Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill

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An inclusive Community of faith, committed to excellence in worship, music and the arts, education and outreach.

An Invitation

Strengthen Our Foundation, Transform Our Future

As we have been welcomed by Christ into the covenant of God’s love, so our church is becoming, more and more, a home where all can find a place to belong. 

With each renovation, we have welcomed people seeking a community that values openness and inquiry, beauty and grace, justice and self-giving love. 




Join The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, an inclusive community on the Hill, for mission, music, and fellowship.

If you are reading this as someone willing to come as close to organized religion as reading the first page of a church’s website, please read on.  The church that goes with this website is a community organized to gather once a week for worship, to make exceptional music, and to work in our community to feed the growing numbers of hungry men, women and children in Philadelphia, to end gun violence in the city (a big dream, I will grant you—but we dream big here), to make health care available in the Northwest to those with no resources and to join with others in giving shelter to the homeless.

But we also are a community organized to gather for another distinctive reason: to wrestle together with the big questions. For instance, if you are retired, out of work or home during the day, we gather on Wednesday mornings at 11 o’clock to discuss the complex and often disturbing stories found in the book of Genesis. Be assured, this conversation plumbs the depths of biblical literature in order to ask what its characters reveal about being human and what the character of God has to do with our lives.  Likewise on Tuesday night, people gather (some who have never walked through the door of our church) for Theology on Tap. Director of Youth and Senior Adults Brian Russo starts the conversation with a question that often has no answer. For a few hours and with a pitcher of beer, a diverse crowd speaks from every conceivable theological perspective.  Many of the younger participants in these discussions also continue the conversation in another gathering called God:Search.

If you sometimes end a week of your life feeling as though you have not had a chance to talk with others about anything other than the weather, the work at hand or whatever the media might by hyping, consider showing up for one of these conversations. It just might be worth your life.

--Cynthia A. Jarvis