Healing Prayer

Our healing prayer team is available for private prayer, laying on of hands and/or anointing in the side chapel during communion at the 10:30am service each Sunday.

We also have an active list of daily prayers that our prayer team prays privately during the week. If you would like us to pray for someone or something in particular, write your prayer on the list in the chapel, by …

Centering Prayer

Twice a month we offer centering prayer, a practice of quiet and stillness. Rooted in ancient contemplative prayer practices, this contemporary form of prayer offers peace in a busy world.

Click here to learn about centering prayer. No experience is needed; the group is gently led through the prayer process each time.

Centering Prayer meets for an hour in the MLK room, on the 2n…

Adult Classes

Most Sundays we hold classes for adults between our two services – classes that deepen our spirituality and inform our faith. Similarly, we hold classes during Lent on Wednesday evenings, preceded by evening prayer and a potluck dinner.

Classes range from introductory topics - like What is Advent? What is Lent?, and The Insider’s Guide to Holy Week - to series on aspects of Ch…

Bible Study

Bible Study meets at 9:30am every Wednesday after the Farmer's Market Eucharist. Each week we study the Gospel for the upcoming Sunday. Led by clergy, all are welcome whether dropping in once or twice, coming occasionally, or participating regularly.

Education for Ministry (EfM)

EfM is a four-year theological education program that forms participants in the breadth and depth of the Christian tradition and brings that into conversation with everyday life. Over the course of four years students read the Old and New Testaments and then immerse themselves in Christian history and theology. Details about the curriculum, reading materials and structure of the…

Retreats

We hold several one or two-day spiritual retreats on campus during the year, often with guest retreat leaders. Recent retreats include Christian Mysticism led by Fr. William Menninger, one of the monks who developed the meditative practice of Centering Prayer; and another on Contemplative Spirituality led by the Rev. Dr. Richard Peace, professor at Fuller Seminary.

Women’s ret…

Labyrinth

Our parish hall has a labyrinth, for the ancient spiritual practice of sacred, prayerful walking. The design is a full replica of the medieval pattern in Chartres Cathedral in France.

The experience of the prayerful path of the labyrinth can be described in many ways - a walking meditation, a crucible of change, a watering hole for the spirit and a mirror of the soul. There are …

Women's & Men's Ministries

Men's Ministry - Monthly Men's Dinners
On the fourth Wednesday of every month men of St. A's are all invited for dinner and casual conversation in Pierson Hall. Bring a dish or something to grill! Friends always welcome.

Women's Ministries

Annual Women's Retreat
Each spring the women of St. A’s spend a weekend at a spiritual retreat center where guest retreat-leaders guide them th…

Alcoholics Anonymous

We have AA meetings on campus twice a week: Fridays 7:30pm - an open, coed group in the Lower Parish Hall; Saturdays 11am - a closed women's group upstairs in the Saint Francis & Saint Clare room.