Evening Worship at 4:30 Returns!

Our Evening Service relaunches August 14 at 4:30pm up in Goforth Hall

We are excited to announce the (re)launch of our evening worship community for the first time since the pandemic!

We want this service to be one that is deeply attuned to the needs of our neighbours. Our neighbours are often young (the university is right next door!), they’re people who love living in the city, and they’re people who often live alone with little family or roots close by.

Our evening worship service prioritizes expressions of worship which help people to feel comfortable however they are: with hard questions, doubts, loneliness, and joy; and where gifts can be fostered in service of Christ, the church, and the world which God loves. It’s a place and time that values rather than shies away from experimentation, and that is rooted in the truths of God’s love for us and how that love shapes us to love one another.

Our Evening Worship service happens within the larger context of our church—so some things will be the same. We will broadly follow the same preaching series with some thoughtful adjustments for the evening service community and we are firmly grounded in our vision of Following Jesus, Loving the City, and Serving the World. There will also be distinctive parts of this expression of worship: more informal, more intimate, more opportunities for prayer, and celebrating the sacrament of Holy Communion weekly rather than monthly to foster an intimacy with Jesus and with other members of Jesus’ body that we share the meal with.

We’ll meet at 4:30pm which means we always finish by 6pm. We hope this means people will make time to socialize and even invite each other to meals nearby or in their homes. We’ll also meet in the Goforth Hall (upstairs on the 2nd Floor at Knox) which we hope will foster an ease of getting to know others who worship beside us.

If this speaks to you, we hope you’ll join us for evening worship at 4:30pm beginning on August 14th to see what God’s Spirit may yet do among us. If you know neighbours, classmates, colleagues and friends who might be looking for an experience of worship that feels like this, invite them, too! We’re excited to have an intentionally intergenerational service in the morning and a thoughtfully engaging informal service in the evening once again.

—Rev. Nick Renaud