World Communion Sunday

Sunday, October 5, 10:00 AM, Sanctuary

Join us as we come to the Lord’s table with churches around the globe.  The service will include different languages, music and liturgy from different lands, and breads from many different cultures.

World Communion Sunday is on the first Sunday of October each year.  First adopted as a denominational practice in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.) in 1936, churches in other denominations were later invited to join.  It wasn’t until 1940, when the National Council of Churches extended the celebration to several churches around the world, that the practice became widespread.

The idea originated with Dr. Hugh Thompson Kerr, pastor at Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, in 1933.  Kerr first conceived the notion of World Communion Sunday during his year as moderator of the General Assembly in 1930. They dreamed of bringing churches together in a service of Christian unity to lift up the global Church and to remember that by virtue of our baptism, we are connected to a worldwide community.  Each congregation is connected to every other congregation, united in “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5).