Our Holy Week traditions provide us a time of reflection, growth and ultimately joy! There is a definite depth and richness to life centered on worship, gratitude and concern for others. Please join us: Maundy Thursday Service, 7:00pm March 24th EASTER Sunday services 8:30 am Early service- simple celebration of peace and joy 9:30 am Continental … Continue reading Easter Services
Come on out on Saturday Feb. 27th at 6:30 for delicious chili and soup dinner and entertainment by our talented youth band. Dinner served with salad, rolls and dessert. (Your FREE WILL offering is greatly appreciated.) Do you have a winning recipe? Enter your soup or chili for $5. PRIZES for creation voted best by … Continue reading
WBCC Presents BLOOMFIELD HOME COMPANION Old Time LIVE Radio Show
West Bloomfield Congregational Church presents BLOOMFIELD HOME COMPANION Old Time LIVE Radio Show on Friday November 6th and Saturday November 7th, at 7pm both nights. Our show is fashioned after Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, featuring a real live sound effects lab courtesy of the Antique Wireless Museum, fun old-time and newer "radio" plays, goofy … Continue reading WBCC Presents BLOOMFIELD HOME COMPANION Old Time LIVE Radio Show
Kepler and Christ
Biblical Inerrancy is relatively new and particularly bad theology. Kepler, Copernicus, and Galileo all began their work with the support, training, or even sponsorship of the church. As we reach out further and further into the Universe, it is time for us to get back to a faith that welcomes mystery and strives to find truth, … Continue reading Kepler and Christ
Statement from Rev. Corey Keyes on the shootings at Emanuel AME Church, Charleston
I truly believe and hope and pray that with progressively more enlightening, co-mingling, and blending of successive generations, we are experiencing the death throes of racism in this country. But this particular monster is very dangerous as it thrashes, gnashes and breathes fire to the last. People are dying. Others are pretending this is not … Continue reading Statement from Rev. Corey Keyes on the shootings at Emanuel AME Church, Charleston
whine, women and SONG: Three Ways We’re Changing Church, Part 3
Life is a wide and wildly varied adventure when we approach it with openness to others and their experiences. Let's continue to strive to make our faith community a safe and friendly gathering place where all may come and share their stories.
whine, WOMEN and song: Three Ways We’re Changing Church, Part 2
In this, the second part of our three part sermon series, we focus on welcoming and encouraging alternative outlooks and voices normally unheard in church settings, including a sermon on openness and inclusion written and originally delivered by the brilliant Rev. Annis F. Eastman, our beloved pastor from 1893-1895, and one of the earliest female … Continue reading whine, WOMEN and song: Three Ways We’re Changing Church, Part 2
Sermon: WHINE, (women and song): Three Ways We’re Changing Church, Pt. 1
So a storm hits on the Sea of Galilee and four seasoned mariners born and raised sailing that body of water wake up the carpenter to rescue them?!? Talk about your learned helplessness...
Groundhog Month I: Self-worth sermon 2-1-15
In honor of the fine 1993 movie Groundhog Day, WBCC has declared February Groundhog Month. Corey will be preaching a four-part sermon series on the interconnection of the self and the holy, focusing on self-worth, self-surrender, self-care, and self-awareness. This first sermon begins with a three minute audio clip from the movie. https://archive.org/embed/2115FullServiceMp3
Christmas Services
Merry Christmas! WBCC is FILLED with SPIRIT this Christmas season! So many of you have commented on the particular warmth and loving Spirit we are feeling in our beautiful old church Please mark your calendars and add to that Spirit with your presence: • Sunday, December 21 A Christmas Carol Shadow Play and The Hallelujah … Continue reading Christmas Services
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