UPCOMING EVENTS

Throughout 2025, we will be meeting for study, prayer, retreat, and occasional worship to be formed in community by the presence of God in our midst. These events are meant to help you get to know Incarnation and the Episcopal tradition. Attending is an act of exploration, not commitment. We hope that studying, praying, and worshipping together will assist you in discerning if God is calling you to take part in Incarnation's foundational chapter. Please check out our upcoming events below, and spread the word to others who might be interested in joining us!

"They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers" (Acts 2:42).

HOW DID WE GET HERE?
a 6-week series on the Church

Wednesdays, April 30 - June 4, 6:30pm / Merchant Coffee Co. / 922 Merchant St. Ambridge / To be notified about details, please sign up for Incarnation updates.

One of the strongest arguments against Christianity is the Church: its division, its abuses, its incoherence across denominations. How did we get here? What’s more, in the midst of such a broken institution, how do we heed Isaiah’s call to “seek the Lord where he wills to be found”?

JESUS IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE

June 28th, 10:30AM / To be notified about details, please sign up for Incarnation updates.

Christianity has taken center stage in political discourse over the past few years. But what does Jesus’ earthly ministry teach us to expect about the role Christianity should have in society? In this event, we’ll highlight recent public discourse about Jesus and the Christian faith, dig into the assumptions of this discourse, and contemplate what it looks like to be conformed to Christ in 21st-century America.

AN INSTRUCTED EUCHARIST

September 2025 / Saturday morning service / To be notified about details, please sign up for Incarnation updates.

Holy Eucharist, also called the Lord's Supper and Communion, is the principle act of Christian worship on Sundays and all other major feast days. But why does it take the shape it does, with readings and prayers and confessions and creeds? What are the core elements of the Eucharistic liturgy, and what do they mean?

This special Eucharist service will offer us the chance to slow down, observe, and learn about the different parts of the liturgy as we make our way through it. There will be several pauses throughout the service in which the Rev. Deanna Briody will offer a brief teaching on the upcoming portion of the liturgy, shedding light on why we do what we do in a Eucharist service and inviting us more deeply into the richness, power, and mystery of the worship of the Triune God.

ANCIENT WORDS AND BODILY WORSHIP: PRAYING IN THE EPISCOPAL TRADITION

October 2025 / Single day retreat / To be notified about details, please sign up for Incarnation updates.

Believing that the Spirit has been at work forming the mind of Christ in the Church since the day of Pentecost, the Episcopal tradition invites us to pray words that have been prayed many times before and to present our souls and bodies to God by physical actions that Christians have been practicing for centuries: kneeling, standing, crossing ourselves, bowing, and so on. In this one-day retreat, we will immerse ourselves in the rich patterns of historical Christian worship and explore the beauty and grace God offers us through the Episcopal tradition.

Highlights from Past Events

HYMN SING AND BLUES EUCHARIST
JANUARY 26, 2025
AMBRIDGE, PA

ASHES, FISH FRIES, AND FASTING: WHAT IS LENT ALL ABOUT?
MARCH 21, 2025
BEAVER, PA

"Lent is the invitation

to keep company with Jesus,

as Jesus keeps company with us.

It is the call to go where Jesus goes, into the wilderness with both eyes open. It is, to put it another way, an invitation into reality—an invitation into the truth—a call to recognize that there is a conflict, and that we are in it, whether or not we acknowledge it, whether or not we want to be. Though conquered at the cross, Sin, Death, and the Devil still seek to exert their wounded presence in this world. The wilderness that Jesus labored through during those forty days, the wilderness of temptation, the wilderness of everyday life still exists, and it’s still a place of conflict—not with flesh and blood, as St. Paul reminds us, but with “the cosmic powers over this present darkness, the spiritual forces of evil” which still seek to reign around us and in us, in our world and in our lives.

That's what Lent is all about at the end of the day:

keeping company with Jesus

in the wilderness of ordinary life."

Incarnation sees children as full members of the community of faith. We will provide content specifically designed for children at events whenever possible. When this is not feasible, we will gladly provide childcare. If you and your children would like to participate in an event, please contact the Rev. Deanna Briody.