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Community Contemplative Prayer returns to Georgetown for another season. From September, 2023 through May, 2024, San Gabriel Presbyterian Church, 5404 Williams Drive, Georgetown, TX will host an open, interfaith gathering. One Sunday per month at 6:30 pm, the Georgetown Ecumenical Wholeness Service will offer a space and time for all to come to pray together. In a candlelit room, on a backdrop of both classical music and Taizé monastic chant, pastors and musicians from churches across Williamson County will lead services focused on healing, intercession, and scripture. Open communion will be served. 

The topical focus for 2023-24 is Pursuing Peace. Meetings take place on these dates:

Worship Services

September 24            Love Your Neighbor
October 22                Be Not Afraid
November 19             From Anger to Peace
December 17             Peace for All
January 28                Peace Within
February 25              Forgiving Peace
March 24                   Believing in Peace
April 28                     Power of Peace
May 26                      Responsible Peace

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* Except for November and December, services take place every 4th Sunday

In addition to our regular worship gatherings, we will host two additional events:

August 27                     Singalong Social
November 1                 All Saints’ Observance (Outdoors in the church Columbarium)


Location: 5404 Williams Drive, Georgetown, TX 78633

A Brief History of the Wholeness Service

Founded in the late 1990’s by Dr. George Biggs of First Presbyterian Church, Georgetown, TX, the Wholeness Service began as a small prayer meeting. On a few Sunday evenings at sunset, Biggs invited friends and neighbors to join him in a circle. The group sang hymns and read scripture together. They lit candles to symbolize private prayers. Ordained ministers laid hands on them, praying with them and anointing them with oil; counseling them when requested. The meetings took place every month, following a template that may be found in many Christian books of common worship, and made a significant impact on Biggs’ congregation. Soon, pastors from other area churches joined the leadership circle and the small Service of Healing and Wholeness grew beyond the walls of First Presbyterian Church. Songs and prayers from Taizé, music based on the haunting chants of early Christianity, eventually replaced traditional hymns, adding an extra dimension to the meditative atmosphere. Today, with an updated name and a tradition established over 20 years ago, the Georgetown Ecumenial Wholeness Service welcomes a community-wide congregation, some of the area’s finest musicians, and ministers across both Travis and Williamson counties. 

As we return this year, the Wholeness Service invites everyone, churched and unchurched, to come together and pray. At San Gabriel Presbyterian Church, Georgetown, attendees may sit in an open, well-ventilated space, either with a group or alone, as they sing, pray, or simply listen. Unique among the worship experiences in its community, the Wholeness Service is also unique in the place, or places it calls home. Interdenominational and carefully focused on scripture rather than doctrine, this event has taken place in many area buildings. To date, First Presbyterian Church, First United Methodist Church, Wellspring, a United Community of Faith, and San Gabriel Presbyterian Church, all of Georgetown, Texas, have hosted the Wholeness Service. Many other area churches count themselves as active worship partners. 

Join us for another season

The Wholeness Service likes to say, “All are welcome, all are embraced.” For us, the place may change from season to season, but the mission is the same: pray for each other, pray for the world, and spend a quiet hour with God. Join the Georgetown Ecumenical Wholeness Service for a peaceful season of candlelight, contemplative prayer.

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