Our Sunday Service is held at 10am at 7160 Cahaba Valley Road, Birmingham, AL.
Our church community is centered around vintage Christian worship that is robust, reverent, and joyful. What are our services like? We give God thanks and praise in songs full of beauty, richness, and depth. We hear solid biblical preaching and teaching from a Reformational perspective. We are a family-friendly, welcoming congregation, desiring unity with all fellow believers. We celebrate the Lord’s Supper together every Sunday as a means of communion with Jesus and each other.
As God gathers us for worship each Lord’s day, he draws us into his presence, unites us with each other, instructs in truth, equips us for service, transforms us through his grace, and send us out to bear witness to his mercy in word and deed. We invite you to come and worship with us, to receive God’s gifts and to share in his mission to the world.
Here are a few resources that will help you study and appreciate the various aspects of Church practice:
What to expect at a CREC church (pdf)
Children and Worship at TPC
We welcome children into our worship service. We know that small children often make noise. While we ask parents to be sensitive to the needs of others, as a congregation, we have a very high tolerance for the presence of children in the assembly. After all, entrance into the presence of God and participation in the liturgy are “baptismal” rights that belong to them as members of the royal priesthood.
We encourage you to train your children to not simply sit still through the service, but to actually engage the service as much as possible. That’s one of the advantages of a liturgical pattern of worship — there is enough repetition in the responses and service music that even pre-literate children can be taught rapidly how to participate, at least in bits and pieces. They also quickly learn to enjoy the bodily gestures and postures we use, learning when to sit, stand, kneel, raise their hands, and shout “Amen!”
If your children cause a bit of commotion, please do not feel the need to immediately take them out (we do have a nursing mothers room and an unstaffed nursery room available). The rest of the TPC family is willing to bear with your children, so you can too. Children were no different in Jesus’ day, and yet he invited them to himself, without regard for the distractions they might present (Mt. 18-19). The psalmist insisted that children have an important role to play in the church’s liturgical “holy war,” silencing the foe and the accuser (Ps. 8).
We recognize some families do need support with multiple young children and infants. Our intention is not to leave you to figure it all out by yourself! If you would like assistance with your children during worship, we want to pair you with other members who are eager to help. While it is the primary responsibility of fathers and mothers to train their children, the church has a responsibility to help with bearing the load as well (Gal. 6:2). We see this assistance as an outflow of our baptismal vows. TPC members promise to assist fathers and mothers in the nurture and training of their children in the Lord. This is one more tangible way for us to fulfill those vows.
Here are a couple of documents that further delineate the way in which we view children, especially their presence in the worship service:
TPC Nursery Changes Letter 12.10.2024
Our paedocommunion/credocommunion cooperative agreement statement.
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