Two services: An invitation to participate
Beginning Sunday, Feburary 8, Solid Rock will host two Sunday morning worship gatherings at 9:00 am and 10:30 am.
We have reached the point where our space limitations and the growing group of people who call Solid Rock home necessitate the addition of a second service. Here are a few data points that help demonstrate the space limitations we are experiencing.
Our average worship attendance in 2025 was 255, including kids.
If we limit our focus to the last quarter of 2025, that average was 268.
Our average weekly attendance in 2025 was a 24% increase from 2024 and a 61% increase from 2023.
We are grateful for the ways that God is adding to our number! In the midst of our growth, we want to ensure we stay true to our purpose: To participate in the restorative work of God.
You might be asking…
What will common meal look like when we move to two services?
We are considering options. We will plan to forego common meal in March and April (Easter Sunday is April 5). This will allow us some time to make the change to two services and decide on the best course of action for common meal.
How will this change our family’s morning?
If you have flexibility, would you consider attending the 9 am service? Our hope is that the two-service format will creates space for volunteers to serve for one gathering and attending the main service for the other.
What are my kids supposed to do if I serve in one service and then participate in the main gathering during the other service time?
Great question! Your kids are welcome to attend both kids classes. Yes, the content will be the same, but repetition isn't so bad, and the teachers will often be different. (Kids will need to be checked out in between services to allow second service teachers to prep.) Perhaps your kids are in upper elementary, and they'd like to attend the main gathering before or after attending SRK. That works too! It's also understandable if you have littles that still nap, and attending two services isn't feasible in this season.
Solid Rock Church’s purpose is to participate in the restorative work of God. That work is God’s, not ours. But God, in his wisdom and mercy, has invited our participation.
We not only want to respond to God’s invitation to participate; we also want to imitate God by extending that invitation to one another to participate in what he’s doing.
With all this in view, I want to extend three specific invitation to each of us to participate
Would you consider giving financially as a way of participating in the restorative work God is doing here at Solid Rock? If you give regularly, perhaps you’d take a fresh look at what financial participation might look like in 2026.
Second, would you consider offering your time and creative energy to participate in the restorative work God is doing in our Sunday morning gatherings? Perhaps you’re feeling led to serve as a teacher in our kids or youth ministries. Or perhaps you have the desire to help create a welcoming environment by preparing coffee or assisting with the audio/visual elements of our gatherings.
Third, would you consider praying regularly for this church? What might participation in God’s restorative work look like for you and for your family?
All are forms of participation with the God who creates, who restores, whose love makes possible our discovery of wholeness. That means that time spent in prayer or service, money invested in the church’s ministry, bears fruit in ways we might not see immediately. In fact, there’s fruit that we might never see in our lifetimes, whether because the fruit comes after we’re gone or in another part of the world in an unfolding story we won’t know this side of eternity.
We’re grateful for the ways that God is working to heal and restore those who call Solid Rock home, and we’re eager to see how this transition to two services makes space for others to experience his healing, restorative work.
God our Creator, we are what you have made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works You have prepared for us. By baptism, we are members of your body, the Church. Show us, we pray, how we might participate with you in your restorative work.