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The large stained glass window in the west wall above the front entrance establishes the style, stance, and tone of ministry which this church desires to offer to its community and the world. The window portrays Jesus preaching "The Sermon on the Mount", the "Good News of the Kingdom of God upon the Earth", to the first century disciples. We too are called to discipleship and we respond by our obedience to our vows of church membership in which we pledge our loyalty to our church and our support by our prayers, our attendance, our gifts and our service.

To many people, this is known as the Halenbeck Window as it was given in memory of Mrs. Grace Weiss Halenbeck and her parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Weiss, by Dr. Halenbeck.  It was completed when the church opened in 1956.

The artist was Mr. Silianoff of Pittsburgh Stained Glass Studios in Pennsylvania.  The window, consisting of 20 units, is approximately 16 feet wide and 12 feet high. The frame is aluminum with obsessed glass for protection.  That is, there is plain glass window on the outside which does not in any way distract from the biew of the artistic window. Nearly 2,000 pieces of antique-type stained glass, of hundreds of colors and thicknesses, have been fitted in by hand into lead canes and then hammered in place. The thickness of each piece of glass varies from 1/8^th to 3/8^th inch, because this is what designated the depth of color. So we see then that the pieces are not uniform in thickness as a rolled glass would be.  Approximately one hundred different colors and textures of glass were used.  The dark colored pieces are not made in the United States but are foreign.  The light colored ones are domestic.