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Christmas Services

Join us as we celebrate the birth of our Savior at Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church with beautiful services to honor the season:

Wednesday, Dec-24, 2025, 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM

4:00 PM | Contemporary Worship Service with a children’s story instead of a sermon and Holy Communion: featuring State of Grace, our band (Livestream on YouTube)

6:00 PM | Traditional Worship Service with Holy Communion: featuring Carols, Organ & Brass Accompaniment

8:00 PM | Traditional Worship Service with Holy Communion: featuring our Traditional Choir, Organ & Brass Accompaniment (Livestream on YouTube)

Thursday, Dec-25, 2025, 10:00 AM

10:00 AM | Traditional Worship Service with Holy Communion: featuring Piano and Trumpet Accompaniment

Each service is a special opportunity to gather in celebration, reflect on the gift of Christ's birth, and enjoy the music and spirit of the season. Whether you attend in person or online, we invite you to experience the joy of Christmas with us!

COME AND SEE

Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church is a Christian community and a part of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona, the Episcopal Church, and the worldwide Anglican Communion. Following Christ’s example, we invite you to “come and see” our faith community - where all are welcome, regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or any of the other “labels” our modern world creates. We are a sacramental and worship-oriented church promoting thoughtful discernment about what God is calling us to do as followers of Christ. We hope you will join us in Growing as God’s Family.

 

In Person Worship

Sundays

7:30 AM - Contemplative Worship

9:00 AM - Traditional Worship with choral music (Livestream with minimal views of parishioners seated in our sanctuary)

11:00 AM - Contemporary Worship with contemporary Christian music

Wednesdays

12:00 PM - Noonday Healing service in our Chapel

All services include Holy Communion

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Online Worship

Join us virtually on YouTube every Sunday at 9:00 AM. For those attending locally, Eucharistic Visitors are available and eager to bring communion to you if you’re unable to receive communion in person for any reason. This service primarily features traditional choral music.

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Family & Children | Youth Ministries

Children and youth play a vital role in our congregation and can be found in every corner of our campus and offerings. Children are not only the future of the church; they are the church. Youth and Family & Children’s Ministry at Saint Matthew's are for everyone. We aim to support families, and offer a place where friendships and relationships can be built around a growing relationship with Christ.

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Nursery Care

Our nursery in room C-2 is available during our 9:00 and 11:00 AM services for all children, four years old and younger. Infants are welcome.

Changing tables are available in the accessible stall of the men’s and women’s restroom in our sanctuary and parish hall, and in our nursery.

 

Upcoming events

Upcoming Events
Advent Soup Supper & Evening Prayer Series
Dec 18
Advent Soup Supper & Evening Prayer Series

Thursday, December 18, 5:45 PM - Parish Hall, 6:30 PM - Chapel

Join us for a peaceful and nourishing way to observe Advent at Saint Matthew’s with our Soup Supper and Evening Prayer series, held the first three Thursdays of December. A potluck-style supper will be served at 5:45 PM in the Parish Hall, followed by Evening Prayer at 6:30 PM in the Chapel. Sign up to contribute to dinner.

This year’s dinners will feature an informal discussion using devotionals from A Light Upon My Path, a collection of daily reflections, prayers, and scripture readings that explore the light and hope of Christ in a weary world. Copies are available in the office for $10 each, while supplies last.

All are welcome to join us for one or all of these evenings. Come share a simple meal, meaningful conversation, and prayerful reflection as we journey together through the season of Advent.

Bells Beyond: Christmas!
Dec 20
Bells Beyond: Christmas!

Saturday, December 20, 6:00 PM

Celebrate the joy of the season with a beautiful evening of Christmas music for handbells—hosted at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. This festive concert will feature three ensembles: Holy Trinity’s Handbell Choir, Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church’s Handbell Choir, and Bells Beyond. Enjoy beloved sacred and secular carols, and lift your voice in a special sing-along of Silent Night.

Come share in the music and the magic of Christmas!

