The service that begins our Lenten journey, known as Ash Wednesday, is February 26, 2020. This is a service of penitence and humbleness, giving us time to reflect on our own mortality and sinfulness and allowing us time to turn … Continue reading
Highland offers two Christmas Eve Services for your family and friends to attend. The service at 4:00 p.m. includes singing Christmas carols and reading the Christmas story as we wonder at the coming of the Christ Child. A candlelight ending … Continue reading
Highland’s church family will celebrate All Saints’ Day this Sunday, November 4. In all three morning worship services, we will pause and remember those in our church family who died in the past year: Dick Allison, Phoebe Delamarter, Rylee Edelen, … Continue reading
We join Christians around the world on October 6 in celebrating World Communion in our Sunday morning services. We will hear the readings for the day in different languages and sing hymns that awaken our awareness of the global need … Continue reading
Highland’s 2019 Holy Week Schedule Four weekend worship services through the Lenten season—Fridays, 7:00 p.m. and on Sundays, 8:30, 9:30, and 11:00 a.m. In addition to weekly worship, special services during Holy Week include: Palm Sunday: April 14, … Continue reading
Highland’s 2018 Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday: March 25, 8:30, 9:30, 11:00 a.m., Sanctuary Lauren Jones Mayfield, Proclaimer Mark 11:1-11 Sanctuary Choir: Glory to the King! Sing … Continue reading
Living and loving Lord, We come before you in this Lenten season with heavy and anxious hearts. We struggle in the darkness, wondering why our children and teachers aren’t safe in their schools. We’re battling hopelessness as to what we … Continue reading
Beloved Is Where We Begin It was late October 2017, and Highland’s Worship Ministry Group was at Gethsemane for a day-long retreat. The day away from our busy lives held time to be together, to pray, and to work for … Continue reading
In his book “The Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure”, Langdon Gilkey wrote about people imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in Northern China. He described the group as business people, missionaries, doctors, professors, prostitutes and … Continue reading
Growing up Southern Baptist, I was accustomed to a somewhat informal worship service in that there were no robes except in the choir, no processional except maybe at the Christmas pageant, no candle lighting except on Christmas Eve or for a … Continue reading