Norris Religious Fellowship

Norris Religious Fellowship We are people in relationship with one another and with God. Sunday Service 11 am Our membership is open to all and is not required to attend or become involved.

The Norris Religious Fellowship is an interdenominational community church which has grown from the desire of people with varied religious backgrounds to share experiences and to search together for spiritual enrichment. It seeks to provide opportunity for spiritual growth through a deeper appreciation of faith heritage and an understanding of the insights of the world's great religious faiths. Ou

r church community continues to build, hoping that those who join with us will find their burdens shared and their joys multiplied. We are a non-creedal church though we are composed of a number of individuals who come to us from creedal churches. As an inter-denominational church you can typically find former Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, Roman Catholics, Episcopalians, and non-Christian individuals in our pews. Many in our community have a wide-range of beliefs. You will find a fairly conservative theology and a fairly progressive theology sitting right next to one another in the pew. You will find these same people sharing opinions and views, differing widely in beliefs and allowing, tolerating, understanding, accepting the other persons’ views as being true for them, and therefore acceptable. We are a church that not only accepts and tolerates differences but encourages this diverse group to come together. It is an incredible mix. We also have a number of seekers who come to us from fairly fundamental or conservative churches who are looking for a different way of faith expression. We encourage seeking; and while not always providing answers, will help in the process of thinking and discovering. God is tolerant, loving and compassionate. We are co-creators of life with God and as such are asked to be loving and compassionate and tolerant of all, including ourselves.

This is your invitation to explore the act of exhale. We gather to rest, to listen to one another, to wait on God, to s...
06/21/2026

This is your invitation to explore the act of exhale. We gather to rest, to listen to one another, to wait on God, to sing to God, and let go of that, that we have held too long. The Lord beckons. Come as you are, to a God that loves you, just as you are.
All are invited. Church begins at 11.

May we find our burdens shared and the grace to soften the way.

Sunday, June 21, 2026, 11am
🔹 Season after Pentecost
Meditation & Call: Ginny Ireland
Morning Psalm: Psalm 88
Gospel: James 5:13-18
Sermon:
“Confess your Sins to One Another”
by Dr Bill Ireland, NRF Minister

🔹Nursery open 10:45-12:15
🔹Sunday School (on summer break)
🔹 View Sunday's bulletin online:
https://norrisrf.org/order-of-worship

🔹Pause at our Prayer Table in the back of the sanctuary for an opportunity to sign a notecard for someone who is in special need of prayer. You will also find our offering plate here, because all our gifts to God are prayerful offerings. We invite you to support church ministries by leaving an offering or by using the QR code to give electronically via paypal NorrisRF

🔹 We are a fellowship of God's people. An interdenominational church, worshiping in peace and harmony. As such, we are open, tolerant, accepting of you and your belief.

🔹First time visitor:
All are welcomed, no matter where you are on your personal journey. You will find love and support. Dress as you prefer. You will see a wide range of dress, from suits and dresses to shorts or jeans. We have parking in front of and behind the church. We recommend arriving a few minutes early to “settle in” before service. At the entrance, our greeters will warmly welcome you and hand you a bulletin that will help guide you through the service. We have no rules, and you are not under any obligation to do anything. We want you to simply receive what God has in store for you!

🔹 Our services are live streamed and stored on YouTube Channel: NorrisRF
You can easily watch or listen to any service at a time that works for you. While there, click thumbs up to let us know you checked us out and subscribe to get a notification when we go live.

"In things agreed upon unity, In other things liberty, In all things the will to be one.”

🔹 Photo: summer magnolia

🔹 Sanctuary Artwork:
"Christ and His Friend” discovered in 1900 by French archaeologist Jean Clédat in Bawit, Egypt. The original piece was painted on sycamore wood and is now displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The embrace can be seen to signify the new status we have with Christ. “He no longer calls us servants but rather friends”.
Another interesting detail to consider is that Christ has no feet while the friend has feet. The art draws us to contemplate that now we are being “sent out” to seek and reflect what it is to live the Christian life.
“Christ has no body now but yours, no feet on earth but yours.. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good.”


Norris Religious Fellowship 2026

06/17/2026

On June 20th in Oak Ridge, Tennessee you can head to the Lavender Festival at Historic Jackson Square for one of the most stunning events and best changes to browse local goods you’ll find throughout the year in the Volunteer State! This free festival runs from 8 AM to 4 PM and brings more than 150 artisan vendors into one of Oak Ridge’s most historic gathering places.

