Worship & Music
Honest, engaging & meaningful
Worship is the most important thing we do as a community.
Worship connects your faith with your life and identity. Because faith doesn’t stop when you leave the building, we want you to leave worship each week with a clear understanding of how the Biblical lesson is relevant to your daily life.
WORSHIP SCHEDULE
Please see worship information on the right side of this page for worship options during COVID-19.
Labor Day through mid-May
Traditional Service 8:30 and 9:45 am
We experience God’s grace and love in Jesus Christ through traditional hymns and liturgy. Relevant, thought-provoking preaching strengthens us, and the beautiful music of the pipe organ and choirs inspires us.
Contemporary Service 11:00 am
In this informal service of praise and worship, Augustana’s Celebration Band plays a variety of musical styles, emphasizing contemporary Christian music. Holy Communion is celebrated every week.
MUSIC
Music plays a vital role in our worship experience, and Augustana has a long tradition of quality music. Our traditional worship is enriched by four vocal choirs, two handbell choirs, and our Glatter-Gotz/Rosales pipe organ. Our Celebration Service features praise music led by the Celebration Band.
Augustana presents several concerts by professional ensembles and soloists throughout the year.
Online Worship
Online/On-Demand worship videos are posted by 8:00 am each Sunday. All are welcome to join us for worship at whatever time works for you.
Augustana offers two styles of online worship.
Traditional worship includes traditional music and liturgy, inspiring message, congregational hymns, and blessing. Videos are posted at augustana.com under New Ways to Gather/COVID-19, Augustana Facebook page or YouTube channel.
Contemporary worship includes praise music provided by the Celebration Band, relevant message, and blessing. Videos are posted on the Augustana Facebook page or YouTube channel.
To access all of our daily educational and devotional videos, select New Ways to Gather/COVID-19. Each day of the week is dedicated to a specific category. The four most recent videos are listed at the top of the page and the remainder of the page is organized by topic and day of the week. After 28 days the website videos are archived by playlist (topics) on our YouTube channel.
Sunday—Online worship
Monday—Music & Meditation
Tuesday—Faith & Learning
Wednesday—Inspiration & Devotion
Thursday—Community & Compassion
Friday—Engage & Reflect
Saturday—Prayer & Contemplation
Stop by our Information Center to pick up a Welcome Packet and talk to one of our knowledgeable hosts.