Worship Music and the Arts
Worship: Worship is the core of who we are as a community. We hear and receive what God has given us in Christ, and, through Christ, we offer back to God the new life he has given us in service to his Kingdom. “I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.” (Romans 12:1)
Worship Band: The worship band leads the musical segments of our Sunday worship services. As the people of God, we envision ourselves as participants in an ongoing history—lending our voices and instruments to the hymn of God’s people of all times and places as well as authoring our contemporary stanza in 21st century Seattle. We rehearse Sunday mornings before the service and actively seek to serve alongside new vocalists and instrumentalists.
Liturgical Arts: The artist “sees the unseen in the seen, hears the no-longer-heard in the heard, and perceives forms and relations in what has become disjointed and broken into fragments by inattention.” We seek to support and nurture both visual and performance artists and to locate their work in our worship as a material articulation of our relationship with God in Christ.
Selah Choir: Selah is a Hebrew word found throughout the Psalms. Its meaning is unknown, yet we as a choir seek to embody in our worship some of its theorized meanings: a pause, an interlude, a crescendo, a call to spontaneous praise. We rehearse weekly from October through April in preparation for the Sundays of the major cycles of the Christian year.
For more information about Worship, Music & the Arts, contact the Director Dan Hammer.