Honoring the diversity of paths to God, Chestnut Hill United Church is a faith community with open hearts and open minds.
Engaging Worship. Our worship regularly has people speaking openly their prayers of joy, excitement, pain, and longing. The diverse and festive music in our worship makes our prayers and participation deeper. Powerful preaching draws us both inward toward spirit and outward toward the vibrancy and intangibles of the world around us. Innovative and new as well as traditional and meaningful rituals make our worship creative, embodied and spiritually relevant.
Environmental and Social Advocacy. Our outreach to situations of environmental and social need includes participation in the following projects:
POWER Interfaith: Pennsylvanians Organized to Witness, Power, and Rebuild - an interfaith organization working to promote systemic change in our city in the areas of good jobs, great education, immigrant justice and ending gun violence.
We'd love to have you join us in this. The life of the spirit might include solitude, but it is not solitary. We grow together.
We take the Bible seriously, but not literally.
We value the life and teachings of Jesus. We are called to act for justice, to honor the Earth, and to trust the transforming power of God. We are a living sanctuary that ignites the inner spirit to participate in God's ongoing creation.