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.
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2025 Thanksgiving Service
Thursday, November 27, 10:30 am (preludes at 10:00 am)
in the Asplundh Field House
We hope that you and your family will join us for worship on Thanksgiving morning. We all gather in the Asplundh Field House, enjoy special vocal and brass music, sing together, pray, bring forward an offering in a procession, and reflect on all that we have to be grateful for. All the details are below.
Topic: “Where Does It Come From?”
The Rev. Steven Gunther will be leading the service and offering a talk for the whole family. “Where Does It Come From?” — A lot of work and preparation goes into our Thanksgiving celebrations, but even before we do any of our work there are countless others whom we will probably never meet who have made it all possible. Similarly, the Lord is the source of all goodness that we experience in our lives, but we don’t necessarily see it. How can we give thanks to the Lord or these people who work “invisibly” to make the good things in our lives possible?
Timing, Location, and Parking
The service is on Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 27th) at 10:30 am. Special musical preludes start at 10:00. We recommend coming early to have time to find parking.
The service is in the Asplundh Field House. You can park in the lot in front of the Field House or in the gravel lot behind it, but this parking is limited. You can also park in the lots outside Pitcairn Hall and the Mitchell Performing Arts Center. You can then walk from those locations to the Field House or catch a ride on one of the white Bryn Athyn Church School vans.
If you are coming into the main parking lot at the Field House (to drop people off or to park), you can use either entrance. If you are coming in the entrance near the front doors of the Field House, please stay to the right if you are dropping someone off at the door and turn to the left if you are heading to park.
Van Shuttles
With the help of our wonderful volunteers, we are able to offer shuttles to transport attendees to and from certain locations. White Bryn Athyn Church School vans will pick up from Pitcairn Hall and the Mitchell Performing Arts Center. There will be continuous pick-ups starting at 10:00 am and drop-offs after the service. There will also be a shuttle for Cairnwood Village residents at 9:45 am.
Bring a Food Offering
You are invited to bring an offering of fruit, root vegetables, or winter squash. This follows an ancient practice of offering food as a way of worshiping the Lord and showing our gratitude. During the service there will be a procession when everyone processes to bring their offering forward to be put in baskets by the chancel. Those with limited mobility (or who just prefer to do so) may bring their offerings to the chancel before the service begins.
After the service, the offerings are sorted into gift baskets. These baskets will be distributed to people in our community who have recently lost a loved one and to others in need.
Special Music
We welcome the Penn View Brass Band (a 26-piece British-style brass band) again this year, playing preludes before the service, starting at 10:00 am. Please come early to enjoy the wonderful music!
The Choristers, our advanced children’s choir, will be singing the final prelude and an interlude.
Watch the Thanksgiving Day Service Online
For those who can’t attend in person, the service will be streamed live on the day and (as usual) the recording will also be available to watch at a later time.
Download the Thanksgiving Day Service Program (PDF).
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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