As part of our covenant, each member pledges to gather regularly with the church to worship God, share the Good News, and continually examine its implications for one's life. Corporate worship, ideally, allows us to praise God's love and seek God's presence as children of God. Because worship is a communal of gratitude and love for God our creator, redeemer, and sustainer, it also allows us to gather with one another as sisters and brothers in Christ and celebrate our community.
All persons are participants in the worship services.
Worship is also where we gain knowledge, wisdom, and spiritual strength to carry out our discipleship in the world. To facilitate this at Oakhurst, we try to worship so as to involve the whole person head and heart, thoughts and emotions through sermons, music, dance, drama, and other means. The goal is to provide opportunities in worship both to receive sustenance and to offer our gifts and abilities for service. For the most part, the church follows a three-year calendar of Scripture readings known as a lectionary which is designed for people to hear a wide variety of biblical passages. Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, and Pentecost.