Chapel Schedule for Fall 2021
Weekly interdenominational worship services are held on
Monday nights at 6:30pm in Greene Chapel. Services include traditional, praise worship and once a month at 5:45 p.m. in Worsham Hall for Dinner Church (see below for more information). Worship is planned and led
by the Chaplain and Hendrix students.
Open table communion is held on Wednesday Mornings at 7:45 a.m. in Greene Chapel.
Following our worship services, enjoy a time of fellowship with friends just outside the Chapel.
Interested in ministry as a church leader or non-profit? Join us for Exploring Ministries Together on Monday nights at 7:15 p.m.. Contact Eva Englert-Jessen for more information, englert-jessen@hendrix.edu.
Chapel Schedule for Fall Semester 2021
Sermon Series:
|
DATE
|
DAY
|
TIME
|
EVENT
|
| Aug 30 |
Mon |
6:30pm |
Rev. Ellen Alston, preaching |
|
Sep 13 |
Mon |
6:30pm
|
Rev. Ellen Alston, preaching |
| Sep 20 | Mon | 6:30pm | Rev. Ellen Alston, preaching |
| Sep 27 | Mon | 5:45pm | Dinner Church in Worsham |
| Oct 4 |
Mon |
6:30pm |
Rev. Ellen Alston, preaching |
|
Oct 11 |
Mon |
6:30pm |
Rev. Ellen Alston, preaching |
| Oct 18 | Mon | 5:45 pm | Dinner Church in Worsham |
|
Oct 25 |
Mon |
6:30pm |
Rev. Ellen Alston, preaching |
|
Nov 1 |
Mon |
6:30pm |
Rev. Ellen Alston, preaching |
| Nov 8 |
Mon |
6:30pm |
Rev. Ellen Alston, preaching |
| Nov 15 |
Mon |
5:45pm |
Dinner Church in Worsham |
|
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|
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*Dinner church is an intimate, "come as you are" form of
worship that takes place over a shared meal, anchored in the belief that sacred
and transformative things happen when we break bread together and bear witness
to the love of God in each person around the table. It places the Communion meal and all that it represents at the
center of the worship experience, and is a participatory service that includes
shared prayers, serving one another the bread and cup, and a "sermon"
that takes the form of a brief message followed by table conversation on a
specific topic.
Many faith communities have been sharing worship and fellowship
over food for centuries, so in that respect dinner church is not particularly
"new." It is new in terms of it being the primary form that some
congregations take, rather than a more traditional liturgical worship service.
One of the first dinner church communities, St. Lydia's, was established by a
young Episcopal priest in2008 in Brooklyn, New York, who heard many young
adults express a desire to do church differently and to combat social
isolation. It has since become a movement, with dozens of dinner church
communities gathering all over the United States.