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Welcome Friends!

It is with great joy and excitement that we welcome each of you to join us as we worship.

Adams Farm Community Church worship services are held each Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. It is a blended service of contemporary and traditional music and worship. We offer Children's Church and a nursery. We celebrate the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper on the first Sunday of every month.

Blended worship is . . .

Worshipping the whole character of God as revealed in Scripture.

The Psalms teach praise, confession, thanksgiving, hearing the word, response in trust and love, benediction and service.

Some worship is celebrative, some is mournful and yearning, some is contemplative, awe and wonder filled. It combines songs with a variety of tempos (fast and slow) and each service should minister to a variety of ages (newer and older choruses, hymns, etc.).

According to the Psalms, blended worship can be “one generation lauding His works to another.” Hence, it can be led by older people, youth, even children.

Blended worship does not abandon the rich heritage of historic worship liturgy, nor is it afraid of the new.

It includes the human voice, male and female, and instruments as diverse as strings, drums and cymbals and horns. (Psalm 150). It can be acappella.

It observes the Jewish year and today's liturgical church year – Advent, the Resurrection, Pentecost, Christ's return, etc.

Elements of color, decoration, architecture, dress, light, banners, and art – including the choral, drama, painting, sculpture, and dance – are a part of its reach.

Blended worship is international – German hymns, English Psalmnady, French carols, Latino hymns, as well as African, “voices from the tribes of many nations.”

Blended worship is therapy for our brokenness in the fall, it is more participative than it is spectating, it is inner as well as outer response, it may include responsive readings, joyous outbursts, peaceful quietness, whispers, hugs, hands raised or folded, kneeling, standing, prostration, and it is at times planned as well as spontaneous. It can be cognitive as well as emotional. It should encompass styles that promote reverence and spiritual focus.

It is the pastor, in an Associate Reformed Presbyterian, Church who is the worship leader in consultation with the elders and their designated worship team, led by the musical director.

The pastor is the leader, delegater, and overseer of the proportionate aspects of worship. His door is always open to you, and your concerns, suggestions, and questions are invited.

The point is: worship is about God. Our worship should be shaped like Him. We approach Him on His terms and not our own.

Sure, we each have our personal preferences, and in our quiet devotional lives, we can have it our way. But when we come together, we each give up a little to blend with other Christians in unity to demonstrate the fuller body of Christ at worship. This is a learned skill much lacking in our world today. But such warms God's heart.

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