, all-ages worship service that will meet in the upper Fireside Room. Our “Rally Day” barbecue will follow the worship service, and at the close of the barbecue we will deliver cookies. For more information, please see our website at http://www.emmanuelcheney.org or contact the church office at 235-6300.

All are welcome to visit Emmanuel’s Little Free Library and Free Community Pantry located at 639 Elm St. Donations of books, non-perishable food and personal care items are always accepted. Both are open to the community 24/7.

Four Lakes Community Church

A non-denominational Village Missions Church. We exist to exalt the Lord, to educate and edify the saints and evangelize the lost. Sunday School is at 9:30 a.m. and worship service at 10:45 a.m. All are welcome! Our worship services combine contemporary choruses and traditional hymns.

Join us for Wednesday music practice, Thursday AWANA at 6:30 p.m. with our AWANA closing program at 7:30 p.m. this week and Friday morning men’s breakfast and Bible study at 7:00 p.m.

We are located at 10311 Spokane St., our phone number is (509) 455-9969 and our Facebook page includes upcoming events.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

A welcoming haven, nourishing all God’s people in body, mind and spirit.

Holy Eucharist at 11 a.m. Rev. Christine Soule will preach and preside.

Attention all college students. The Episcopal, Lutheran and Methodist Campus Ministry (ELM) will resume in September with the opening of college. For more information contact Soule at 844-2553.

Fellowship breakfast is each Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m.

Alcoholics Anonymous meets every Saturday morning at ll:30 a.m. in the parish hall.

The vegetable garden boxes are planted, the vegetables continue to ripen. We are now bringing fresh, healthy vegetables to the Cheney Food Bank for the rest of the summer.

For your contemplation: Most any part of life can become sacred — virtues, oneself, relationships, roles, people, music and literature, time and space. Life as a whole can be sanctified, as we hear in the words of Frederick Buechner describing his life on Rupert Mountain: “Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and in the pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch and taste your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life is grace.”

United Methodist Church

Please join us this week at the United Methodist Church as we celebrate Laity Sunday. Lay speaker Laurie Zapf will be preaching from the book of Ephesians and other lay members of the congregation will assist with the service. Jan Shannon will be commissioned as a pastoral intern working with the Episcopal Lutheran Methodist (ELM) ministry.

Sunday school classes begin this Sunday with a multi-age elementary and middle school class at 9 a.m. An adult class based on the book “Unafraid” by Adam Hamilton will begin on Sept. 23.

Feel free to dress Hawaiian because there will be an Aloha theme for fellowship time following the service. You can break out your Western wear as well. Sunday evening the adult fellowship will gather at 6 p.m. for a Texas style barbecue. Everything is provided for the meal and people will have the opportunity to donate to the upcoming mission trip to Texas. Everyone is welcome.

You may call the church office for additional information and study opportunities.