Welcome!
A caring and welcoming community for All of God’s People
If you have not found another church home, we hope you will consider our church family.
If you know a family member, a friend, neighbor, or co-worker that is seeking a loving and welcoming community, please invite them to join us.
We worship every Sunday at 10 am with a full Sunday school for ages nursery through 8th grade.
Our service is a wonderful time of caring & prayer; a growing Sunday school for children & youth; music and preaching to strengthen our faith and to prepare us for our daily lives.
Parking & Directions:
Woodridge is located across Reservoir Avenue and just north of the Garden City Shopping Center, near Carolina Barbeque and Chelo’s Restaurants on Reservoir Ave. (R.I. Route 2).
GPS: 30 Jackson Road or 546 Budlong Road, Cranston, RI
During sanctuary renovations (summer 2018) Sunday worship is held in (air-conditioned) Fellowship Hall in the Parish House building (30 Jackson Road; handicapped accessible including accessible rest rooms).
Plenty of parking in the lot between Jackson and Woodridge Roads, as well as street parking.
Our Annual Events include:
- All Church Birthday Party – February
- Annual Irish & Italian “All You Can Eat” dinner – March
- Almost May Breakfast – the last Saturday in April
- All Church Picnic / Cookout – June
- Annual Bazaar & Festival – November
On-Going Activities:
- Refreshments & fellowship follow the Sunday service during the summer
- Summer Sunday School – through September 2- an informal lesson and activity for children through age 6 (air-conditioned!)
- Food Pantry volunteering – Second Saturday mornings
This Week & This Summer Events:
Stories from the Early Church – a Summer Sermon Series
Sunday, July 8 – Healing in the Early Church (Acts 3: 1 – 10)
Sunday, July 15 – Instruments in God’s Hands (Acts 9: 1 -19)
Sunday, July 22 – Learning to be a Church Family (Acts 10: 34 – 48)
Sunday, July 29 – Peter Delivered from Prison (Acts 12: 1 – 11)
Sunday, August 5 – The Holy Spirit Opens Doors (Acts 16:25 – 40)
Vacation Bible School – Friday, August 17, 6-8 pm – inter-generational and open to all! Pot-luck dinner included. To sign-up or for more information, contact Heather Ashworth
Sanctuary renovations have begun! – Sunday worship services are held in Fellowship Hall in the Parish House building. Our front doors (facing Woodridge Road) will be open but you may enter more directly from Jackson Road (including wheelchair accessibility).
Open and Affirming Statement
Jesus said: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27
Jesus said: “For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” Luke 11:10
We affirm each person as a child of God, worthy of God’s love and we covenant to support one another in our joys, sorrows, and spiritual growth.
As a caring and welcoming community, using the Bible as a resource and the teachings of Jesus as our guide, we joyfully welcome everyone into God’s covenantal community. We believe that: “No matter who you are and where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome here”, regardless of race, ethnicity, class, age, mental status, family structure, physical or mental ability, sexual orientation, gender status or gender expression. We invite all to share in the life, leadership, ministry, worship, sacraments, responsibilities, blessings and joys of our congregation. We are called as Christian disciples to strengthen community, nurture hope, promote wholeness, foster healing, seek justice, and build God’s kingdom as we strive to live up to our mission statement.
Submitted by the Open and Affirming Steering Committee – an on-going resource to the Woodridge congregation. Approved at a special meeting of the congregation March 23, 2014.