Join us for Sacred Space, a brief contemplative service to start your week. Cutting through the chaos and the clutter of our world, this will be an uncomplicated time for readings, music, and prayer at 9am starting this Sunday,October 1. This more intimate service will not be livestreamed.

SHOW ME A SIGN: How Artists Use Symbols, a presentation and conversation with Phoenix Art Museum Docent, Nancy Feiring, is coming up this Sunday, October 1 at 9:00am in the Palo Verde Room. All are invited to look at art from different times and places while you learn to decipher symbols that would be understood by people living at the time the artwork was new, discovering symbols in art that are used to teach, to warn, and to inspire.

Join Burn City String Quartet, our Quartet in Residence for a concertthis Sunday, October 1, at 3:00 in the Sanctuary. This fine ensemble of ASU music grads will perform May Basket by Korine Fujiwara, Lullaby by George Gershwin, and String Quartet No. 1 "American Dreams" by Peter Schickele. Doors open at 2:30. Tickets are $20 for general admission, available online and at the door. $10 student tickets are available at the door with valid student ID. Learn more at: burncitysq.com 

We are excited to host “Get to Know Pastor Michael” receptions this fall. These dessert-and-coffee receptions are an opportunity for you to meet with Pastor Michael in a small group setting and for him to get to know YOU. Five receptions are scheduled in private homes in October and November (sign up here). The Adult Sunday School Class hosts Pastor Michael at 9am on October 9 and Friendship Village will host receptions in the near future as well. (Stay tuned for those.) We are limiting attendance and more receptions may be scheduled as these slots fill up. If you have questions, email Carol Muggeridge.

On Wednesday, October 4, at 5:30pm, The S.A.G.E. environmental ministry invites you to join us for a soup dinner and watch party in the Palo Verde Room to view and discuss the film, “Current Revolution: Nation in Transition.” Arizona features prominently in this story about the transition from coal to renewables on the Navajo Nation. Members of the Navajo organization TÓ NIZHÓNÍ ÁNÍ are interviewed as well as Arizona energy experts --including Dayspring member Dr. Clark Miller. Clark, who will be on hand to answer questions, is ASU’s Associate Director for Faculty and Professor for ASU’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society.

Wednesday Evening Fellowship returns for five weeks starting October 11! Join us for a delicious dinner in the Fellowship Hall at 5:30, followed by small group learning and discussion for adults at 6:00. Pastors Jeff and Michael will lead the second section of Living the Questions, Honoring Creation. You need not have completed the first section to participate, but it is helpful. Books are available for purchase in the church office. Email Andrea to reserve child care for the class.

Save the date! Our annual Dayspring Fall Festival is on October 14 from 5-8pm. This is a church-wide event and is also open to the preschool and surrounding community. Costumes are encouraged! Join our youth as they host this evening full of fun fall themed activities for families, games, bounce houses, trunk-or-treating and more!

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP, please consider donating items for the festival from our Amazon Wish List.

On Sunday, October 15, Dayspring Tempe will be celebrating the importance of public education and those who have been involved in its work in our 10:00 service.

In a special addition to the church bulletin, we want to recognize all Dayspring attendees that have had any role, whether staff, teachers, bus drivers, facilities/cafeteria workers or volunteers. To be included, send your name, your role in public education (past or current) and where you are/were involved to our church office by email (tempeoffice@dayspring-umc.org) or phone call (480-838-1446). We are also collecting any photos of school activities that you would like to share. Please email photos to Kris by no later than Monday, October 9.

The children in BeTween are raising money by hosting a car wash on Sunday, October 15 from 11:30 to 1:00 in the church parking lot. Your donations will support our Christmas service project for local kids in need. 

Dayspring will hold its ninth annual Blessing of the Animals on Sunday, October 15 at 12:00pm. All pets are welcome. Please bring dogs on a leash or in a carrier. If you’re unable to bring your pet, for any reason, but would still like them blessed, please bring a photo. Children are invited to bring their stuffed animals for a blessing during Children’s Time at the 10:00am service. 

Twenty members of the Dayspring choirs visited England in late May and early June, singing five Evensong services in Portsmouth Cathedral. This event brings a taste of that very traditional service back home to Tempe. Evensong is among the oldest rites in the Anglican tradition, dating back to the earliest days of the Reformation. It was first laid out, in virtually its present form, in 1549. The texts are similarly old, predating even the King James Bible. The main part of the service is the singing of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (despite the Latin titles, the words are in English). We will sing one of the two settings the choir sang in England, a lively piece by Bryan Kelly. We will also chant a psalm, do the traditional responses, and sing an anthem by Moses Hogan. This is a contemplative service dominated by music; it will last about 45 minutes. The liturgy on October 15 celebrates St. Luke the Doctor (the author of the gospel).

We will take a free-will offering in support of the Dayspring Music Program.

Whether you're walking with us in the Phoenix Pride Parade on October 22, or you simply want a new Dayspring t-shirt, our special Dayspring Pride shirts are available for purchase HERE. Part of the proceeds from this purchase support LGBTQ+ organizations!

Are you handy? Do you have experience in management? Dayspring is creating a new position entitled Facilities and Maintenance Manager to assist the Trustees in managing our facilities and to replace the maintenance position that Kurt Hegland has so ably performed for us in the past. A detailed job description for this new position may be found HERE. If you are interested in applying for the position or would like more information about the position, please email the Staff Parish Relations Committee at sprc@dayspring-umc.org.