Services

A Glove and a Ball

Resilience in life allows us to be able to thrive in the midst of change and loss. What is resilience and how do we cultivate it? Sunnyhill member BK Kosmach explores how childhood experiences such as baseball can lead to amazing discoveries and personal growth opportunities.

Youth Group Service

The Sunnyhill High School Youth Group will present the Sunday morning service, which includes a Bridging Ceremony.

Soda Pop Salvation

“Salvation” can come in many forms, often in the small and surprising ways.  It is there for the taking through everyday acts of love and kindness.  A reflection on a trip to Maine provided the seeds to turn an incongruous religious upbringing into a people-centered view of salvation. Jeff Vipperman took part in a year-long … Continued

The Journey Toward Forgiveness

Forgiveness is one of the greatest challenges and most enduring themes of human existence. One way of conceptualizing forgiveness is as a continuum rather than a destination. How can this idea help us be forgiven and forgiving?

Curiosity and Wonder

Curiosity and wonder can be much-needed antidotes to feeling overwhelmed and stuck. Instead of remaining mired in frustration and anger, how might we cultivate a sense of curiosity and a sense of wonder?

Coming of Age Service

Credo is a Latin word, which is generally translated as “I believe,” but its literal meaning is closer to “what I set my heart to.” Sunnyhill’s Coming of Age (COA) class will share what is close to their hearts in this service, which is a capstone of the COA curriculum.

Church & All That Jazz

The way we “do church” is different in a larger congregation than it is in a small congregation. This service—which will feature a jazz ensemble—will focus on both the challenges and opportunities of being a church that is growing. Annual Meeting will follow service.

Practice Resurrection

The cycle of the natural world is one of death and resurrection. Everywhere we turn we can see death and rebirth, especially during this time of year. How can we become practitioners of resurrection in our personal lives and in our world?

Passover Journeys

What does it mean to leave everything behind and unexpectedly set out on a journey toward some unknown promised land? How do our own individual journeys relate to the stories of Passover?

The Earth: Whole & Broken

The brokenness of the world is often all too easy to see. At times, it may seem that nothing in world is working as we hope it would. Still, in the midst of all this apparent brokenness, there is wholeness and beauty. How can our appreciation for the earth’s wholeness help us mend its brokenness?