Welcome to the Bryn Athyn Community Calendar
This community calendar is run by the Bryn Athyn Church to help people know what all is going on in Bryn Athyn on a particular day.
Click the links or scroll down to the bottom of the page if you have questions about how to use the calendar, have questions about specific events, or want to add something to this calendar.
Easter Family Service & Scenes
April 20 @ 9:30 am - 10:15 am
Easter Family Festival Services (9:30 & 11 am – Nave)
Rev. Derek P. Elphick
FLOWER OFFERING: To celebrate the Lord’s resurrection, the congregation is invited to bring an offering of flowers or potted plants to the chancel at the beginning of either service.
EASTER WALK: If you have not done the Easter Walk (see below), you can do so before or after either service. For more information, visit www.brynathynchurch.org/easter.
PLEASE NOTE: The 9:30 and 11:00 am services will be identical family services, both in the nave. There is NO Informal Family or Young Children’s Service on Easter.
Download the program here (PDF).
Easter Walk (Sunrise to Sunset – Cathedral Grounds)
This year, we invite you to come and enjoy the Easter story, as told in the Gospels, in the beautiful setting of our Cathedral gardens (grounds). There will be a welcome sign just before the porte-cochère that will direct you to enter through the garden arch to see the Last Supper table that Jesus had with his disciples while he was still here on Earth. From there, you will follow our signs, which have text from the Gospels detailing the main events of the Easter story. You will finish at the Alpha/Omega garden by reading about the Lord ascending to heaven in front of His disciples.
Please take your time on this walk! Allow yourself to absorb and meditate on the words of the Gospel as you go. Give yourself time for prayer and listening to God as you take in this powerful and emotional story.
If you have young children with you, you may pick up an activity booklet at the Welcome sign. The booklet has modified text to read to your child, and they will collect a sticker at each sign to put in the appropriate place in their booklet.
This experience will be ready for you beginning at sunrise on Good Friday and continuing through sunset on Easter Sunday. Please feel free to come and enjoy it any time that the grounds are open during Easter weekend. This is in place of the Easter Scenes with actors that we have done for the past few years on Easter Sunday.
Easter Zoom Discussion (11:30am – Zoom)
There will be an online small-group discussion of the Easter service, hosted by the team that regularly meets on Sundays to discuss the Informal Family Service. All are welcome. These meetings usually last 60-75 minutes. Join the meeting.
*NO Informal Family or Young Children’s Service on Easter Sunday.
Live stream the Easter services.
Related Events
Using the Calendar
It Will Display Differently on Your Phone
Some of the features of this calendar only work when viewing on a bigger screen. If you’re on a phone, look for these icons to search and change your view.
When you tap on the magnifying glass, a search box will appear below the color-coded categories. Use the icon on the right to change between month and list views. List view is recommended for mobile use.
The Reset Calendar Button Is Your Friend
If the calendar is behaving strangely, start over again by clicking Reset Calendar. It’s at the end of the color-coded categories.
Click on an Event for More Information
Many events have more details than will display at first. On a computer you can hold your mouse over an event title to see a summary of the description. On a computer or a phone, if you click the title of the event it will display more information, often including links to the full details for the event – the location, the cost of the event, where to buy tickets, etc.
Search
There’s a search box that you can use to search for when specific events are (e.g. you could search for Community Worship to know when the next Community Worship services are). It doesn’t work to search for a specific date to see what’s happening on that date. After you search, make sure that you’re in List View to see events from more than the current month.
Go to a Specific Date
To jump to a specific date, click the ⌄ next to today’s date and select the date or month you want to go to.
See Only Events from Certain Calendars
If you click one of the color-coded category labels, it will show you only events for that institution. (You may want to switch to List view to see events for more than the current month.)
On the left-hand side, under Filters, click the + next to Select Calendars to View and then click the checkboxes for which institutions you would like to see events from. This doesn’t seem to be working in mobile view at the moment.
Other Notes
This is kind of clunky
Yup. This calendar isn’t as good-looking or user-friendly as it could be but we decided to make it available to you anyway, before we have all the bugs worked out. If you might be able to help make it work better, please get in touch (malcolm.smith@brynathynchurch.org).
Want to Add Something to the Calendar?
Before you contact us to add something to the calendar, please read these notes:
- This calendar is for events happening in the 19009 zip code and generally for events at least somewhat associated with the Bryn Athyn Church or General Church.
- This calendar is for events that are relevant to a large group of people. We are not, for example, including the complete ANC Secondary Schools and Bryn Athyn College athletics calendars in this community calendar because all of those games would not be relevant to a large enough group of people. (You can, however, find links to those calendars below.)
- We reserve the right to remove your event or not add your event to the calendar.
- Rather than adding your events manually we would prefer you to set up a digital calendar and then send us the feed from it so that we can add your events automatically.
More questions? Get in touch with Malcolm (malcolm.smith@brynathynchurch.org)
Have Questions About Specific Events? Don’t Ask Us
We are pulling in digital calendars from a variety of institutions. If you have questions about a particular event, please contact the institution who is putting that event on (see below). Bryn Athyn Church staff will not be able to answer your questions.
ANC Secondary Schools
Go to ancss.org, call 267-502-2500, or find their complete academic, athletic, social, and performing arts calendars here.
Bryn Athyn Borough
Go to brynathynboro.org or visit their Facebook page.
(BACS) Bryn Athyn Church School
Go to brynathynchurchschool.org or call (215) 947-4086.
Bryn Athyn College
Find calendars of Bryn Athyn College events here.
Bryn Athyn Church
Check the homepage, call (215) 947-6225, or email info@brynathynchurch.org.
C & S Club (Bryn Athyn Civic and Social Club)
Check their Facebook page.
Cairnwood Estate
Go to cairnwood.org, call (215) 947-2004, or email info@cairnwood.org.
Cairnwood Village
Call (215) 947-7705, email cairnwood.village.manager@gmail.com, or go to cairnwoodvillage.org.
Glencairn Museum
Go to glencairnmuseum.org, call (267) 502-2600, or email info@glencairnmuseum.org.
Junge Pavilion / Ice Rink
Go to their page on the Bryn Athyn College website or visit their Facebook page.
Mitchell Performing Arts Center
Go to mitchellcenter.info, call (267) 502-2793, or see their complete rehearsal calendar.
NewChurch Live
Go to newchurchlive.tv or call (215) 947-2166.
Other
These events come from a variety of places. Click on the title for the individual event to learn more. To find out more about Bryn Athyn Boy Scout Troop 97 events go to batroop97.org