Worship Service: Covenant Sunday—Anabaptism at 500
2025-11-09 10:00 - 11:15 (America/Chicago) | LMC & Streaming
We’ll celebrate our annual covenant membership renewal, committing to our shared convictions and covenant to our life together of care, discernment, forgiveness, and accountability. This will be our fourth worship service celebrating 500 years of Anabaptism. Pastor Richard will preach on 1 Corinthians 11: 17-26.
He writes, “This week we engage in several rituals as a community, including our monthly celebration of communion. While nearly every Christian group observes communion in some form, many have very different understandings of this ritual. How do we as Anabaptists understand communion?”

Worship Service: Iraqi Kurdistan Presentation
2025-11-23 10:00 - 11:15 | LMC & Streaming
Pastor Nathan will share about his recent Community Peacemaker Teams delegation trip to Iraqi Kurdistan. His text will be Revelation 21: 1-5.

First Sunday of Advent
2025-11-30 10:00 - 11:15 | LMC & Streaming
We begin a 6-week Advent worship series called “Be Amazed!” Our theme this first week is “Be amazed: Hope in the furnace.” Pastor Barb will preach on Daniel 3: 1, 8-30. She writes, “This is a story about power – an earthly ruler seeking power set against the power of God. This is also a story about presence. We worship a God who will walk through fire with us. In these dark winter days, we claim hope in this.”
We invite you to come to worship 5-10 minutes early during Advent to hear our young people provide prelude music.

Second Sunday of Advent
2025-12-07 10:00 - 11:15 | LMC & Streaming
We continue our 6-week Advent worship series. Our theme this week is “Be amazed: Peace in the valley of bones.” Pastor Richard will preach on Ezekiel 37: 1–14. He writes, “As Ezekiel looks over a scene of utter devastation, God asks him a seemingly absurd question, ‘Can these bones live?’ God amazes us by demonstrating that the answer to this question is ‘Yes, they can!'”

Congregational Meeting & Potluck
2025-12-07 11:30 - 13:30 | Lombard Mennonite Church, 528 E Madison, Lombard, IL, 60148
Adults will gather for a congregational meeting in the sanctuary, in lieu of their Christian Formation classes. (Children and youth will meet for their Sunday school classes as usual.) After the meeting, we’ll enjoy a delicious potluck in the Fellowship Hall together!

Third Sunday of Advent
2025-12-14 10:00 - 11:15 | LMC & Streaming
Our Advent series continues. Our theme this week is “Be amazed: Joy in the desert.” Pastor Barb will preach on Isaiah 55: 1–13.
She writes, “After years of longing, the view of things for the people of God risks becoming constricted. Their hope diminishes, making it increasingly difficult for them to see past the present moment. Isaiah is tasked with relaying to them a vision of God’s provision and promise. His message has an expansive quality and effect. Amazement does this. God’s covenant is everlasting (55:3, 13), and God’s ‘ways higher than your ways’ (55:9).”
During fellowship time, we’ll enjoy monkey bread prepared by our Venture Club.

Fourth Sunday of Advent
2025-12-21 10:00 - 11:15 | LMC & Streaming
Our theme this week is “Be amazed: Love comes down.” Pastor Richard will preach on John 1: 1–18. We won’t hold any adult Christian Formation classes, but children and youth will hold a rehearsal for the Christmas pageant on December 24.

Christmas Eve Service & Fellowship
2025-12-24 18:30 - 20:30 | Lombard Mennonite Church, 528 E Madison, Lombard, IL, 60148
In addition to all the wonderful LMC Christmas Eve traditions—such as lighting candles while singing Silent Night—this year you won’t want to miss the Christmas pageant! LMC children and youth will share the Christmas story. Following the service, we’ll enjoy a lovely time of fellowship and feasting on delicious holiday snacks. Please bring cookies and/or hors d’oeuvres to share with your LMC family. Join us at 6:30pm on December 24 for a time to remember the true meaning of Christmas.

Taizé Worship Service
2025-12-26 19:00 - 20:00 | Lombard Mennonite Church, 528 E Madison, Lombard, IL, 60148
Join us for a contemplative worship service in the style of Taizé. This simple form of worship invites worshipers to sit in the presence of God through quiet repeated music with simple lyrics, silence, and prayer. Taizé services will take place in the sanctuary on the fourth Friday of each month.

First Sunday of Christmas
2025-12-28 10:00 - 11:15 | LMC & Streaming
Our theme this week is “Be amazed: God Among Us.” Pastor Nathan will preach on Matthew 2:1-12. We won’t hold any Christian Formation classes.

Epiphany Sunday
2026-01-04 10:00 - 11:15 | LMC & Streaming
We’ll enjoy a service of lessons and carols, and celebrate communion together. Sunday school classes will resume.
