Churches

Cheney Congregational Church

Greetings, Cheney friends! Our congregation continues to worship online for the time being. We have live Sunday morning services on Zoom at 10 a.m. followed by a virtual coffee hour. You can request a Zoom link through our website, http://www.cheneycongregational.org and you can also find copies of the sermons on our website.  

During Lent our sermon series will be “Annual Spirituals.” Each year we go to the doctor for our annual physical to see how our physical health is, but how often do we get our spiritual health checked out? This Lenten series will help us take a close look at our spiritual health as we seek to move out of a season of unhealth and toxicity and move into a season of health and restoration. We’ll focus on our heart, eyes, ears, tongue and lungs to see what they reveal about our spiritual health and to see how they can either foster or hinder a healthy spiritual connection with God and neighbor. We hope you’ll join us! 

We are also hosting outdoor “Fireside Chats” with groups of five to create social connection and combat the isolation of this season. If you are interested in joining one of these outdoor get-togethers around a fire, you can contact us through our website.

Emmanuel Lutheran Church

Greetings from Emmanuel Lutheran Church. Although we cannot worship together as a congregation, we invite the West Plains community to access our website emmanuelcheney.org for weekly worship materials, sermon, and Zoom fellowship. If you should need pastoral support during this difficult time, please contact pastor Arianna Arends at 509-954-5886.

Emmanuel plans to gather for worship services when Spokane County moves to Phase 3. Updates will be printed here if Emmanuel’s plans change.

Our Free Community Pantry remains open to the community and all are invited to take what they need and leave what they can. Donations of non-perishable food and personal care items for all ages are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your continued support of this important ministry to our neighbors in need.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

A welcoming haven, nourishing all God’s people in body, mind and spirit. Rev. Kathryn Lamphere, our vicar, will preach and preside, offering Holy Eucharist. Because of the pandemic, the service will be an abbreviated version but includes all the necessary prayers, beginning every Sunday morning at 11 a.m. The congregation will receive the bread and wine at this time. All safety and sanitizing measures will be strictly observed, in particular wearing masks and keeping social distancing. All are welcome.

The memorial service in honor of our deceased priest, Rev. Christine Soule, is postponed, and will be rescheduled later, to be held at St. John’s Cathedral. We will keep you informed.

For your contemplation: “Remember, Christian Soul, that thou hast this day, and every day of thy life, God to glorify, Jesus to imitate, A soul to save, A body to mortify, Sins to repent of, Virtues to acquire, Hell to avoid, Heaven to gain, Eternity to prepare for, Time to profit by, Neighbours to edify, The world to despise, Devils to combat, Passions to subdue, Death, perhaps, to suffer, Judgment to undergo.” Saint Augustine

United Methodist Church

The fourth week of Lent will be observed this week at the United Methodist Church. Our theme for this season is “Holy Vessels: A Lenten Season of Recovery” based on worship work by Marcia McFee. Pastor Alissa Bertsch will be preaching this Sunday and focusing on our intellectual health and creativity with her sermon entitled “Different Pictures.” How have you embraced creativity in this past year?

Each week’s worship service is available on line or with an at home worship guide available on the church website, www.cheneyumc.org. You may also contact Pastor Alissa Bertsch at 509- 879-2278 if you would like be added to our mailing list for a hard copy of the worship service. Please join us for healing in this holy season.