Welcome.
We are one of the oldest congregations on the North Side of Chicago. Located in the lakefront Bryn Mawr Historic District, we have served the residents of Edgewater, Andersonville, Uptown, and Rogers Park for over 129 years.
Edgewater Presbyterian Church is a member of the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce, ONE Northside, and the Edgewater Community Religious Association. Pastor Kristin is a member of the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance leadership team.
Liturgies and Meetings.
Worship services are every Sunday at 11 a.m. with Rev. Kristin Hutson presiding and Allison Mann directing music. Communion liturgy is celebrated on the first Sunday of each month.
Stated meetings of the Session (Board of Governors) are on the third Sunday of each month after worship.
Upcoming Liturgies and Meetings (Click to view live stream on Zoom).
Sunday, August 24. Liturgy of the Word at 11 a.m. with Pastor Kristin.
Sunday, August 24. Stated meeting of the Session at 12:30 p.m. This meeting was moved to this date due to unavailability of a Moderator on August 17.
Sunday, August 31. Liturgy of the Word at 11 a.m. with Pastor Kristin.
Watch on your mobile device or computer
During this challenging time of precautions and mitigation, we livestream our services on Zoom.com. You can create a free Zoom.com account. Our multimedia ministry is led by Derek Potts and Nathan Doll.
The Edgewater Presbyterian Church meeting ID is 868 7371 4352.
From the Clerk’s Desk
Ask the Elder: Why don’t we hear YHWH anymore in church?
Presbyterians, Catholics, Lutherans, Episcopalians, and Methodists moved away from using YHWH in prayers and hymns.
Theology 101: Yes, you can say worship is where heaven and earth meet
Sometimes we have to embrace that mystical nature to see how poignant, how poetic, how so utterly beyond our understanding what happens to us is when we go to worship.
Ask the Elder: Why does that painting look different from the other kinds?
One of our wonderful neighbors from Bryn Mawr Cares, a supportive residential community across the street from our church, asked me as I prepared for worship, “Why does that painting look different from the other kinds?”
When chaos joins worship; tips when children turn worship into playground
Here are some of the top suggestions from those who responded to similar questions on Facebook and Reddit.
Liturgy: Commitment of old Bibles to the earth (or recycling)
The commitment may involve burial in a dedicated plot or incorporation into a compost area that will nourish new growth.
Sacred Sounds: Why babies belong in worship
That crying baby isn’t disrupting worship. They’re completing it.
Call to Worship in sorrow for our mistreatment of Indigenous people
The following is a Call to Worship I wrote that invokes a spirit of lament and reconciliation for how Christian missionaries forced Western culture and practices on Indigenous in the Americas and overseas territories.
Microaggressions are pervasive in some churches; white savior behaviors, too
If the Church isn’t a place where people can breathe freely, then it’s not a house of God. It’s just another place where the world tells them they don’t belong.
Jesus called women to ministry
More information: Presbyterian Women
this is an affirming safe space
More information: Presbyterian Church (USA) on Sexuality and Same Gender Relationships
black lives matter
More information: Presbyterian Church (USA) Bearing Witness: Black Lives Matter
we commit to child safety
More information: Presbyterian Church (USA) Child/Youth/Vulnerable Adult Protection Policy and Procedure
Northside Friends Meeting
Northside Friends Meeting is a congregation of the Religious Society of Friends, popularly known as the Quakers. An historically progressive group of denominations in Christianity, it has long been pacifist, advocated for the abolition of slavery in Great Britain and the United States. They are known to be intensely social justice-oriented.
Friends have two types of meetings: programmed worship and waiting worship. Their worship space is called a meeting house. The New Community House is this congregation’s meeting house.
Grace Baptist Church
A longtime space-sharer in The New Community House is a congregation of the American Baptist Churches USA—historically known as the Northern Baptist Convention (1907-1950) and Triennial Convention (1814-1907). This particular congregation is fully affirming of LGBTQ persons in the life of the Church.
Many of the Founding Fathers and Mothers of the United States were members of the original colonial Baptist churches in New England.
