Currently we have Three worship services at Morning Star UMC. All of our worship services tend to be relaxed and informal, though they vary from more traditional to contemporary in terms of music, and from relaxed traditional to contemporary to emergent in terms of "feel."

Sunday Morning Traditional Worship

   8:15 AM, "Wildwood Chapel" is a traditional worship service with music predominately from the "revival" period of the mid1800s-mid1900s including "southern gospel" choruses from the 1920s-1970s. A "country church" feel.

   11:15 AM, "Sure Foundation" is a traditional worship service with hymns from across the history of the church, from Classical periods to modern hymns, including some selections from the early contemporary movement.

Sunday Morning Contemporary Worship

   9:45 AM, "RPM Worship" is a contemporary worship service with cutting edge music, including some original praise and worship music. Worship-enhancing multimedia components are also an integral part of the experience, with various presentations and clips.

What we believe about worship.

Most churches would probably agree that God is the focus of worship. And for Christian worship that God is the Triune God we experience as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Most churches might even use the word "praise" to describe the particular kind of focus we give God in worship.

We do NOT believe "praise" of God is authentically done by all people in the same way, and we DO believe that Morning Star is called to host worship in ways that help people authentically praise their Lord.

That means we worship in different styles. That means we value the different styles of worship. That does NOT mean we never "cross over" or push ourselves to worship in new and meaningful ways ("new" here doesn't just mean contemporary or emergent, but there are "new/unknown" hymns and liturgies that take traditional worshipers to new places), but it does mean we don't force "blending" or champion one style and allow "exceptions."

Another very important thing we believe about worship: it should engage the whole human. Here we depart from a number of churches within the larger Church. We believe the emotions should be part of worship. We think it is dishonest, and frankly missing the beauty, to create worship in which we praise God by being miserable or bored.

Because the great glory of worship is that even as we seek to give to God, the grace of God is given in abundant excess of our praises. God always outlives us, and this happens in worship. So worship should be all about God... but worship is also a place in which our needs are met... because God has chosen to use worship to meet our needs.

These are just a few important things about worship at Morning Star we wanted to share with our web visitors.

If you missed a week at Morning Star or you know someone who wasn’t able to attend the service, there are DVD copies of the 11:15 am service available in the library.