Calvary Church, United Methodist

Join us during the Season of Advent.

Advent Sunday Worship each Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m.

Calvary Christmas Pageant – Saturday, December 17, 4:00 p.m.

Christmas Night Hike – Thursday, December 22, 6:00 p.m. Gather at 14 Linwood Street

Christmas Eve Services – Saturday, December 24, 5:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (see below)

Christmas Morning Worship – Sunday, December 25, 10:30 a.m. (please note: no Sunday School at 9:30)

New Year’s Day Worship – Sunday, January 1, 10:30 a.m. (please note: no Sunday School at 9:30)

Epiphany Celebration Worship – Sunday, January 8, 10:30 a.m.

Sunday School classes for all ages resume on September 18. All are welcome to join in now or at any point in the year. We have 5 classes meeting each Sunday from 9:30 – 10:20 a.m. Come check them out.

Toddlers and Preschool: A gentle time for toddlers and parents to share a story, a song, a little activity and some playtime. A great way for toddler families to get to know each other.

PreK and Lower Elementary: A class for PreK kids through Grade 2, featuring an age appropriate curriculum, with stories, songs and an activity.

Upper Elementary: A class for children in grades 3 – 5 with a curriculum that starts to stretch beyond just stories and activities.

Youth Class: For children in grades 6 – 12. The youth help to set the curriculum. Fall season will include worship drama.

Adult Class: Adults gather in the parlor for a series of bible study and book study. All welcome.

Arlington and the surrounding areas are under several severe weather warnings for the next 36 hours, with the worst of the storm forecast to hit during the morning and afternoon hours on Sunday, August 28. We advise our Calvary Church family to take these warnings seriously and put safety of family and neighbors foremost.

The church will be open for Sunday Morning Worship at 9:30 a.m., led by our lay leader, Alexx Wood. However, each family or individual should consider safety first when deciding whether to attend.

Here is a listing of the Lectionary Scripture Readings for this Sunday, if you would like to have some time for worship and prayer at home. Please keep in your prayers those directly in the path of this storm.
Exodus 3:1 – 15
Psalm 105
Romans 12:9 – 21
Matthew 16:21 – 28

We are hosting a pot-luck dinner and conversation with Methodist guests from Russia this Saturday (June 4) at 6 p.m.  It is a rare and exciting opportunity, and I hope that you will join us!

Please bring one of your favorite pot-luck items – main dish or salad preferred – and enjoy some fellowship with other members of Christ’s global family!

Members of the Calvary Youth Group and several Calvary families will be joining the Project Bread Walk For Hunger on Sunday, May 1. The 20 – mile course winds from Boston Common out through Newton and back along the Watertown and Cambridge side of the Charles River.  Last year at least 15 members of Calvary Church completed the full 20 mile course to raise money and awareness of hunger in Massachusetts.

If you would like to encourage the Team Calvary walkers and donate to this excellent cause, you can click here and donate directly on-line at the Team Calvary page. While you are at it, send a few prayers our way on Sunday morning.

On Friday April 22nd, all are invited to participate:

At 12 noon, we will join the Good Friday Service at St. John’s Church, 74 Pleasant St. Arlington.

And at 7 p.m. at Calvary, join us for a Service of Tenebrae (shadows) with dramatic readings from the passion Christ.

The children will be escorting Guapo the donkey down Mass. Ave., meeting at Calvary at 10 a.m.  Guapo the donkey will arrive at Calvary by 10:45.  At that time during the service, the congregation will be invited to go outside for a few minutes to greet him.