Worship & Ministries

Join us weekly at 9:00am for Sundy School for children and youth beginning at four-years-old. We explore the Living Word and have fun through crafts, activities, and lessons. Adults can join in coffee & conversations or our Adult Circle Process group.  Annually, we host several family-oriented events such as Trunk or Treat and an Easter egg hunt.

Join us every Tuesday at 10:15 to  study and discuss the upcoming week’s lectionary scripture and ways that we can connect with our current world based on the UCC’s weekly seeds.

 Pastor Barb and other lay leaders,  leads topic specific studies to explore the scriptures, christian life, and ways to engage our current world through our faith.

Join adults on Sunday mornings at 8:45am to explore scripture and how God’s word is intertwined with our daily lives. The circle process format allows each person to speak freely and to listen to one another.

Choir rehearses weekly and performs during worship September -June

Bell Choir rehearses weekly and performs monthly during worship September-May

Pipe organ and Piano during each worship

Special music offerings throughout our worship services as well as additional music performances through “Music on the Move”, Concerts from local musicians and musical groups, and recitals from our ‘own’ musicians.

MRT host regular food drives, mission trips, provide supplies for disaster relief, serves homemade meals to those without homes in Philadelphia, supports collections for Operation Christmas Child, organizes and assists with sponsorships of children going to school in Libya through Gods Precious Children, support creation of Thanksgiving baskets to provide ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner to local community members, packs items for local students meals through RamPacks, and Crop Walk to name a few . We promote fundraisers to support these missions such as annual hoagie sales, Nights at the Perk, Dinners  and BINGO nights. MRT meets monthly create ways to reach out to meet the needs of our wider community.

Find out more about our mission outreach.

Each summer for a week of mornings in July, we gather with children 4 years through 5^th grade to explore God’s word through fun activities, games, and more. Our VBS team focuses on the peace and love of Jesus. Our one-of-a-kind curriculum promotes an inclusive experience to better understand Christ’s love for ALL children.

A mission to create welcoming church grounds and honoring our historic church building through semi-annual clean-up days and regular maintenance and repairs. This team meets as needed.

Our altar guild team prepares our sanctuary throughout the liturgical year, decorates for special holidays and prepares the elements for our open communion services. The team supports weekly worship through keeping candles filled with oil, removing flowers after worship and preparing them to go home with members of the faith community or to someone experiencing illness or hardship. This team meets bi-annually with scheduled times to decorate and meet as needed. Members each take a month with a partnering member to do weekly tasks to prepare and clean up from worship.

Joyfully cooks, bakes, and serves our greater community through public dinners, special church events, Memorial luncheons, and our well-known farmer’s market pies. Come bring your culinary skills and join with us to serve the Lord through food prepared with love.

St. Andrew’s is currently going through the process and exploration of becoming an Open and Affirming Church. Open and Affirming (ONA) is the United Church of Christ’s (UCC) designation for congregations, campus ministries, and other bodies in the UCC which make a public covenant of welcome into their full life and ministry for all people.

St. Andrew’s United Church of Christ is an inclusive community rooted in God’s incredible love. As we work towards exploring and being an Open and Affirming Church, we strive to embrace and seek to preserve the beautiful diversity of God’s creation. We are a Christian community of faith who welcomes all people, embracing all diversities.  All are invited to participate fully in the life of the church—in worship, celebrating the sacraments, in fellowship, ministering as lay and ordained persons, in leadership positions and in mission.