SUNDAY MORNINGS
Worship 9:30am | Adult Study 11:00am
Coffee Fellowship: Immediately after Morning Worship.
Worship Services
Childcare provided for infants to age 3. Older children are excused to Church School in mid-service. American Sign Language interpretation is provided.
Communion is served on the first Sunday of each month, and weekly during the seasons of Advent and Lent. Everyone in attendance is welcome to participate.
Baptisms take place during Sunday morning worship. For adults or youth, baptisms occur as part of the reception of new members. Infant baptisms are prearranged with the pastors.
Music
The Chancel Choir, directed by Nancy Kromm, is augmented by pipe organ, piano and other instruments. We also have a children’s choir.
Choir Director
Nancy Kromm earned her degrees at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, did post-graduate studies at Stanford University and is Associate Professor/Voice at Santa Clara University. She is a frequent performer, conductor and director outside Stone Church. She was the soprano soloist on the Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Symphony recording of Nielsen’s Third Symphony, London Decca recordings.
Organist
Barbara Vella was born and raised in the Bay Area. She studied organ at San Jose State College and piano at CSU Sacramento. She has extensive experience as a church organist and as an accompanist for choral groups, school choirs, and soloists. She began her organist career at Foothill Community Presbyterian Church on McKee Road in San Jose when she was 18. She has lived in several places in California and was always an organist wherever she lived. In Grass Valley, she served as organist for the Sierra United Presbyterian Church in Nevada City, and when living in Monterey she was organist at the First Presbyterian Church in Monterey. When she moved back to San Jose, she served as organist at Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Saratoga under the direction of Leroy Kromm. Currently she is accompanist for the San Jose Symphonic Choir.
Art
Paraments
Jeanette Rapp leads our congregation’s Liturgical Arts Group in designing and creating the paraments — beautiful ornamental hangings and vestments — in our sanctuary that change with the seasons and festivals of the Christian year.
The colors of the seasons and festival days that we observe at Stone Church are:
- Advent — purple
- Christmas — white
- Lent — purple
- Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week — purple
- Good Friday — no paraments
- Easter — white
- Pentecost — red
- Ordinary Time — green
Six Great Ends of the Church Project
In 2022, the Liturgical Arts Group finished a six-year project to create banners illustrating the Six Great Ends of the Church, which are part of the constitution of the Presbyterian Church (USA). These banners are displayed together across the back wall of our sanctuary and, depending upon the liturgical season, the appropriate banner hangs beneath our round, stained-glass window of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane at the front of the congregation.
The Six Great Ends of the Church are (banners left to right):
- The proclamation of the Gospel for the salvation of humankind
- The shelter, nurture, and spiritual fellowship of the children of God
- The maintenance of divine worship
- The preservation of the truth
- The promotion of social righteousness
- The exhibition of the Kingdom of Heaven to the world
Bulletin Covers
Lynden Keith Johnson, a multimedia artist and Chancel Choir member whose work is owned by many families in our community, creates original art for our bulletin covers. You may contact him through his Facebook page.
