Zwingli United Church of Christ, Souderton, PA

Christmas Eve Family Service
2025-12-24 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
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.

Indian Valley Community Blood Drive
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!

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!

Adult Electives Class - Ukraine
2025-10-19 10:30 - 11:30
We invite you to meet with Marta Rubel, Social Outreach Director for the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia. Join us as she shares why she left a successful 27+ year career in publishing to join the Archeparchy. Learn about her work with Ukrainian newcomers in the U.S. during these past 3 years, and her recent visit to Ukraine as part of her latest collaboration with a Philadelphia-based NGO to instill compassion and empathy in the youth of America and encourage intercultural exchange between American and Ukrainian students.

Youth Event - Tylersport Haunted Hayride
2025-10-17 19:00 - 22:00

Souderton 3rd Fridays
2025-10-17 18:00 - 21:00
Zwingli has signed up for Souderton’s Third Fridays. The dates are August 15, September 19 and October 17. Please consider signing up to help at the Zwingli Table. It is a great way to get Zwingli’s name and mission of our church out the community. A table and information to hand out will be available. Look for more information in the coming weeks.

On every 3rd Friday, from May through October, folks from all over flock to Souderton, PA for a monthly street event in the hollow. On these evenings, they meet up with friends, old and new, while shopping and enjoying music, food and beverages.
At every 3rd Friday event, Main Street is filled with local crafters and artists offering unique goods, service professionals providing information, nonprofits spreading positivity and two bands playing original and cover music. Enjoy the flavors of local food trucks, breweries and a distillery.
And, of course, the Kid’s Zone is a favorite of families with young children.
Experience local art and design galleries, which stay open late specifically for 3rd Friday. Venture up the hill and you’ll find unique dining, craft cocktails and a restored 100 year old cinema. Bring the family and invite your friends for a relaxing and fun time. Well behaved, leashed dogs are welcome too!

PENNRIDGE CROP WALK
2025-10-12 12:30 - 17:00 | St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, 20 Dill Ave, Perkasie PA
Pennridge CROP Hunger Walk invites YOU to participate in our 42nd annual walk to end hunger on Sunday, October 12, 2025.
Two routes are featured. Registration for both the five-mile route and the shorter “Golden Mile” route begins at 12:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church, 20 Dill Ave, Perkasie. The Walk, held rain or shine begins at 1:00 p.m. The longer route will include a stop at the Pennridge FISH pantry, the local recipient of Pennridge CROP Walk funds. Canned goods for Pennridge FISH will be collected at registration.

Those who find walking too difficult are invited to participate in a CROP Rock in the parking lot at St. Stephen’s UCC at the same time. Raise funds for CROP while rocking in your favorite rocking chair. Contact Pastor Jeff Wargo at St. Stephen’s UCC, Perkasie, for more details.

Twenty-five percent of all proceeds go to Pennridge FISH for local hunger use. The remaining funds will be used by Church World Service and its partner agencies for hunger and disaster relief in the US and globally. If you plan to walk, see Julie Neff for a sponsor form or instructions for registering on-line as a member of your congregation’s team. On-line donations are encouraged.

Youth Mission Trip Presentation
2025-10-12 10:30 - 11:30
🎉 You’re Invited! Join us for a special presentation as members of Zwingli’s Youth Group reflect on their transformative mission trip to Boston this past summer.
Through heartfelt stories and inspiring photographs, our youth will share how this journey deepened their faith, broadened their perspectives, and strengthened their bonds with one another and the communities they served.
This is not only a time to celebrate their experiences, but also an opportunity for them to express their gratitude to you—our generous and supportive congregation—whose encouragement and contributions made this mission possible.
Come be uplifted by their stories, and see firsthand the impact your support has made. We look forward to welcoming you!

Joint Adult bible Study led by Jonathan Widgins
2025-10-05 10:30 - 11:30

Still Going Strong
2025-10-02 12:00 - 14:00
Join us for our first meeting of the new season on October 2. As always, we will have a potluck luncheon. Bring lunch or dessert to share, along with ideas for this year’s gatherings. We will meet at noon in the atrium for great food, fellowship and making plans for the year.

Adult Electives - Transportation Resources by Jacqui Baxter-Rollins
2025-09-28 10:30 - 11:30
The Partnership For Transportation is a non-profit organization, established in 1993, dedicated to advancing transportation solutions that are accessible, affordable, safe, and sustainable. Through advocacy, education, and collaboration, it strives to increase connectivity, improve community health, support economic development, reduce carbon emissions, and improve air quality. Jacqui will share details about their innovative programs and services, highlight partnerships in the Souderton area, and discuss transportation challenges in the Indian Valley.

Rise Against Hunger
2025-09-27 12:00 - 14:00 | FLC
Zwingli will be partnering with Ridge Valley UCC and Trinity UCC for this summer’s mission project which targets remote, last-mile communities within hunger pockets designated as “serious” or higher on the Global Hunger Index. These locations are among the most difficult to reach. Access is challenging, communication limited, and infrastructure poor. Ridge Valley has been working with Rise Against Hunger every other year for 4 projects. Trinity started in 2023.
The actual packing day will be September 27th. Between the 3 churches we’ll be needing 35-60 volunteers. We’ll know the exact number by the beginning of September. This is a one-day event of about 4 hours including setup, packing, and cleanup.
You can learn more about the program by going to riseagainsthunger.org. As you watch one of the packing videos, you’ll notice that there are things to do for all ages. The day of the event RAH will provide everything including training.
To sign up for a specific shift go to:
https://riseagainsthunger.org/register/?id=701Pj00000WKP7yIAH
