Photo above: Our active Youth program includes this musical ensemble, "Leap of Faith," seen here practicing in February, 2008.
Sunday Schedule
- 8:00 a.m.
Quiet Traditional Service - 10:00 a.m.
Lively Contemporary Service
Child care provided. - 11:00 a.m.
Sunday School for children to ages 0-11. (Sept - May) - 11:15 a.m. Social Hour Come and join us for refreshments after worship, in the Great Hall!
- 12:00 Noon
Misa en Español (Spanish-language worship)
- 5:00 p.m.
Youth Group (ages 11-16) every first & third Sunday
YOUTH Calendar
Click here to see the June events.
COTA Youth Summer Car Wash!
Watch this space for details about the next car wash coming this summer!
We need you for the 22nd AIDS WALK Delaware on
September 28
A sign-up sheet for the Walk is on the Sign-Up Table in the Great Hall. We need walkers who are willing to work to get money pledges to support the work of AIDS Delaware in the prevention of this horrible disease and support and care for those already infected by HIV or living with AIDS. On the 28th registration begins at noon and the wa;k starts promptly at 2:00.
Adopt-A-Student Backpacks
The children of our community served by the Adopt A Family Program of the Claymont Community Center need our help with school supplies for the coming school year. If you can donate any of these supplies, please bring them to Sunday worship and place them in the baskets in front of the pulpit. We’ll collect school supplies all through the month of July and bless the whole lot on the last Sunday of the month before we take them to the Community Center.
School Supplies Needed
1. No. 2 pencils
2. Pens (blue and black)
3. Student scissors
4. Glue stick
5. White glue
6. Crayons
7. Markers (washable)
8. Colored pencils
9. Pencil box or bag
10. Pencil sharpener
11. Erasers
12. Ruler (plastic—the wooden ones with metal edges are dangerous)
13. Composition books
14. Wide rule notebook paper
15. Spiral notebooks
16. Pocket folders (multi-colored to help with organization) 1 to 1.5 inch binders
Votive Eucharist for Labor
Sunday, August 31,
8:00 a.m. & 10:00 a.m.
Please join us as we will celebrate the gift of human labor and our Lord's solidarity with laboring people.
Welcome!
Whatever your background, you have a place with us. We are a congregation drawn from many ethnic, theological, economic, and political backgrounds. We are young and old, single and coupled, poor and rich, conservative and liberal, catholic and protestant, native born and immigrant, white and people of color, gay and heterosexual. We truly are a house of prayer for all people!
The Church of the Ascension is blessed with an historic church building and an active congregation that emphasizes ministry to young people. Our warm and vibrant worship blends the Episcopal tradition with contemporary spirituality. We are active in the broader life of our community and support numerous outreach projects.
Please join us as we worship on Sundays at 10:00 a.m.
Our order of worship is drawn from the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the United States. The Book of Common Prayer is made up entirely of direct quotes and paraphrases of Holy Scripture. Our music is drawn from a variety of traditional and contemporary praise sources. Our hymns and songs are our prayers set to music. During worship, everyone present is encouraged to share Christ’s peace and to receive the bread and wine of communion. We believe these actions of community inclusion are fundamental to Christian worship. At 10:00 a.m., we join hands with those around us for the Our Father, another act of community inclusion. Also at 10:00 a.m., children of all ages are encouraged to participate as fully as possible in our worship and are typically invited to join the presiding priest at the altar for the prayer of consecration, which is the focal point of our Sunday worship. The laying on of hands and annointing for healing is available at all of our worship services.
We also worship on Sundays at 8:00 a.m. and, in Spanish, at 12:00 Noon.
Our 8:00 a.m. service is an hour-long spoken service. Our 12:00 noon, Misa en Español, or Spanish-language worship includes singing.
To learn more, visit us or give us a call:
Episcopal Church of the Ascension
3717 Philadelphia Pike, Claymont, Delaware
(302) 798-6683