Ministries & Teams
Calling a Minister, FAQ
A Message and Guide from the board of trustees Since we announced at the January congregational meeting our intention to hold a congregational vote, to call Reverend Lee as our Settled Minister, we have held listening circles open to all congregants to enable further discussion and education on this important milestone for our community. Please see below for a list of questions most frequently asked, during those listening sessions. Our vote will open on Sunday, April 7th, so watch your…
Your Invitation to “Books Set Free” – Our All-Ages Message Series for May!
A Note From Rev. Lee A few years ago we started a new tradition at WellSprings: all of our Sunday services in May are “all-ages” services. That means instead of heading off to YouthSpirit, our younger friends stay with the adults for the whole morning – and together, we create a worship experience that is more participatory, engaging, and accessible to our friends at every age and stage of life. This May, we are hoping to create as many opportunities…
Building Our Beloved Community: A Letter from the Stewardship Ministry
Greetings WellSprings! The Stewardship Ministry has begun work on our annual pledge campaign for the July 2024 through June 2025 fiscal year. We are inspired by our congregation’s generosity and sincerely thank everyone who supported WellSprings with a pledge commitment for the fiscal year July 2023 to June 2024. Our pledge campaign theme this year is Building Our Beloved Community! At WellSprings, pledges are a commitment to give throughout the coming year. They allow us to plan for how WellSprings will…
Welcome Back, Caring Team!
With leadership from our former Intern, Beth Monhollen, last year – and after re-gathering over the past few months, with Rev. Lee – our Caring Team at WellSprings is officially re-forming in 2024. We are a small group, so we are starting small, with two projects to help our community connect and care for each other, in the year ahead: For now, our Team is: Carole Hovis, Eli Musewicz, & Shannon Rieder. We’ll be working closely with Rev. Lee and our Ministerial Intern, Nick,…
A Welcome to Some New Leaders
Welcome New Leaders! We are grateful to have some new leaders joining our Senior Leader Community at WellSprings in 2024! In January the Board announced that Chris Rieder has been appointed as a Board Trustee to fill the seat recently vacated. Chris is also a member of the Tech Team. Sarah Costa also recently joined our Stewardship Ministry. Sarah has volunteered in YouthSpirit, and you may recall that she led an “Off the Fence” Soul Bite, this past fall. Jenn Nettingham and Samantha Weber have also been actively participating in our YouthBridge Ministry – as…
WellSprings and Better Days Ahead Outreach Team Up to Help the Unhoused in Philly
All month long in January, our HeartWorks Team took up a collection of blankets, sleeping bags, and cold-weather gear of every kind – especially winter coats. The purpose of this collection was to support a day of outreach in Philadelphia, organized by Better Days Ahead. Chris Brickhouse, of the Better Days Ahead organization, was our guest speaker on Sunday, January 21st. He told us about the homelessness crisis right here in our area, and offered more ways that we can…
A Recap Of Our Congregational Meeting on 1/28
A Note from the board… Our hearts are full from our Special Congregational meeting on Sunday, January 28th, in which we discussed the process of calling a minister. Calling a minister is a matter of deep significance to a congregation, and we hope to approach it with the requisite reverence and love as we ask ourselves to more deeply commit in our relationship with Reverend Lee. It is fitting we started this process on the same day we mark our 17th birthday! …
Did You Know…? WellSprings Has a Book Club!
One of the newest additions to our congregational activities is the newly launched WellSprings Book Club – and you are invited to come check it out! The club meets once a month, on a Monday evening at the Montgomery School, from 6:30 – 8:30 pm. Books are announced about a month in advance. This Month’s Book Club pick: Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how…
Thank You for Supporting Our Angel Tree!
The HeartWorks Team delivered dozens of gifts, provided generously by WellSpringers, to Kate’s Casa last week. Each of these gifts will go to a child in need, right here in our community. Thank you, as always, for your generosity, and for making our neighbors’ holiday season a little brighter! Below are photos of the HeartWorks Team dropping off all the gifts they collected during this event.
Our Signature Small Group Returns for Fall!
Here is your next opportunity to participate in our beloved community’s signature small group: WellSprings 2.0 – Listening to Our Lives. Participants explore big questions and timeless spiritual topics together: about Inspiration, God, Community, Suffering, Death, Spiritual Practice, Living our Gifts, and more. Groups that have taken 2.0 together in the past have formed strong bonds with each other and with our community. This session meets Every other Sunday at noon, beginning November 5, 2023 and ending February 25, 2024. This…
Dig Deeper With our Messages & Join Us for a Soul Bite, This Fall…
Do you ever wish you could “dig deeper” into something you heard, on a Sunday morning? Or that you could get together and talk about your thoughts and feelings on the message, with other folks in our community? This year, our Small Groups Team is trying something new: offering a series of “Soul Bites” for WellSpringers to come together and discover the deeper meaning behind our Sunday message themes. A Soul Bite is a single-session group gathering, for discussion and…
Charging Up at WellCome Back Sunday!
On Sunday, September 10th, we celebrated our annual “WellCome Back Sunday” tradition at WellSprings, with a new twist! This service marks both the end of summer, and a return to the regular rhythms and schedules of our congregational year. If you missed it, you can watch the whole thing on our YouTube Channel. Our band rehearsed a new song before the service began, as volunteers set up a bit of an unusual chair configuration, because we had exciting plans for…