SUNDAY WORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Hi Friends!
Summer seems to have flown by once again. Students are heading back to school, teachers are preparing classrooms, and families are settling into new routines. As a congregation, we offer our prayers and blessings to all who are beginning a new school year.
As we enter this new season, our church is also beginning an important journey together through our Mission Study. This process gives us an opportunity to prayerfully reflect on who we are as a congregation, where God has been leading us, and where God may be calling us in the future.
Throughout Scripture, God’s people have regularly paused to seek His direction. Before moving forward, they listened, prayed, reflected, and discerned God’s will together. A Mission Study invites us to do the same. It is more than a planning exercise. It is a spiritual journey that helps us better understand our identity as a church and our calling to serve Christ in our community.
One of the most important parts of this process is participation from the entire congregation. The Mission Study Team will be guiding the work, but the study itself belongs to all of us. We want to hear from every voice in our church family. In the coming weeks, questionnaires will be distributed to the congregation. I encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully and prayerfully complete them. Your experiences, hopes, concerns, ideas, and dreams for the future are valuable. Every voice matters.
As we begin this process, let us remember that our goal is not simply to create plans for the future. Our goal is to discover where God is already at work and how we are being called to join Him. God has been faithful throughout the history of this congregation, and I guarantee God has a purpose and a future for us still.
Please pray for the Mission Study Team, pray for our congregation, and most importantly, participate in the process. Together we can listen for God’s voice and discern the path He is setting before us.
May God guide us, unite us, and give us the courage to follow wherever He leads.
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 except on Communion Sundays. Then, the 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.
We want our children to know of God’s love and history of interaction with humanity. Bible stories, lessons on kindness and love, fellowship with other children and so much more are part of Sunday school for ages K-8. Children remain in church through the children’s sermon, then leave for Sunday school, except on Communion Sundays. Regular Sunday school will begin on Sunday, September 20. We hope your children will all be present to start the new season.
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 September 6
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
Worship is casual. Come as you are!
PENTECOST SUNDAY, May 25, 2026
EASTER SUNDAY, April 5, 2026
PALM SUNDAY, March 29, 2026
NEW CHURCH MEMBERS 2026
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