you can mail in your pledge, give online, or text GIVE to (850) 403-6673.

Sunday 10:30 AM service streamed on Facebook Live or YouTube 

Click here to listen to last week's sermon.

Click here for guidelines for protocols during COVID-19 (masks, etc.)

In-Person service on Wednesday at 12:00 PM (no sign up required)

If you are interested in reading or serving as a greeter for either the 8:00 AM or 10:30 AM in-person services, please click here.

Our neighbors without homes are in great need of toiletries, including bars of soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, disposable razors, hand sanitizer, wash clothes, socks, and hand cream. Please click here for more information on how to help.

EPIC Book Club (via Zoom)

If you have a pastoral emergency, please call our pastoral care emergency line to speak directly with one of the priests: (850) 462-5137.

Holy Week Schedule:   

with Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar – Sign-up

Good Friday (April 2): 12 PM and 3 PM Good Friday liturgy – Sign-up

Easter Service Schedule: Sign-up

When signing up for Easter services, please make the sacrifice of only signing up for one service (the Easter Vigil counts as an Easter Service), so that we allow for as many individuals to worship in-person at Easter as safely possible.

For further essential information & guidelines, please click here.

The Easter Sunday program and egg hunt will be held at Shelley’s Space behind Episcopal Day School. Our guest storyteller will be Graybill Partington, a senior in the IB Program at Pensacola High School. Graybill, who has won numerous drama awards, will tell the resurrection story. After the story, children will hunt eggs and then gather for a closing prayer. Be sure and sign up if you have not done so!

Parents: Shelley’s Space is located across the street from the church and there is a walkway between the Currin Center and the Day School. Please bring your children across the street and a volunteer will help you as needed. You may pick your children up at the gate leading to Shelley’s Space. Children can bring their own Easter baskets, but we will have small baskets available for them as well. If it rains, we will have the children in the Parish Hall. Sign-up here (max 40 children).

For those who are with us on Zoom, Britton Lynn and Rudy will be with you to tell a story — these sessions begin at 9:30 AM. The meeting ID is 3205228708. Britton will let you in through the waiting room.

All "Rise Up" speakers are available to view via YouTube here.

Cows and Goats Still Tied!  

After the Goats and the Cows both held clear leads earlier in the game, the teams are tied at 24 and ½ with only minutes to play (until Easter Day)! If you have been on the fence about joining the fun, there is still time to get on the court and help the win for your favorite team! 

Just $80 will purchase an animal, and any amount will support Episcopal Relief & Development providing animals and training to families in poverty. This year 1/3 of the money raised will go for COVID19 Relief Kits also. If you attend in-person services, look for the pink “March Madness” envelopes and forms in the pews. You may also simply mail a check (payable to Christ Church indicating which animal and its name) to Christ Church, 18 West Wright St., Pensacola, FL 32501. For your convenience, you may also pay online here (select "outreach" from the drop down menu on the giving page).

Don’t forget to name your animal and you may snag a prize for the funniest name. The winners will be announced and prizes awarded to the clever donors. Please email Honey Harris with your choice of animal and name given in order to be included in the naming competition! For questions, you may contact Honey Harris.

Wednesday, April 7 ~ 3:00 PM (via Zoom)

The Epic Book Club is meeting via Zoom until we can meet again in person. Please click here to be added to the email list for updates and a link to the Zoom meeting, and/or join our Facebook group (EPIC Bookclub of Christ Episcopal Church). We meet on the first Wednesday of the month at 3:00 PM. The April book discussion will be Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson.

The fastest growing religious identification in surveys is "none" and a second major group identifies as "spiritual, but not religious." The most notable impact of this trend on organized religious groups has been a steadily declining membership. Diana Butler Bass, a scholar of religious studies, religious scholar and Episcopalian, gives insight and a "hope-filled vision for a renewed faith that stays true to the real message of Jesus in her book, Christianity After Religion.  Beginning on Sunday, April 11 at 9:00 AM through Zoom, this class will explore Ms. Bass' vision for deepening one's faith for our present time. For more information, contact one of the facilitators, Dick Hooper or David Starling.

Co-chaired by Father Michael, Christ Church is an active participant in the local J.U.S.T. Pensacola (Justice United Seeking Transformation in Pensacola) organization. As in 2020, Christ Church members, along with those from 23 other congregations, will attend a Nehemiah Action meeting via Zoom on Monday, May 3 to share with local leaders our concerns and to offer suggestions for improvement. There is power in numbers! Leaders do listen!  

The process started with a number of small group meetings to determine the most critical issues on which to work this year, followed by committees researching solutions. The Nehemiah Action Assembly is the culmination of the annual process to present strategies and make requests to community leaders. This year J.U.S.T Pensacola members have been focusing on the large number of arrests and incarceration of teens and the lack of affordable housing. There are over 30 J.U.S.T. Pensacola Network Members of Christ Church who will be inviting parishioners to join this Zoom event. You don’t need to wait for a call; if you are interested in attending, please contact Honey Harris.

Each week our worship service is enhanced with beautiful fresh flowers. The altar flowers are a memorial, a thanksgiving for an anniversary, a birthday, a new birth, or a thanksgiving for God's blessings. The donation is listed in the weekly bulletin. Forms to participate in this ministry are available here.

Christ Church is here for you. There are many ministries to love and support the people who are the church. We continue to support one another, especially during this pandemic. If you are interested in assisting with staying connected to our church family, please email Rev. Katie or call her at the Parish Office, 850-432-5115. It is easy to feel alone or disconnected right now, so reach out to one of the priests or someone at the church to say hello. Contact Rev. Katie if you or anyone you know has any needs. If you have a pastoral emergency, please call our pastoral care emergency line to speak directly with one of the priests: (850) 462-5137.

I. For Those in Need. Including the poor, the unemployed, the lonely, the hungry, the homeless, the abused, the sick and dying, and those who grieve. For those suffering in body, mind, or spirit—including Members: Nancy Stafford, Lyn Harris, Ruth Harris, the Young family, Bruce & Meg Melvin, Laura Wolfersperger, Dee Whisenhunt Family & Friends: Steve Cormon, Rob Wilmer, Kelly, Trisha Bothwell, Nicole Keating. 

II. For Those in the Armed Forces, especially—Erik Barton, Stewart Bova, Jared Burgess, Danica Roark Domokos, Sam Gaston, Robert Geiger, William Harper, Harry B. Harris, Benjamin Jensen, Joshua Justin, Art Lantigua, Hillary Leonard, Ben Mathis, Kathryn Martin, Sean McAbee, Julie McGill, Christopher Patterson, Kyle Roberson, Peter Shelton, Evan Valdyke, Wesley Valdyke; and all those who serve this nation in harm’s way.

III. For All who have Died. May their souls and the souls of all the departed rest in peace—Jackie Vickrey.

IV. In Thanksgiving. For those in our parish celebrating birthdays and anniversaries.

To submit a prayer request, email prayer-request@christ-church.net and let us know if this is for the public prayer list or for our confidential intercessory prayer list. You may also fill out the prayer request form online at our website (found on the Pastoral Care page under “Ministries”). All published prayer requests on this list also go on the confidential intercessory prayer list. Please note that names remain on the prayer list for 4 weeks and on our confidential intercessory prayer list until you ask to be removed. Please resubmit your request if you or a loved one needs to remain on the list. This helps keep our prayers current. Names in bold print indicate new additions to the prayer list.