Arrival
Use the double doors facing the parking lot. Someone at the welcome table will hand you a hymnal and a bulletin.
Your first Sunday
Come at 10:45. Stay for lunch if it's the first Sunday.
We're a small church, so you will probably be noticed. You won't be made to stand up, fill in a card or say anything at all.
Before you come
Short answers to the usual questions
If we've missed something, call the office and Lois will tell you, probably at some length.
Parking
The lot on the north side has forty spaces. Overflow parks along South 15th Street.
Children
Children stay in worship until the children's story, then go to class with Hien and Joan. A nursery is open from 9:15 for under-threes.
Length
Worship runs about an hour. The sharing time can stretch it to seventy minutes.
Dress
What you'd wear to the library. Some farmers come straight from chores.
Access
Level entry from the lot, a hearing loop in the sanctuary, and large-print hymnals and bulletins at the welcome table.
A Sunday morning at Clearwater
Coffee and nursery open
The coffee is strong and the cookies are homemade.
Sunday school
Eight classes. Visitors usually drop in on the Open Door class in Room 4.
Worship begins
A gathering hymn, a call to worship read by a member, and more singing.
Scripture and sermon
One reading, twenty minutes of preaching, then a response hymn.
Joys and concerns
People stand and share news. Then a prayer, a last hymn and the benediction.
More questions
Things visitors ask on the way out
Can I take communion?
Yes, if you follow Jesus. We share bread and grape juice on the first Sunday of the month, passed down the pews. It is fine to pass the plate along.
Why is there no piano?
Singing without instruments is an old Mennonite habit. We keep it because everyone has to sing for it to work. There is a piano in the fellowship hall for the children's program.
Do I need to be Mennonite to come?
No. About a quarter of the people on a Sunday grew up in some other church or none. Membership is a separate conversation, whenever you want to have it.
What is a carry-in?
What other churches call a potluck. First Sunday of the month, after worship. Come even if you didn't bring anything; there is always more than enough.
Is there anything for teenagers?
Youth meet on Sunday evenings at six. They also run the coffee table in the morning, so you'll meet them early.
S 15th StPlymouth AvePumpkinvine TrailClearwater Mennonite Fellowship
Finding us
The brick church on South 15th, two blocks from the Pumpkinvine trail
1715 S. 15th Street, Goshen, IN 46526- Parking
- Free lot on the north side of the building. Overflow along South 15th Street.
- By bike or bus
- Bike racks by the front doors; the Pumpkinvine trail is two blocks east. The Interurban Trolley stops at Plymouth and 15th.
- Access
- Level entry from the parking lot, an accessible restroom off the foyer and a hearing loop in the sanctuary.