Serving the common good.

Worship is more than any one piece or part. It is a holistic event, bringing together music, photography, video, readings, reflections, questions, activities, song, and crafted each week into an event by our Worship Leaders.

By weaving together different components, a worship service serves the whole—the common good—and offers a shared emotional experience. Each worship component has its own relational purpose: a particular reason for connecting us to one another and That Which Is Larger Than Us.

Energy moves in us, between us, and around us. It’s as real as the flesh-and-blood people sitting in front of us: we’re energy beings. Or, as writer Martha Beck so eloquently puts it, “our bodies are electrical devices made of meat.”

Worship Leaders are in relationship with that energy as directly as we’re in relationship with the people singing, moving, and praying in our seats.

Let me begin by thanking our Worship Leaders for your commitment to Eastrose. Your willingness to work with speakers to insure the entire service has continuity, to gently prod the minister when she is off schedule, and to be part of the most important program of the week – especially as we are trying new approaches to several parts of Sunday worship – is beyond commendable. Our worship life helps Eastrose deepen our relationships with one another.

Rev. Robin Landerman Zucker