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A typical worship service lasts between 60 and 90 minutes. We have a consistent order to our worship services that guides our hearts, minds, and bodies into a deeper awareness of God's presence with us. 

Gratitude 

We begin our service by sharing something we are grateful for from the previous week. You can share with others at your table or those seated beside you. You can also choose to silently express your gratitude to God. We typcially spend around five minutes sharing gratitudes. 

Welcome & Prayer

We are then reminded by one of our leaders of our month’s community rhythms, a spiritual practice and passage of scripture, and we praying together.

Worship

We encourage you to remain seated or stand while we sing together. You can take any posture of worship that you feel drawn towards like lifting your hands or kneeling in response to God’s presence. The worship team features members from our community who love to lead us using their many and varied gifts. The songs you hear will be a mixture of traditional hymns and contemporary worship songs to reflect the diversity in our community. We will occasionally have a service where we sing traditional hymns without instruments to celebrate our church's history.  You can listen to some of our favorite songs on our Youtube Playlist.

After three songs, we invite everyone to join us in taking communion also called the Lord's Supper. We take communion every Sunday and welcome all followers of Christ to participate in this time of remembrance.  After communion, you will hear a hopeful message about the good news of Jesus. The preaching is biblically solid and relevant to the world in which we live. You will hear some of our leaders pray. We believe in prayer! As we pray for our world and each other, you’ll also have the opportunity to submit a prayer request. We close our service with brief announcements featuring upcoming events!

Our desire is that you will feel at ease and comfortable when you join us for worship . The atmosphere is warm and inviting like a family gathering. You are encouraged to join us for coffee and treats before the service begins to get to know members of our community or you are welcome to sit and wait until the service begins. We understand that extroverts and introverts experience a gathering  differently and we want to be respectful of how you chose to engage. 

We believe that our kids should have a meaningful experience during service because they are just as important members of our community as any adult. Our kids are invited to worship alongside their parents and have a special time right after communion where they are invited to the stage to practice meditating on a verse of the Bible. The kids are then dismissed to our Education Building where they participate in Kid's Church featuring Bible stories and crafts with our volunteers for children up to the third grade and an attended nursery for children up to three years old.  We care about your child's safety and excitement about being a part of church. 

Just be comfortable and be yourself. Jeans and flip flops are very common, but people wear anything from shorts and t-shirts to business suits. At Tempe Church, we're more interested in you as a person and not your fashion choices.