Weekly Traditional Services
Christ Church proudly offers the following two traditional services every Sunday. If you have questions related to our traditional services or would like to learn more, please contact one of our pastors or traditional music staff.
8:30 AM - Traditional and Informal (Sanctuary)
Our 8:30 service is traditional but in an informal and rather relaxed style: the congregation has a few minutes before the service to sing stanzas from “old favorite” hymns, which they request on the spot. This is followed by a very brief instrumental prelude leading into the body of the service. A choir, piano and organ furnish music leadership at this service, with occasional contributions by handbells or instrumentalists. This service is always completed well ahead of the Sunday School hour.
11:00 AM - Traditional Service (Sanctuary)
Our 11 AM service is more formal in worship style, during the winter months there is a formal processional with acolytes and crucifer, and a large adult choir and organ furnish most of the musical leadership, though handbell or instrumental ensembles also are frequently used. Major choral works are sometimes presented in this service as are children’s musicals, and a regular feature of this service is Sharing Faith with Children, which takes place for elementary children early in the service on the steps to the altar. Following the children's time, children may choose to follow the acolytes to the Chapel to continue to worship in a "Children's worship service." You can learn more about worship for children here. Although sacramental events can be celebrated at any of our services, the 11am service is frequently chosen for baptisms and confirmations because of the beauty of the Sanctuary and its spacious seating.