Zwingli United Church of Christ, Souderton, PA

Pastor Butch Kuykendall Retirement - Final Zwingli Message
2026-02-01 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Join us as we honor Pastor Butch’s Faithful Ministry to Zwingli United Church of Christ.
Celebrate Pastor Butch’s retirement by joining us Sunday, February 1st for his last Sunday morning sermon at Zwingli. Worship at 9am followed by a special Fellowship Celebration with snacks, gifts, and shared stories.

Circle of Sisters Book Club
2026-01-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Bright Space
Join Circle of Sisters January 28th to discuss Sisters Loved and Treasured: Stories of Unbreakable Bonds, by Debora Roberts.
Beacons of support, understanding, and love, sisters are there for us through it all—childhood, the formative teenage years, and, if we’re lucky, through adulthood. But how often do we step back from our busy lives to acknowledge what they truly mean to us? Sisters everywhere deserve to feel that love. In Sisters Loved and Treasured: Stories of Unbreakable Bonds, award-winning ABC News journalist and New York Times bestselling author Deborah Roberts curates a giftable collection of conversations, meditations, and anecdotes from her own sisters, celebrity friends and everyday people alike who share deeply personal accounts of how their relationships as sisters shaped their lives.

Indian Valley Community Blood Drive
2026-01-27 13:00 - 19:00, 2025-12-23 13:00 - 19:00
Miller-Keystone Blood Drive – Donate life saving blood on the fourth Tuesday of every month from 1:00-7:00 pm in the Family Life Center at Zwingli UCC. Signup can be completed at www.giveapint.org. If you plan to give Platelets, click the Platelet tab before choosing your time slot. If you plan to give double-red cells, key 2RBC in the comments space. Thank you!

Adult Electives - Teachings of Buddha Part III: A Deeper Dive into the Human Mind
2026-01-25 10:30 - 11:30 | Parlor
Teachings of Buddha Part III: A Deeper Dive into the Human Mind
Gotama is one of the first psychologists. The human mind has the capacity to develop greed, hatred and ignorance or generosity, kindness and wisdom. The mind has the capacity to direct which path it chooses to follow.

Martin Luther King Jr. Service Day
2026-01-19 10:00 - 12:00
Join local churches for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Monday, January 19, 2026, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM, hosted at Zwingli United Church of Christ. In the spirit of Dr. King’s call to serve others, we will be assembling multiple service projects to support a variety of local organizations. Volunteers are needed to help put these projects together, and projects will be kid-friendly and family-friendly, with opportunities for all ages and abilities. We encourage anyone from the community to come and participate—everyone is welcome as we work together to make a positive impact.

It's time to make the fastnachts!
2026-01-19 09:00 - 17:00
FASTNACHT MAKING- Monday February 16th
9AM UNTIL WE FINISH
Needed: mixers, rollers, fryers, sugar bag shakers, runners, tasters and of course sellers. No experience necessary. We need everyone. It’s a fun day for all ages. Please consider coming out for the morning, afternoon or better yet stay all day. Lunch is always provided. This is a long time, wonderful, Zwingli tradition and we need your help to keep it going.
THE SIGN-UP SHEET WILL BE ON THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BULLETIN BOARD

Fastnachts!
2026-01-19 08:00 - 2026-01-20 17:00
Order your fastnachts today!
Cost – $9.00 dozen, $5.00 ½ dozen
Pick Up – Monday 2/16 between 4pm-6pm
Tuesday 2/17 7am-9am
Order Deadline – Friday, February 13
If you are unable to sign up in church, please call your order in to the church office 215-723-1186

Adult Electives Class - MLK Day of Service Overview & Income Tax Updates for 2025
2026-01-18 10:30 - 11:30 | Parlor
MLK Day of Service Overview led by Jen Smeed & Carolyn Leake
Income Tax Updates for Your 2025 Filling by Carol Mattes

Adult Electives Class - Teachings of the Buddha Part II: The Path
2026-01-11 10:30 - 11:30 | Parlor
Teachings of the Buddha Part II: The Path
Just as Gotama taught the origins of stress, he taught a way, a path, to the alleviation of stress.

Christmas Eve Family Service
2025-12-24 17:00 - 18:00
Christmas Eve is a time of reflection and celebration for many, and the Christmas Eve services offer meaningful ways to gather in faith and mark the occasion. There are two services, at 5:00pm and 7:30pm. We will look for families to participate in the 5 PM service on Thursday, Dec 24th. Please let Pastor Alan know if your family wants to participate in this years’ service. The 7:30 service is a lessons and carols service with Communion.

Congregational Meeting
2025-12-14 10:00 - 10:30

Souderton Alumni Men's Chorus Concert
2025-12-07 19:00 - 20:30
Jon Leight’s Alumni Men’s Chorus will offer a choral music program. This a popular tradition and a great night of choral music.