Long before it became a festival setting, Jackson Square was known as Town Center No. 1, opening in 1943 as the first major shopping and entertainment district for Manhattan Project workers and their families. During World War II, it had grocery stores, restaurants, a pharmacy, a theater, a bowling alley, and even places open around the clock for the secret city’s booming population.

Today, that same square fills with fresh lavender bouquets, soaps, oils, lavender honey, handmade crafts, local art, food trucks, nearby restaurants, wine and cider tastings, garden tours, speakers, demos, and live music on two stages. The farmers market runs from 8 AM to noon, and the free kids area is open from 10 AM to 4 PM.

06/17/2026

In just two weeks, Tennessee’s 3rd annual Blackberry Festival gets underway in the town of Powell, TN near Knoxville, always making for one of the best small-town events of the early summer in the Volunteer State! Set for Saturday, June 27th, this easygoing summer festival will take place at Powell Presbyterian Church on West Emory Road from 9 AM to 2 PM, with the day getting started even earlier as the 5K begins at 8 AM from Powell Middle School. The race route winds through the Broadacres neighborhood, takes runners over a few rolling hills, and finishes near the entrance to Broadacres, right across from the church where the festival fun will be waiting.

Once the festival is in full swing, visitors can enjoy food trucks, local vendors, fresh lemonade, sweet blackberry treats, handmade crafts, artwork, games, and plenty of small-town shopping in one relaxed spot. Live music is planned from noon until 2 PM, giving the afternoon that laid-back East Tennessee feel, while the Kid Zone adds extra fun for families with inflatables, games, and even a firetruck for kids to check out up close. Powell Presbyterian Church has been part of the Powell community since 1969, and proceeds from the race help support the church’s ministries, making the day feel even more connected to the local community. Parking will be available at Powell Middle and Powell High, with shuttle service running to and from the festival, making it easier to come out, walk around, grab a treat, browse the vendors, and enjoy one of the Knoxville area’s sweetest early-summer events.

All are welcome into this safe sanctuary, where we are invited to lay down our defenses and the worries we carry. For, ...
06/13/2026

All are welcome into this safe sanctuary, where we are invited to lay down our defenses and the worries we carry. For, it is our own human travels that become our essential journeys. Perhaps, it is in sharing our stories that we are able to be present and help heal and bear another’s burden.

May we find our burdens shared, our joys multiplied and the grace to soften the way.

Sunday, June 14, 2026, 11am
🔹 Season after Pentecost
Meditation & Call: Ginny Ireland
First Reading: Matthew 18:15-20
Sermon: “Bear One Another’s Burdens”
by Dr Bill Ireland, NRF Minister
Sermon Text: Galatians 6:1-5

🔹Nursery open 10:45-12:15
🔹Sunday School (on summer break)
🔹 View Sunday's bulletin online:
https://norrisrf.org/order-of-worship

🔹Pause at our Prayer Table in the back of the sanctuary for an opportunity to sign a notecard for someone who is in special need of prayer. You will also find our offering plate here, because all our gifts to God are prayerful offerings. We invite you to support church ministries by leaving an offering or by using the QR code to give electronically via paypal NorrisRF

🔹 We are a fellowship of God's people. An interdenominational church, worshiping in peace and harmony. As such, we are open, tolerant, accepting of you and your belief.

🔹First time visitor:
All are welcomed, no matter where you are on your personal journey. You will find love and support. Dress as you prefer. You will see a wide range of dress, from suits and dresses to shorts or jeans. We have parking in front of and behind the church. We recommend arriving a few minutes early to “settle in” before service. At the entrance, our greeters will warmly welcome you and hand you a bulletin that will help guide you through the service. We have no rules, and you are not under any obligation to do anything. We want you to simply receive what God has in store for you!

🔹 Our services are live streamed and stored on YouTube Channel: NorrisRF
You can easily watch or listen to any service at a time that works for you. While there, click thumbs up to let us know you checked us out and subscribe to get a notification when we go live.

"In things agreed upon unity, In other things liberty, In all things the will to be one.”

🔹 Photo: The see-through garden in June.

🔹 Artwork: “The Christ” Icon by, Brother Lavrans Nielsen, a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemane from 1957-76 R.I.P.
Brother Lavrans lived, worked and prayed alongside Thomas Merton.


