Arlington Hills UMC

Worship Services

Sunday Morning Worship

Our regular Sunday morning worship service begins at 10:00 a.m. The first Sunday of the month usually includes a communion service.

   9:00  Youth Bell Choir Rehearsal
   9:15  Chancel Choir Warm-ups
 10:00  Worship Service begins
 10:15  Children leave for Children's Church
 10:25  Children go to age-graded Sunday School
 11:00  Fellowship Time
 11:00  Children’s Choir Rehearsal followed by a snack

Large Print Hymnals and Bulletins, Hearing Enhancement Devices, Children’s Worship Bags and Worship Bulletins are available to enhance your worship.  Please ask an usher if you need any of these items to help you participate fully in the service.

We ask everyone, including our guests, to please register your attendance as the pew pad is passed. Visitors are asked to include their name, home address, city, zip code and telephone so we can follow up with them and add them to our mailing lists. 

We invite first time visitors to fill out one of the orange First Time Visitor cards in the attendance pads in the pews and deposit it in the First Time Visitor box at the Welcome Center.  All cards are entered in a monthly drawing for a $50 gift card. If you are searching for a spiritual home, we would love to become that home for you. 

We usually have flowers on the altar each Sunday morning. These flowers are given “In Honor Of…” or “In Memory Of…” our friends and families. We invite you to sign-up for a Sunday on the Flowers bulletin board in the narthex to the right of the sanctuary doors. Donors are asked to make a special offering to cover the cost of the flowers and are invited to take the flowers home after the service.

We welcome children, and encourage the use of our infant and toddler nurseries (for children through age 3), staffed with loving and caring adults.  If a child becomes restless or starts to cry, there is seating just outside the sanctuary where you may see and hear the service.  Baby changing stations are available in the restrooms just outside the Fellowship Hall and in the Infant Nursery.  For health reasons, please change your baby only in these locations.

We offer excellent age-level appropriate programming for children. Children ages 3 (as of September 1) through Grade 5 are encouraged to join their parents for the beginning of our worship service which includes a Children’s Moment. Immediately following the Children’s Moment the children are invited to join our Sunday school class. See more information about children’s programming below.  

CD recordings of all of our services are available by request.  CDs of other services are also available when requested by date.  Donations of $3 to offset the cost of CDs are welcomed. 

We receive an offering during the Sunday service.  This is an important act of worship and the primary way for the members of our church family to support our ministries.

We invite everyone to our fellowship time following our Sunday morning Worship Service. Volunteers serve treats while staff and lay ministers are available to answer questions. Visit the Welcome Center to sign-up for upcoming events and classes.  Check out the bulletin boards in the Fellowship Hall and the narthex for more news.

Mid-week Worship Services

We hold mid-week worship services as part of our Wednesday night programming September thru May usually on the third Wednesday of each month. This is 30 minute service held in the more intimate setting of our Fireside Room.

Special Worship Services

We also schedule special services throughout the year during the Lent and Advent seasons and for other special occasions. Watch for details in our weekly Bulletin Announcements, in The Builder newsletter and on our website.