[The Montclair Times] It's a Sunday afternoon and a local church gathers to worship, but this service gets closer to picnic tables than pews.
St. Luke's Episcopal Church is pushing its congregation out the doors, not to kick them out, but to engage with the community, in its Worship Without Walls program.
Worship Without Walls is a community worship series that consists of services held each weekend in the summer. The service meets every Sunday at 5 p.m., but the location changes every week. The location doesn't just change. It remains unknown for most of the week. The church releases the location on its website, weekly newsletter, andweekly email.
The Rev. John Mennell, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, said the program is meant to push the church directly into the community and "recognizing that God was at work in the neighborhood, and we needed to go where God was and where God's people are."