Norris Religious Fellowship 2026

“They broke bread and ate together in reverence and holy awe.“ Come, all who are weary, those that may feel fear, those ...
06/06/2026

“They broke bread and ate together in reverence and holy awe.“ Come, all who are weary, those that may feel fear, those that hold hope, and those that hurt. Come with open hearts and bring your tender wounds. May you feel sheltered, may you feel peace, may you be well. May you feel the welcome here.

Season after Pentecost
Sunday, June 7, 2026, 11am
COMMUNION SUNDAY
🔹 All are invited to the Lord’s table,
as Christ’s welcome, and unconditional love and grace, extends to all who come.

Accompanist: Ethan Ferguson
Morning Text: Romans 13:8-10
Meditation & Call: Ginny Ireland
Sermon: Dr Bill Ireland, NRF Minister
"Love One Another"
John 13:34-35; 1 John 4:7-12

🔹Update: No Nursery Service Today.
🔹Sunday School (on summer break)
🔹 View Sunday's bulletin online:
https://norrisrf.org/order-of-worship

🔹Pause at our Prayer Table in the back of the sanctuary for an opportunity to sign a notecard for someone who is in special need of prayer. You will also find our offering plate here, because all our gifts to God are prayerful offerings. We invite you to support church ministries by leaving an offering or by using the QR code to give electronically via paypal NorrisRF

🔹 We are a fellowship of God's people. An interdenominational church, worshiping in peace and harmony. As such, we are open, tolerant, accepting of you and your belief.

🔹First time visitor:
All are welcomed, no matter where you are on your personal journey. You will find love and support. Dress as you prefer. You will see a wide range of dress, from suits and dresses to shorts or jeans. We have parking in front of and behind the church. We recommend arriving a few minutes early to “settle in” before service. At the entrance, our greeters will warmly welcome you and hand you a bulletin that will help guide you through the service. We have no rules, and you are not under any obligation to do anything. We want you to simply receive what God has in store for you!

🔹 Our services are live streamed and stored on YouTube Channel: NorrisRF
You can easily watch or listen to any service at a time that works for you. While there, click thumbs up to let us know you checked us out and subscribe to get a notification when we go live.

"In things agreed upon unity, In other things liberty, In all things the will to be one.”

🔹 Photo: NRF Sanctuary, bathed in blue evening light.

All are welcome. “It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptin...
05/31/2026

All are welcome. “It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.”
-Joan Chittister

Come, may your rest be a prayer.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
Trinity Sunday
Morning Psalm: Psalm 8
Sermon: “Five Essential Truths”
by Rev. Jack Conrad

🔹Sunday Greeters:
Jocelyn and Adam Trevino

🔹Coffee and Fellowship Hosts:
Joan Hughes

🔹We invite you to join us for refreshments in fellowship hall, following the Worship Service. If you are a newcomer, we invite you to introduce yourself so that we can greet and welcome you properly. However, we understand there are times where we might rather be anonymous for a while. We want you to be comfortable.
We are glad to have you with us today!

🔹 Pause at our prayer table in the back of the sanctuary for an opportunity to sign a notecard for someone in special need of prayer. You will also find our offering plate here, because all our gifts to God are prayerful offerings.

🔹First time visitor:
All are welcomed, no matter where you are on your personal journey. You will find love and support. Dress as you prefer. You will see a wide range of dress, from suits and dresses to shorts or jeans. We have parking in front of and behind the church. We recommend arriving a few minutes early to “settle in” before service. At the entrance, our greeters will warmly welcome you and hand you a bulletin that will help guide you through the service. We have no rules, and you are not under any obligation to do anything. We want you to simply receive what God has in store for you!

🔹 To view Sunday’s bulletin online: click the link in our weekly current e-news.

🔹We are a fellowship of God’s people.
An interdenominational church, worshiping in peace and harmony.
As such, we are open, tolerant, accepting of you and your belief.

“In things agreed upon unity,
In other things liberty,
In all things the will to be one.”

🔹 Photo: NRF Sanctuary

🔹 Artwork: “The Christ” Icon by, Brother Lavrans Nielsen, a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky from 1957-76 R.I.P.
Br. Lavrans is a nationally recognized artist whose works spanned multiple mediums in sacred and contemporary art. He lived, worked and prayed alongside Thomas Merton. His work included oil & acrylic painting, liturgical fabric banners, woodcuts, engravings and calligraphy for several texts. Perhaps, most notably contributing the illustrations to Merton’s books.