Souderton Holiday Parade
2025-12-06 11:00 - 13:00
WE NEED YOU FOR THE SOUDERTON CHRISTMAS PARADE
The parade is scheduled for December 6, 2025 at 11 am. We are looking for Zwingli members to help decorate the float for the parade. More information to follow. Anyone willing to help should contact Pastor Alan.

Hanging of the Greens
2025-11-30 09:00 - 10:00
The Advent “Hanging of the Greens” service will be held on Sunday, November 30. This is a well-loved service that is participation friendly. Help us decorate our beautiful sanctuary during our morning worship service, as we prepare our hearts and homes for the Advent and Christmas seasons. We’ll also celebrate communion! Please bring an ornament to place on the Sanctuary tree.

Indian Valley Community Blood Drive
2025-11-25 13:00 - 19:00, 2025-10-28 13:00 - 19:00 | FLC

Adult Electives - Children's Crisis Treatment Center: "Supporting children through Trauma"
2025-11-23 10:30 - 11:30
Marissa Tice (Kinship Adoptive Parent) shares how The Children’s Crisis’s Treatment Center helps kids who have experienced trauma heal, recover, and reach their fullest potential. Join us in the parlor for this enlightening session.

Adult Electives - Children's Crisis Treatment Center: Supporting Children Through Trauma
2025-11-23 10:30 - 11:30 | Parlor

Adult Electives - Quadas Dulcimer Club: Educational Concert
2025-11-23 10:00 - 11:30, 2025-11-16 10:00 - 11:30
Quadas will play a concert at Zwingli UCC in Souderton at 10 am immediately after the service. This concert is open to all comers. If you arrive by 9:00, join the congregation for the service and then enjoy the concert with fellowship and refreshments.

Transgender Day of Remembrance
2025-11-20 19:00 - 20:00
Join us for a vigil to remember those lost this past year. Light refreshments and fellowship to follow. Sponsored by soudertonareaforall.org

Adult Electives - Healing the Soul Wounds of War
2025-11-09 10:30 - 11:30
This presentation will focus on what is necessary to tend and heal the soul wounds of war borne by returning veterans, and the vital role that faith communities can play in this endeavor. “Moral injuries” and “soul wounds” are the often-invisible wounds related to the horrors of war, the dehumanization of others, violation of one’s deepest principles, killing, wounding, betrayal, or failing adequately to protect.
The program will be led by Roger Kessler and Rev. Scott Hutchinson, who have been working together for nearly two decades. Roger is a U.S. Army veteran deployed during Operation Desert Storm in 1991, and a local leader in the veteran community. Scott is a UCC pastor who has tended veterans and whose roles in mission and peacemaking took him into two war zones. Roger and Scott were instrumental in establishing the Veterans Ministry Team at their church in Perkasie, believing that a local congregation needed to not only welcome veterans but be willing to receive the fullness of their stories. They were also co-founders of the COMPASS Healing Circle, which brought veterans, their family members, and members of the wider community together.

Adult Electives - Wounds of the Soul
2025-11-09 10:30 - 11:30 | Parlor
Wounds of the Soul”
This class will focus on the moral wounds of war (“wounds of the soul”), the burdensome knowledge often carried by those who have experienced war, and the tending of those wounds. Rev. Scott Hutchinson will lead this class.

Fall Clean-Up
2025-11-08 09:00 - 12:00
ZWINGLI FALL CLEAN-UP
Saturday, November 8
9:00 AM-Noon

Please bring your favorite garden rake
and work gloves

Refreshments will be provided

Rain Date: November 15, 2025

Still Going Strong
2025-11-06 12:00 - 14:30
Pack your lunch and join us for a field trip to the Goschenhoppen Museum. We will leave from Zwingli around 1:15. Please join us for lunch and/the trip, or just lunch. Sign up on the bulletin board.

Adult Electives - Joint Bible Study
2025-11-02 10:30 - 11:30 | Parlor
Joint Adult Bible Study led by Charlotte Kramer

Blessing of the Animals (and stuffed animals)
2025-10-26 09:00 - 10:00
BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS
(AND STUFFED ANIMALS)

Animal lovers and friends, save the date! October 26th during our regular Sunday worship (9am) Zwingli will celebrate a Blessing of the Animals. Your pets on leashes, carriers or other appropriate means will be welcome to join us in worship to be blessed and appreciated! We also invite children to bring a stuffed animal to be blessed! Please stay tuned for more information.

Trunk or Treat
2025-10-25 15:00 - 17:00
Join us for our annual Trunk or Treat on Saturday, October 25 @3pm. (raindate 10/26)
Wear your costume and go trunk to trunk in our parking lot to collect your treats! There will be a pumpkin patch, games, smores and more family fun! FREE!

Adult Electives - Asylum Pride House
2025-10-19 10:30 - 11:30 | Parlor
Victoria Sirois, Asylum Pride House’s Founder & Director, will be joining Zwingli UCC to provide an educational session, discussing the asylum seeking process for LGBTQIA+ individuals in the US, how Asylum Pride House supports this community, and ways you can get involved. There will also be time for questions and conversation!
