Children will join their families when we celebrate communion on September 9. This “family communion” is a tradition that goes back quite a way at COS, and the worship committee has decided to revive the practice in conjunction with our current bi-monthly baptism schedule. The children will leave the service as usual, but will return [...]

Art Committee
The visual arts at Church of the Servant include seasonal sanctuary decorations, art exhibits, and graphic design. Fine artists, textile artists, photographers, computer artists, art historians, interior designers, art theologians, and even non-artists are involved in the art committee. For more information, please contact Ellen Vander Mey.
Liturgical Dance Committee
Dance at Church of the Servant accompanies congregational [...]

Becoming a prism of God’s light in liturgy and life
We will proclaim the good news of the Lord Jesus Crist with worship that is catholic, celebrative, and participatory, so that the faithful will be nourished and so that the seeker may encounter in worship the living Lord.
Sunday worship is the heartbeat of a vital [...]

The Worshiping Community
A number of people have asked me who those two new, young musicians are who have been at COS lately. Forgive me for not properly introducing to you our interns from Calvin’s worship and music program, Jordan Clegg and Melinda Campbell.
Melinda hails from Saginaw and is a senior environmental geology major who really [...]

Canticles
Astute observers will have noticed that in today’s liturgy we sang a song based on Isaiah 12:2-6 where we normally sing a lectionary Psalm.
The Psalms are the official songbook of the Bible and part of the weekly lectionary scripture, but they are not the only songs in the Bible. Non-Psalm biblical songs, called canticles, have [...]

Happy New Year!
Just as the civic calendar begins a new cycle on January 1, the liturgical calendar begins with the first Sunday in Advent. So happy new (liturgical) year! The liturgical calendar unfolds in two broad sweeps. The first half of the cycle (from Advent to Easter) follows the life of Christ and the second [...]