Christmas Services
Dec 24
Christmas Services

Wednesday, Dec-24, 2025, 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM | 8:00 PM

Join us as we celebrate the birth of our Savior at Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church with three beautiful services to honor the season:

  • 4:00 PM | Contemporary Worship Service with a children’s story instead of a sermon and Holy Communion: featuring State of Grace, our band (Livestream on YouTube)

  • 6:00 PM | Traditional Worship Service with Holy Communion: featuring Carols, Organ & Brass Accompaniment

  • 8:00 PM | Traditional Worship Service with Holy Communion: featuring our Traditional Choir, Organ & Brass Accompaniment (Livestream on YouTube)

Each service is a special opportunity to gather in celebration, reflect on the gift of Christ's birth, and enjoy the music and spirit of the season. Whether you attend in person or online, we invite you to experience the joy of Christmas with us!

Thursday, Dec-25, 2025, 10:00 AM

Traditional Worship Service with Holy Communion: featuring Piano and Trumpet Accompaniment

Winter Camp: A Spiritual Fresh Start
Jan 2
Winter Camp: A Spiritual Fresh Start

Friday, January 2 - Sunday, January 4, 2026

Chapel Rock: 1131 Country Club Dr., Prescott, AZ 86303

Join families from Saint Matthew’s and across our diocese for Winter Camp at Chapel Rock! This is a weekend of faith, renewal, and connection. Winter Camp welcomes people of all shapes, sizes, and ages, including families with or without children. Each day offers opportunities for spiritual story art, music, gentle yoga, crafting, prayer and reflection, and plenty of time to rest and reset.

Bring a special object of faith to share as we gather around the campfire and tell our stories together. Registration is open!

 

The Latest From Creation Care

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December Tip: Sustainable Holiday Shopping & Wrapping
December Tip: Sustainable Holiday Shopping & Wrapping

As you shop for gifts this December, make sustainability part of the celebration! Choose items that are locally made, reusable, responsibly sourced, or secondhand, and avoid excess packaging whenever possible. When it’s time to wrap, skip the single-use paper and get creative with reusable bags, fabric wraps, baskets, or materials you already have at home. Small choices add up—and help keep the season joyful and gentle on the planet. For thoughtful, eco-friendly gift inspiration, don’t forget to explore the Green Gift Guide!

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November Tip: Sustainable Gift Wrapping
November Tip: Sustainable Gift Wrapping

Let’s get creative without harming the environment! There are many alternatives to using store-bought wrapping paper when preparing gifts for the holidays. Many wrapping papers on the market are not recyclable and end up in landfills. Consider using plain brown packaging paper or pages from the Sunday newspaper, which can be decorated with paint, markers, or rubber stamps. New kitchen towels also make great gift wraps—and they double as an extra gift for the recipient. Finally, gift bags and decorative boxes can be stored and reused each year for a zero-waste Christmas. We hope this gives you some inspiration!

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October Tip: Be thoughtful when using AI
October Tip: Be thoughtful when using AI

While AI can be a useful tool, it is important to understand that it hurts our environment. Perhaps the most concerning is the large amounts of water needed to cool electrical components.

“According to the Washington Post in collaboration with the University of California, Riverside, writing a single 100-word email in Open AI's ChatGPT is the equivalent of consuming just over one bottle of water.

In a more extreme example, if 1 in 10 Americans used ChatGPT weekly for a year, it would require the amount of water equal to that used by the entirety of Rhode Island — for 1.5 days.”

Check your setting on your search engines so they aren’t programed to use AI automatically when you search. That would help conserve our precious resource.

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Unto Us a Child Is Born: Our Annual Christmas Pageant! Sunday, December 14, 9:00 AM & 11:00 AM Services Get ready for one of the most joy-filled traditions of our Advent season! On December 14, our children will once again take center stage as t
Our Crafts, Cocoa, and Claus morning was an absolute delight! From festive St. Nicholas–themed crafts to our hot chocolate bar, it was a morning full of creativity, cozy cups, and community. Thank-you to everyone who joined us, brought treats
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We acknowledge the people of the land, the Akimel O’odham, Piipaash and other indigenous peoples as original stewards of this land given to them by our one and only Creator God. We commit ourselves to actively work alongside indigenous people for reconciliation and justice as we live into our Baptismal Covenant and respect the dignity of every person.

 
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