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New Midweek Discussion Series: “For the Health of the Nation”

Thursday, September 19, our midweek Forum is beginning an 8-week series called “For the Health of the Nation.” We’re using a series of videos produced by the National Association of Evangelicals. These videos aren’t intended to draw anyone to the political right or left, but to examine what Scripture says about key issues facing us today, and how we should respond to…

New Series: Different Views on Creation and the Flood — beginning April 14

By popular demand, we’re beginning a new series April 14 on the different views evangelical Christians hold regarding creation and the flood. This will be a 4-week series, covering these questions and issues: How do we most faithfully study the first chapters of Genesis? How did God create? When did God create? Was the flood a global phenomenon or a local one?…

Easter Schedule

We’ll have one combined online Easter service Saturday morning at 8 am Pacific and 11 am Eastern. If you’d like to join our online service, please email us for more information at info@orchardonline.org. Our local service will be Sunday evening at 5:30 as usual. Instead of eating prior to our service, we’ll be eating after the Easter service. So the service will…

Christmas Schedule

This year, we won’t be gathering as a church on Christmas Day or Christmas Eve, but we will have a Christmas Party and service on Christmas Eve Eve! We’ll be meeting on Friday, December 23, at 6 pm. For more information about what we’ll be doing (including our Christmas ornament gift exchange!), contact us at info@orchardonline.org.

Changes and New Addition to Pastoral Team

As many of you know, we’ve changed our focus somewhat from being a church whose main services were all online, to being primarily a locally meeting church (in Sacramento) that also offers weekly online services. This change has made it a logistical necessity for Jack Foster to withdraw from our senior pastoral team. This team oversees and pastors the whole church and—since…

New Service Schedule

We’ve made some changes to our weekend service schedule. Beginning Sunday (Sep 25), we’ll be meeting locally in person (in the Sacramento area) every Sunday evening at 5:30. But we remain committed to providing online services for those who aren’t in this area or who can’t attend in person. In fact, we’re expanding our schedule to include three online services every weekend,…