Past Events

Make a Difference in the Life of a Child - The Deacons are sponsoring a Christmas project to provide gift cards for each of the children at The Nurturing Place Family Shelter in Jersey City. To help sponsor a child, take a star, write your name on the list posted here, and make a donation of $5, $10 or $15 to Old Bergen Deacons. Our goal is to provide $15 cards to each of the 47 children at the shelter,…

December 24th Morning Worship - Our 11:00 AM worship service on December 24th will be an informal worship experience around tables in the church parlor. Coffee, hot chocolate and Christmas cookies will be served. Come join us for a family-like gathering and worship.  Christmas Eve Candlelight Service - We will hold our Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at 7:00 PM on December 24th. The service will be both in-person and live streaming. It will be a service of Lessons and Carols…

Children’s Christmas Party - The Sunday school teachers will host a children’s Christmas Party on Friday evening, December 15th at 7:00 PM. There will be crafts, singing, refreshments and a visit from a surprise guest!!

We welcome the Rev. Melanie Marsh to the pulpit on Sunday, December 31st, at our 11:00 AM worship service. Melanie was a summer intern in 2013 while she was a student at Princeton Theological Seminary. Rev. Marsh is now pastor at Riviera Presbyterian Church in Miami. We are pleased to welcome her back and look forward to hearing the good Word that she will share!

This year Ash Wednesday (the mark of the beginning of Lent) falls on Valentine’s Day. We will hold our Ash Wednesday service in the church sanctuary at 7:00 PM. During that worship experience participants receive ashes created from the previous year’s palms of Palm Sunday in the form of a cross. I wonder if this year we should mark our foreheads with hearts instead?! I think we will keep the cross motif. But as we repeat the words, “From ashes…

From February 14 through Palm Sunday, March 24th we encourage you to explore your own practices of reflection and prayer. You are invited to join us for our weekly Wednesday evening Bible Study classes that includes prayer and song. The class takes place from 7:00 - 8:00 PM in the Chapel of Peace. You may also want to join us for Midday Prayers every Wednesday at noon. It is a time of prayer and support by means of a conference…

Palm Sunday is March 24th this year. The service is a celebratory worship experience that begins with a processional of children waving palm branches and concludes with inspirational and upbeat music as we remember Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem amid throngs of cheering children and adults.