Prayers &Meals
Prayer List
Click here to view and pray over our community's prayers and to add your own to the prayer wall→
Meal train form
Just had a baby? Grieving a recent loss? Preparing for or recovering from surgery? Your LOS community is ready to nourish you in your time of hardship.
Community Life
These structures will take the place of Care Cells to offer a more wholistic approach to our Land of the Sky Community.
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We are starting to ease into gathering back on campus. For now the opportunities are small, as we are being COVID-careful. Would you like to join us on the lanai for a small gathered Sunday Morning Worship Watch Party? Click here to sign up.
Our Liturgical Year
An overview of how we share in the sacred liturgical year and an explainer of commonly used terms here at LOS.
The Liturgical Year of Events
Advent (Happy New YEar!)
Advent Small Groups - Advent Calendars - Simple Gifts - The Christmas Fund: UCC Special Offering - Collection of gently used toys for the Children’s Home - Church Christmas Party - Christmas Poinsettias
Christmas
Christmas Eve Service - Collection of items for new parents and babies for BEAR Closet -
Epiphany
Star Words or Chalk Blessings - Small Groups
Lent
Ash Wednesday - Lenten Small Groups - Lenten Devotionals - One Great Hour of Sharing: UCC Special Offering - Holy Week - Easter Lilies
Easter
Easter Service - Easter Breakfast- Easter Egg Hunt at 15 Overbrook Place - Worship Outside the Walls - Blessing of the Mothers
Pentecost
Land of the Sky UCC’s Birthday - Strengthen the Church: UCC Special Offering
Ordinary Time
Worship in the Woods (August) - Kick off Sunday (September) - Neighbors In Need: UCC Special Offering - World Communion Sunday - Blue Ridge Pride (October) - Annual Congregational Meeting - Commitment Sunday - Worship Outside the Walls (Nov) - Thanksgiving
“For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.”
Land of the Sky UCC Dictionary
Have you been scratching your head, wondering what certain LOS terms mean? (Like LOS = Land Of the Sky) Well, you’re in luck! Common things we say around here:
Golden Ticket: the volunteer sign up sheet for the 3 volunteer sessions a year
WOW: Worship Outside the Walls. Twice a year we forgo worship in the sanctuary and instead serve outside the walls in our larger community.
WIW: Worship in the Woods, our annual August church camping trip culminates in Sunday’s worship service in the woods with brunch to follow.
CONNECT Leaders: Every partner in the community is assigned to a CONNECT Leader who provides general check-ins throughout the year and relays information from our leadership and staff.
Ministry Teams: What we call the various groups of leadership that are formed to help guide our decisions, ministry, and the covenants of the church.
Threshold Partner: What we call folks who “join” the church. You’re a partner in our community. Read more here.
Friend of the Church: Folks that aren’t quite ready to partner with the church but commit their friendship instead.
Narthex: Ok - this may just be me (Sarahbeth) but I’d never heard the church foyer called this before!
Lanai: What Sarahbeth calls the covered porch off the Fellowship Hall
Share in the Feast Sunday: 1st Sunday of the month, during communion, we bring canned goods for manna food bank
UCC Special Offerings: We participate in 4 special offerings for the wider UCC church every year. Special Mission Offerings sponsor vital ministries that bring hope to people in the U.S. and around the world. The UCC has identified four areas where critical human needs exist: in places lacking health and educational resources and/or where disaster has struck; within systems of injustice which oppress daily life and opportunity; in the lives of church leaders without sufficient resources to live with dignity; in the nurture of youth and congregations just beginning their lives of faith.
Spiritual Formation aka Sunday School
Godly Play aka Sunday School for littles
OWL: Our Whole Lives - a comprehensive sexuality curriculum published by the UU & UCC wider church
Prayground: a space for quiet and contemplative play for kids in the sanctuary
Time With Kids: Often called the Children’s Sermon in other churches, this is the message crafted for children in our worship service
DAY-Time: Once a month our 2nd-5th graders leave the sanctuary and go to DAYtime following a Time With Kids. DAYtime is led by two adults & offers a time of fellowship & fun for our upper elementary-aged kids.