"Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your whole self..." — Romans 12:2

What is really in our control? What alternate path could we take? What could we delete from our lives? If you need to reboot back to holy, healthy priorities, this series is for you.

This church LOVES to support camp experiences for children and youth. For children of the church who have finished K-5th grades, we partner with Camp Pecometh near Centreville, MD to offer faith-based getaways. The church will cover half of the registration, and siblings get additional discounts. Register your child directly, and let them know you are with the Presbyterian Church of Chestertown.

https://pecometh.campbrainregistration.com/

Compassion Camp: What Every Living Thing Needs is an earth-care curriculum focused on the more-than-human world. While humans are a part of God's creation, we aim to explore the needs of every living thing for shelter, food, water, air, and community through awareness, gratitude, wonderment, reciprocity, and kinship, and specifically, practice ways humans can have compassion for the more-than-human world regarding those needs.

There are many heroes of the faith, people we admire and wish to be. However, there are even more ordinary people of faith—those doing what they can with what they have to make a difference. This summer, we’ll dig deep into the bold and untold stories of those often overlooked in our biblical narratives, hoping these characters remind us that we all play a role in shaping God’s story of redemption and grace.

How do you imagine God, as a wise old grandparent with soft hands, or maybe as a young Palestinian Jew in sandals with a sparkle in his eye? Scripture imagines God as fire, wind, breath, clouds, rushing waters. Over these three Sundays, we open our assumptions of God, and remember the mystery of a God who is also spirit, love itself.

We call this God “creator.” God creates all things, creates the universe, this planet, and all things in it, including us. God calls all of God’s creation good, and gives us responsibility to steward creation wisely. How are we doing? Can we better stewards of God’s good garden, or will we find ourselves battling the land?

The Thursday Night Spiritual Growth Group is studying Parker Palmer's novel A Hidden Wholeness: Widening the Soul and Weaving Community in a Wounded World beginning on January 8 and continuing through March 12 (with March 19 as a weather make-up date).  In this book, Palmer “discusses a journey toward an undivided life through a circle of trust. He outlines the steps to listen to the soul. He teaches us how to crack open the system in order to no longer live a divided life.” If you’d like wisdom and company on your spiritual journey, this group is ready to welcome you. Most Thursdays, 730pm after “The Abbey” worship service.

Join us through the season of Lent every Sunday night for food, fellowship and study of Adam Hamilton’s “24 hours That Changed the World”.

In her book, Altar in the World, Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor imagines how to awaken our spirit in the simplicity of our daily routines. This Lent, we will let her book and scripture reteach us how to activate our spirit in the biggest and littlest moments of daily life.

The great reformers met down at the pub and debated scripture and theology. Together, in the common spaces with everyday folk, they realized errors in their interpretation of scripture, or their practice of religion. We continue that tradition by gathering in a local pub and doing some serious theological work. This season, we are studying Amy Jill Levines book “Jesus for Everybody” Heads up, we will tackle socio-political topics of today through Jesus, but we share a pint and appetizers while we do it.

If you are caring for loved ones, then you need care yourself. This community of caregivers led by a lifelong nurse shares stories only caregivers can understand. We support one another, and give one another grace and permission to live lives even while loving someone toward the end of theirs. Yes, you are welcome here.

What is FAITH? The way Jesus teaches it, there appear to be 5 key stepping stones on our way to solid faith. Join us in person or online for worship these 5 Sundays to seed and strengthen a healthy faith.

The Thursday Night Spiritual Growth Group is studying Parker Palmer's novel A Hidden Wholeness: Widening the Soul and Weaving Community in a Wounded World beginning on January 8 and continuing through March 12 (with March 19 as a weather make-up date).  In this book, Palmer “discusses a journey toward an undivided life through a circle of trust. He outlines the steps to listen to the soul. He teaches us how to crack open the system in order to no longer live a divided life.” If you’d like wisdom and company on your spiritual journey, this group is ready to welcome you. Most Thursdays, 730pm after “The Abbey” worship service.

This weekly worship service is contemplative, in the style of the Iona and Taize Communities in Scotland and France. There are readings from scripture and maybe poetry, songs old and new. The lights are lower, voices softer, and neighbors closer. If you seek an intimate, personal worship experience, join us.

Most of us don’t really know the Bible very well. It makes us vulnerable to it being misunderstood, misrepresented, or misused. On Wednesday mornings, this small group studies the scripture text for Sunday with our pastors. We go into the historical, political, contextual, literary aspects. Then we wonder what this text might be saying to us and our world today. Come grow in your knowledge and understanding of scripture, and help our pastors see God through your eyes. Most Wednesday mornings at 900am.

Rev. Caitlan’s Book Club will be studying “Tears of Things” twice a month (1st and 3rd Tuesdays) till April! Join this group as they take turns hosting and studying together, learning and growing with each other.

Join our knitting group every Tuesday! Whether you are just learning or seasoned, join this group and get involved in the many projects they do for the local community and beyond!

Join us every Monday night starting in January for our Men’s Fellowship group. We will study “The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians” by William Barclay. It’s a time for study, laughter and friendship.

A sermon is not meant to be a monologue, as if the preacher has all the answers and is pouring the information into us. Instead, a sermon is a spark to ever widening conversation. We trust, by Holy Spirit, God is doing many great things in all of us because of a sermon. In Diving Deeper, we sit with one another, share what we heard, listen to other perspectives, clarify misunderstandings, and grow the Kin-dom of God. Most Sundays after Fellowship.