April 2026 Worship Schedule
IN-PERSON & FACEBOOK LIVESTREAM AT 11:00AM

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🥖🍷 = We will celebrate Communion / Lord’s Supper
 
April 2: Maundy Thursday
Giving Up 'Payment' for Wild Purification
Exodus 12:1-4, 11-14; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; John 13:1-17, 31b-35; John 18:1—19:30
Thursday at 7PM, starting in the Gathering Place and moving to the Sanctuary.

April 3: Good Friday - It Can't Be Carried Alone
Friday at 11 AM, we will gather in the Sanctuary for a grief ritual.
Decorating the sanctuary for Resurrection Sunday will follow at 12 PM.

April 5: Resurrection of the Lord - Living Into the the Great Re-Wilding
Jeremiah 31:1-6; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; John 20:1–18
We will welcome new members into this congregation and baptize friends into this covenant community of God.

April 12: Breakfast Church - Living Into the Wild Table
1 Peter 1:17-23; Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19; Luke 24:13-35
Our regular worship service will be in the Gathering Place, as the Deacons lead us in an agape feast service. Come hungry!

April 18: Pet Remembrance Service
Revelation 7:16-17; Psalm 23; Colossians 1:15-17
Saturday at 11 AM in the Sanctuary, followed by a reception in the Gathering Place.

April 19: Season of Easter - Living Into Wild Tangibility
1 Peter 1:3-9; Psalm 16; John 20:19-31

April 23: Evening Book Group
At 6PM at the Apessos home (361 Maple Avenue), we will discuss A Psalm for the Wild-Built (2021) and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (2022) by Becky Chambers. Both are available as audiobooks on Hoopla. We will enjoy a simple potluck dinner with discussion to follow.

​April 26: Season of Easter - Living Into the Wild Gate
1 Peter 2:19-25; Psalm 23; John 10:1-10 ​

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Breaking the Pots 
The transition to Spring is never simple in Pittsburgh. As I write this, we’ve just received another dusting of snow after days of teasing 70-degree warmth. Faith is often like that—fluctuating, growing warmer and colder as we navigate the seasons of our lives. 

Throughout Lent, we have been doing the hard work of "deconstruction." We’ve identified the aspects of our faith that we need to set aside: purity culture, the need for problem-solving, the idol of certainty, the barrier of transaction, the clinical nature of diagnosis, the weight of despair, the violence of empire, and the logic of payment. These are the pots that have kept our faith rootbound, preventing us from truly stretching out into the wild earth. 

Our recent new member class dove into the book Being Presbyterian in a Dysvangelical America: A Guide to Reclaiming the Good News of God's Grace by Ted V. Foote Jr. and P. Alex Thornburg. I—and I think everyone who participated in that group—would highly recommend it. 

The authors help clarify that what many of us consider “traditional” theology in America is, in many ways, a mere blip in the church’s long history. The pop theology of televangelists and the rigid frameworks of modern "tame" Christianity have reconstructed church history in a way that limits us. It keeps us in those small pots. 

Followers of Christ have always wrestled with being embedded in cultures of destruction, like that of the American Empire. Yet, we have also always tried to stay true to the ideals and ways of the "Wild God." While the Church has certainly made its share of mistakes, we remain reformed and always reforming. 

As we prepare for Resurrection Sunday, and eventually for Ascension and Pentecost, we are shifting our focus. We are moving from giving up the "tame" to living into the wild. We will seek to reconstruct a healthier, more vibrant faith through the lenses of the Table, Tangibility, the Gate, Entanglement, Connection, the Flesh of God, and Diversity. 

If Lent was a season of breaking down the artificial fences, Easter is the time for letting the "True" grow wild. Let’s see what happens when we finally let the Gardener take the lead. 

Peace, 
Rev. Jason A. Dauer 

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Worship at Edgewood

Sunday Morning Worship is held
at 11:00AM in the Sanctuary
September through May,
and at 10:00AM in the Gathering Place
​June-August.

Worship services at First Presbyterian Church of Edgewood vary in style from Sunday to Sunday.  Most weeks, worshipers will experience what we call "Classic" worship -- a traditional Presbyterian Reformed order of worship with piano accompaniment and choir music leadership.  Once per month, "Emerging" worship takes place.  This service, while still focusing on the 5 tenents of Presbyterian worship -- gathering around, proclaiming, responding to, sealing upon our hearts, and bearing into the world God's Word -- is presented in a relaxed atmosphere.  A screen is placed in the front of the sanctuary, a worship ensemble of mixed instruments accompanies song leaders, and God's Word is presented in a multitude of ways.  Worshipers in this service will experience a wide variety of presentations, from reader's theater to VBS kids singing, choral presentations to standard sermons.

To see video of some previous Emerging Worship services, visit
​ http://fpceworshipservice.blogspot.com.

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