Norris Religious Fellowship 2026

All are welcome into this place, an oasis of stillness and quiet beauty in a world that can feel broken and foreign. Co...
05/24/2026

All are welcome into this place, an oasis of stillness and quiet beauty in a world that can feel broken and foreign. Come, may your rest be a prayer itself.

Sunday, May 24, 2026
Day of Pentecost
Morning Psalm: Psalm 104
Meditation & Call: Ginny Ireland
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 9:19-23
Sermon: “Another Take on a Pentecostal Church” by Dr Bill Ireland, NRF Minister

🔹 To view Sunday’s bulletin online: click the link in our weekly current e-news.

🔹Sunday Greeters:
Pat and Bob Gregory

🔹Childcare will be available

🔹Coffee and Fellowship: Please note there will be no coffee hour today, as set up for memorial service will be underway.

🔹 Pause at our prayer table in the back of the sanctuary for an opportunity to sign a notecard for someone in special need of prayer. You will also find our offering plate here, because all our gifts to God are prayerful offerings.

🔹First time visitor:
All are welcomed, no matter where you are on your personal journey. You will find love and support. Dress as you prefer. You will see a wide range of dress, from suits and dresses to shorts or jeans. We have parking in front of and behind the church. We recommend arriving a few minutes early to “settle in” before service. At the entrance, our greeters will warmly welcome you and hand you a bulletin that will help guide you through the service. We have no rules, and you are not under any obligation to do anything. We want you to simply receive what God has in store for you!

🔹We are a fellowship of God’s people.
An interdenominational church, worshiping in peace and harmony.
As such, we are open, tolerant, accepting of you and your belief.

“In things agreed upon unity,
In other things liberty,
In all things the will to be one.”

🔹 Photo: NRF Sanctuary, a welcoming oasis.


Norris Religious Fellowship 2026

All are invited to make a conscious, active decision to pause, step off the hamster wheel of daily stress, and savor the...
05/17/2026

All are invited to make a conscious, active decision to pause, step off the hamster wheel of daily stress, and savor the sweetness of God. Let us gather, as one body, for the pure pleasure of emptying and offering ourselves to be tuned by God.

Today we enjoy the Gift of Music from Cindy Edgecomb and Tom Kellar.
“Act Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly”

Sunday, May 17, 2026
Seventh Sunday of Easter Year A
Guest Accompanist: Ethan Ferugson
Morning Psalm: 120
Gospel Text:
Matthew 27:47-52; Luke 19:41-42
Sermon: “Fight Like Jesus”
Rev. Ginny Bridges Ireland

🔹 Sanctuary Artwork: "Lamb of God" painting by artist Tom Dubois.
This piece depicts Jesus’s triumphal entry riding a donkey through the town, touching the hands and exciting the hearts of the townspeople. Dubois’s style combines vibrant, rich colors with meticulous detail.

🔹 To view Sunday’s bulletin online: click the link in our weekly current e-news.

🔹Sunday Greeter: David Hughes

🔹Coffee and Fellowship Hosts:
Deborah Belford & Kathy Decker
All are invited to join in fellowship hall after morning worship for refreshments and relaxed conversations.

🔹 Pause at our prayer table in the back of the sanctuary for an opportunity to sign a notecard for someone in special need of prayer. You will also find our offering plate here, because all our gifts to God are prayerful offerings.

🔹We are a fellowship of God’s people.
An interdenominational church, worshiping in peace and harmony.
As such, we are open, tolerant, accepting of you and your belief.

“In things agreed upon unity,
In other things liberty,
In all things the will to be one.”

🔹 Photo: “the things that make for peace” This picture was taken in the color filled center of the beautiful outdoor Santuario Maria Desatadora de Nudos, Cancún, México.
The tradition here is to tie on a free white ribbon with your own concerns (represented as knots) and turning them over to one’s ultimate Source.
It is also said: the faithful return to the sanctuary to tie a ribbon of colors as a sign of gratitude and testimony to the power of prayer.


Norris Religious Fellowship 2026

Address

23 Dogwood Road
Norris, TN
37828

Opening Hours

Tuesday 9am - 3pm
Thursday 9am - 3pm
Sunday 9am - 1pm

Telephone

+18654947131

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