EVENTS

FAMILY MINISTRY

Family Advent Night

Friday, November 14 | 5:30-7 p.m.

Kick off the Advent season with an evening of fun and worship for the whole family. Everyone is invited on Friday, November 14 from 5:30-7 p.m. We’ll have dinner, music and a hot chocolate bar for dessert. You’ll also leave with a some practical and creative ideas to help your family celebrate Advent at home.

Confirmation

Sunday, November 16

On Sunday, November 16, we will celebrate  confirmation at St. Andrew’s. If you are currently in the Newcomers’ Class or have completed it in the past and would like to be confirmed, please contact Jessie Smith no later than Tuesday, November 11.

GiG Thanksgiving Celebration

Tuesday, November 18

On Tuesday, November 18, St. Andrew’s is hosting a Thanksgiving celebration for those who attend GiG and we need your help!

We are in need of 24 pies (apple, pecan or pumpkin) for the celebration. They can be homemade or store bought and dropped off at the church between Sunday, November 16 and Tuesday, November 18. Please sign up and select which type of pie you will bring via the button below.

Thanksgiving Service

Thursday, November 27 | 10 a.m.

Our annual Thanksgiving service will be at 10 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, November 27. Children are welcome, but there are no children’s classes for this service.

WOMEN’S MINISTRY

Christmas Brunch

Saturday, December 6  |  10–11:30 a.m.  |  Commons

You are invited to join us for the St. Andrew’s women’s ministry Christmas Brunch on Saturday, December 6 at 10 a.m. Women are asked to bring one of the following for a local food pantry:

• Canned meat
• Canned fish
• Canned fruit
• Nut butters 

Register to attend by clicking on the button below. You’ll also have the option to sign up to bring a brunch dish during registration.

EARLY CHILDHOOD

Nativity Photos

Sunday, December 7

Simple costumes will be available for children to dress up as their favorite nativity character for individual photos. If your child isn’t in an early childhood class but is birth through pre-k age, you are invited to bring them to the early childhood area at the beginning of each service for our photo time.

WESTERN HILLS ELEMENTARY

Christmas Celebration

Thursday, December 11 | 5-8 p.m.

On Thursday, December 11, St. Andrew’s will host its second annual Christmas Celebration for Western Hills Elementary School. This is St. Andrew’s biggest volunteer event of the year and the ONLY time we get to welcome Western Hills families into our space. The evening will end with a Christmas concert by the Western Hills students that everyone is invited to! 

Because of the overwhelming response by Western Hills families to the Pumpkin Patch, we are concerned about space and ask that all volunteers be adults or high schoolers. Sign up to volunteer using the link below.

For more information, contact Amy Rypkema, Mary Millsap or Beka LeMaster.

Perspectives

Sundays, January 11–May 3, 2026  |  5-8 p.m.  |  Commons

Perspectives is an awe-inspiring comprehensive course that has profoundly impacted hundreds of thousands of students during the past 45+ years. From Genesis to the prophets, Jesus to the early Church, and St. Augustine to the present, students learn how God moves, how the global Church responds, and the remaining task of world evangelization.

Perspectives isn’t a course solely about world missions. It’s a study program rooted in Scripture clarifying each believer’s remarkable opportunity to co-labor with God in his global purpose.

Perspectives on the World Christian Movement is a 15-lesson discipleship class designed to help believers from all walks of life regardless of age, gender or vocation learn how they can get threaded into God’s story of redeeming people from every tribe, tongue and nation to himself. 

The spring semester of Perspectives begins on January 11 at 5 p.m. in the Commons. The cost, including dinner each night, is $275/person ($100 discount for the first 20 St. Andrew’s people who register using the code SAC100-025196). Sign up in 2025 and get an additional $30 off with the code EBIRD-024585. Register via the QR code or the link on our website.

Childcare vouchers are available by request by emailing Beka LeMaster.

The first session is free to try out, but they do ask that you sign up so they can have an accurate headcount.