Worship Services

SUNDAY WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

✝️ EASTER!

Hi Friends!

Every spring, just as the earth begins to wake from its long winter rest, the church gathers to proclaim the most astonishing truth we know: Christ is risen. Not as a metaphor, not as a memory, but as a living reality that continues to break open the world with hope.

Easter is God’s great declaration that death does not get the final word—about Jesus, about us, or about the world we inhabit. The resurrection is not only an event we celebrate; it is a life we are invited to enter. Easter calls us to new life, not someday, but now.

New life can be quiet and subtle, like that first daffodil pushing its leaves up through cold soil. It can also be bold and surprising, like the stone rolled away before anyone expected it. Sometimes new life looks like forgiveness we didn’t think was possible. Sometimes it looks like courage we didn’t know we had. Sometimes it looks like a community discovering fresh ways to love, serve, and grow together.

The good news of Easter is that God is still creating, still renewing, still calling us forward. The risen Christ meets us in the places we feel stuck, weary, or uncertain, and whispers, “This is not the end. There is more life for you yet.”

As a congregation, we are invited to listen for where that new life is stirring among us—where God is nudging us toward deeper compassion, wider welcome, and renewed purpose. As individuals, we are invited to trust that the Spirit is already at work within us, planting seeds of grace that will bloom in their own time.

My prayer this Easter season is that we will open our hearts to the new life God is offering. May we notice it. May we nurture it. And may we step boldly into the resurrection hope that continues to transform the world, one life at a time.

Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia!

Blessings!
Pastor Kirk
Trust God, Clean House, Help Others

🙏 SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES
Join us each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. as our church family gathers for worship, music, prayers and a Bible-based sermon.

Children stay with their families in church through the children’s sermon, then leave for Sunday school. On the first Sunday, children stay in church with their families. Packets with stories, puzzles, coloring pages, etc. are available for children during the worship service. There is a nursery for infants through preschool children.

After worship service come and enjoy a time of fellowship with others over light refreshments in Gillespie Hall. It’s a great time to visit informally.

COMMUNION (1st Sunday)
Is April 1st!
We partake in Communion by intinction. This practice involves breaking off a smaller piece of bread from a larger loaf. Then, we dip it into consecrated wine (or juice) before consuming. The Pastor breaks apart a larger loaf of bread. We break off smaller pieces and dip them into a communal goblet of wine (or juice). If you are unsure how to join, but would like to join in Communion, don’t worry about the details. Simply watch the folks around you. Follow their lead.
We also offer a gluten free choice for the convenience of those with certain allergies.

If you can’t attend our worship service, here is the link for the live recorded service on Community Presbyterian YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnd4Ceiw1Eo_TcIEaNuMGbw

NOISY BUCKETS (1st Sunday)
The Noisy Bucket offering is collected on the third Sunday of each month, with the children shaking tin buckets as those in the congregation donate their coins (green is accepted). This offering is donated monthly to the Box Elder Community Pantry to help those with food insecurity.

FLOW OF SERVICE
Never been to a Presbyterian worship service and don’t know what to expect?
There are weekly exceptions, but the general flow of our worship service is as follows- Greetings & Announcements (10:30 a.m.)
– Musical Prelude to Worship
– Lighting of the Christ Candle
– Praise & Worship (in song)
– Unison Prayer of Confession
– Call & Response
– Gloria Patri (song)
– Children’s Sermon (the children are invited to sit around Pastor Kirk up front)
– Hymn (song)
– Giving of Tithes & Offerings
– Doxology (song)
– Prayer of Dedication (over the offerings given)
– Sharing of Prayer Requests, Concerns, & Praises from the Congregation
– Prayer (Pastor), which ends with a prompt for the Congregation to join together in praying The Lord’s Prayer in unison
– Musical Prelude to the Pastor bringing the Word of God
– Scripture Reading
– Sermon
– Hymn (song)
– Benediction (generally around 11:45 a.m.)
– Musical Postlude