ORDINARY TIME

A Season of Growth

After Pentecost Sunday, we entered the longest season of the church calendar, "Ordinary Time." The word "ordinary" in Ordinary Time does not mean mundane, but rather “not seasonal,” as in ordinal. However, we do find the mundane, the average, the ordinary makes up most of the six-month season of Ordinary time. Most of the church seasons are like mountains and valleys, high highs and low lows. Ordinary Time is stabilizing. As Eugene Peterson put it, it is “a long obedience in the same direction.”

In Ordinary Time, we learn how to live and find God in the everyday-ness of life. We find in Ordinary Time exactly that– the ordinariness of human life. We refer to Ordinary Time as the great green growing season because, in this months-long season, we recognize that “it is what we do routinely, not what we do rarely, that delineates our character,” as Joan Chittister puts it.

Ordinary Time is made up of the stuff of Real Life; the question for us is, will we find God in the ordinariness of it all?

WAYS TO ENGAGE

  • Engagement Guide

    Within this guide you will find themes and descriptions, as well as sample practices you can participate in yourself or as a group or family in order to engage in multiple facets of what this season means for us.

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  • Serve on Sunday

    One of the simplest ways to dive into the rhythms of ordinary time is through regularly volunteering in our church body. There are opportunities to serve with kids, hospitality, worship, and more!

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  • Connect with our partners

    There are opportunities to serve alongside Immanuel’s partners in a variety of different ways throughout this season.

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COMMUNITY HAPPENINGS

Have you joined the Community Happenings Message Board? Members of our Connect Team and congregation plan a variety of opportunities to connect with one another–Backyard Movie Night, Men's Disc Golf Tournament, and more! To find out about these and other events, join the group using the link below…