We assemble on Sundays to celebrate our relationship with God and one another. Though we worship God with all of our lives from day to day, when we gather together it is a special time of encouragement and community worship. We sing, we pray, we listen and we learn. We bring tithes and offerings to acknowledge that since God gave His best for us we will bring our best to Him to support the work He has called us to at Chibana. We remember Jesus’ death and the purpose of His coming to earth as we share the Lord's Supper. This is a unique time of humbly remembering what Jesus accomplished on the cross and joyfully celebrating the forgiveness of our sins.

For those not familiar with Churches of Christ, a few things will stand out as different from most other churches:

1. We don't use musical instruments in worship. This is a distinctive of the Churches of Christ and is derived from our desire to worship simply and in the same way as the early New Testament church. Musical accompaniment in worship was not a part of the practice of the earliest Christians, so we leave it out of our practices as well. 
2. We celebrate the Lord's Supper every Sunday. We do this because it is clear from the New Testament and early church history that the early Christians met weekly to 'break bread' and worship together. This 'breaking bread' refers to the Lord's Supper- which Jesus himself instituted- telling his discples to 'do this in remembrance of me' (Luke 22:19).
3. We don't have clergy.  We believe that all Christians are a 'holy priesthood' (1 Peter 2:5) and therefore equal with no distinctions.  Churches of Christ, therefore, do not ordain ministers or give them special titles, such as 'Reverend' or 'Pastor.'  We believe the New Testament leadership model is a simple one of deacons (men entrusted with a specific area of service) and elders (men entrusted with teaching and spiritual leadership).

It is our prayer that these distinctive practices will not cause confusion, but be understood as our sincere desire to follow the old slogan of the movement (The American Restoration Movement) from which Churches of Christ were born: "Speak where the Bible speaks, and be silent where the Bible is silent."