Christian Sunday Worship Opportunities
Walking distance:
Roman Catholic Mass-- Bond Hall -10:00am
Swarthmore Friends Meeting
Style: Quaker Meeting
Location: Friends Meetinghouse
Swarthmore Presbyterian Church, Swarthmore
Style: Traditional Presbyterian service, with choir, hymnals, etc.
Location: In the Ville, next to Roberts’s Dorm.
Summer Services at 8:00am and 10:00am
Swarthmore United Methodist Church, Swarthmore
Style: Traditional Methodist service, with choir, hymnals, etc.
Location: In the Ville, by the library/fire station.
Summer Services at 9:30 am
Swarthmore Friends Meeting
Style: Quaker Meeting
Location: Friends Meetinghouse
Beginning Sept 8, breakfast/choir at 9:30am, meeting at 10:00am
Trinity Episcopal Church, Swarthmore
Style:Traditional Episcopalian church,congregation is drawn from the Swarthmore community
Location: In the Ville, by the college's main entrance (College and Chester)
Summer schedule (through Sept 15) – services at 8:00am and 10:00am.
Sept.-May: 8:00am Eucharist; 9:15 family service with folk music; 11 am sung Eucharist with full choir
Victoria Baptist Church
Style: Baptist; very traditional style music/sermon, very friendly and small (20 people) community
Location: It's down the Pike, left of Target from Swarthmore... within walking distance
Wesley AME
232 Bowdoin Avenue, Swarthmore
Phone 610-543-5778
Small, friendly, mostly African- American congregation, welcomes college students
The Blue Church, Springfield
Style: Baptist, non-denominational
Location: Baltimore Pike
SS-9a; worship at 10:15, 20-minute walk from campus.
Driving/public transport:
Blue Route Vineyard, Media & Ridley
Style: Vineyard, non-denominational, contemporary service with large college-aged and young family demographic.
Location: Media at 11:00am. There is an 11:30am service in Ridley that some students walk to.
Calvary Baptist
1616 West 2nd Street, Chester
Call for service times: 610-874-6717
Greek Orthodox Church of St Luke
35 N. Main Road
Broomall, Pennsylvania
(610) 353-1592
Holy Trinity Lutheran church (ELCA)
Location: about two miles south on Rte 320 (Chester Road)
Services: 9:00am
Iglesia Ni Cristo
2140 Bridegwater Road, Aston
Phone 610-859-9898
Spanish-speaking, non-denominational
Renewal Presbyterian Church in Devon
Style: Traditional Presbyterian service, contemporary worship, has a large college-aged population
Location: Delaware County Christian School, Devon
Grace Covenant Church in Bryn Mawr
Style: Nondenominational and contemporary worship with a large college crowd
Location: Bryn Mawr
Unitarian Society Of Delaware County
145 W. Rose Tree Road
Media, Pennsylvania
(610) 566-4853
Word Walking Empowerment Ministries, Chester
Style: Non-denominational, casual except for 1st Sunday and gospel music is played.
Location: 2315 W 11th Street, Chester TWP,PA19013 (in Chester)