St. David’s Anglican~Lutheran Church is journeying together to grow in faith and serve God’s world.
A Note to Church Shoppers
We Are Ourselves: We believe God wants us to be ourselves. We have no dress code and we seek to make our worship space feel as comfortable and relaxed as our living rooms at home. Children are always welcome in our services, and are considered to have an important voice in our community.
We are Contemporary AND Traditional: Our worship is contemporary because it is happening now, because it is rooted in the prayers, concerns, language, music, hopes and worries of real people, living right here and right now. Our worship is traditional because we are comfortable in mining the rich resources of prayer, story, and song that have been faithfully passed from one generation to another over hundreds and even thousands of years.
We are Sacramental: Not every experience can be expressed in words. We use symbols, art, music, and ritual in order to express the inexpressible realities of our human experience and our faith.
We are Eucharistic: In other words, we celebrate communion regularly. Eucharist literally means ‘thanksgiving,’ and our worship is intended to lead us into lives that are more rooted in practices of gratitude. But eucharist also refers specifically to God’s meal of bread and wine, known as ‘communion’ or ‘the mass’, which was passed along to us by Jesus. We celebrate the eucharist and we proclaim: ‘this is the table at which God is host, and ALL are welcome guests.’
Saturday afternoon
4:00pm – "Fam Jam" - Coffee and Open Jam Session. Both seasoned and ‘rookie’ musicians can play together, learn from one another, and musicians – young and old – will have opportunities to take leadership and creative initiative in the music played. The church will be set up in a Coffee House style, with snacks, coffee, juice, as people gather not only to play, but also to listen and enjoy.
5:00pm – Worship. The more formal part of the worship service begins, using music that had been worked on in the Jam. Although this part of the afternoon will be more structured than the Jam Session, the worship is planned in order to incorporate a feeling of spontaneity, flexibility, conversation, and leadership and direction offered not just from clergy, but from all those involved.
Sunday morning
8:00am – During the months of July and August, get your Sundays started early with a simple and beautiful worship service of prayer, reflection, and music. The rest of the day is then yours to enjoy the many offerings of summer in Lake Country.
10:00am – Anglican~Lutheran worship – with choir and music, Sunday school and children’s activities, a meaningful message and a meal of bread and wine, our main worship service of the week is vibrant and engaging, allowing people both to actively participate as well as to quietly receive the strength, prayers, and guidance that they may need in their work, responsibilities, celebrations and joys.
Tuesday evening
7:30pm – We regularly offer a combination of Study & Worship on Tuesday evenings. Although the format and topics change, it is always engaging and welcoming, and allows for a lot of questions, interaction, and honest conversation. If your schedule doesn't allow for worshipping on Sunday mornings, or if you simply crave a mid-week oasis, a touchstone with God during the hubbub of daily life, join us for these evenings.
What does Anglican~Lutheran worship look like anyway?
What we are doing here at St. David’s is relatively new. Although there are a few other congregations in Canada who have similarly merged Anglican and Lutheran traditions into one, each of us is venturing into uncharted territory. There were many questions and concerns from individuals in our parish as we began this journey together as we wondered what this new worship was going to look like. In fact, it looks new in all of the best ways, and old in all of the best ways: in other words, when we actually combined our resources and made one brand new Anglican-Lutheran service of worship, we found that it didn’t feel all that brand new after all, the two combine with a surprising ease and fluidity. That being said, what we do find in our merged worship is a freshness and vitality that neither of us had to the same degree when we were on our own.
We simply have more resources, more ways of expressing the same basic,
life-giving truths of our faith.
