EMMANUEL
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Adult Education
Adult Forum
Adult Forum is offered each week (September through May) between services (9:15-10:15 am).
Education provides opportunities to not only learn about Christian life through the teachings of Jesus, the Christ, but to also guide us in living out our Baptismal Covenant. By centering our lives on Jesus, we are better able to engage the world around us and join in God’s mission of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Other Adult Programming
Men's Breakfast offers scripture study, weekly on Wednesdays
at 7:00 am, in the church kitchen. Contact David Lark.
Confirmation classes - For youth and adults, offered based on interests.
Contact Fr. Joseph Butler.
Inquirers Class – For people new to the Episcopal Church and confirmed Episcopalians.
Contact Fr. Joseph Butler.
Centering Prayer
Every Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. members from Emmanuel and the community gather in the chapel for a period of centering prayer.
Centering prayer is a method of silent prayer that prepares us to receive the gift of contemplative prayer, prayer in which we experience God's presence within us. This method of prayer is both a relationship with God and a discipline to foster that relationship.
Centering Prayer is not meant to replace other kinds of prayer. Rather, it adds depth of meaning to all prayer and facilitates the movement from more active modes of prayer — verbal, mental or affective prayer — into a receptive prayer of resting in God. Centering Prayer emphasizes prayer as a personal relationship with God and as a movement beyond conversation with Christ to communion with Him.
The focus of Centering Prayer is the deepening of our relationship with the living Christ. The effects of Centering Prayer are ecclesial, as the prayer tends to build communities of faith and bond the members together in mutual friendship and love.