First Presbyterian Church of Weedsport
June 14, 2026
Third Sunday after Pentecost
Rev. Brian Copeland
CHIMES (Preparing ourselves for worship.)
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist
PRELUDE
OPENING SENTENCES (Responsive) Liturgist
Serve the Lord with gladness; come into God’s presence with a song.
HYMN #434 Today We Are All Called to Be Disciples
CONFESSION AND PARDON (Responsive) Liturgist
God hears our voices and our supplications. We can call on God in all our joys, doubts,
successes, and failures. Knowing that God will listen, let us confess.
God of our salvation, incline your ear to us. You have given us power: power to heal, to bring hope, to comfort, to restore. But we ignore that power, choosing to live our own lives. At worst, we abuse that power, storing up riches for ourselves without an eye for the needs of others. Forgive us. Remind us of our call to proclaim your good news, and to welcome each other as we would welcome you.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION MAY BE OFFERED
The ancient words still bring truth today: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Praise be to God for this abounding love!
SPECIAL MUSIC
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION (Unison) Liturgist
Holy, Holy, Holy One, guide us by the Spirit of truth to hear the Word of life you speak, and to give all glory, honor, and praise to your threefold name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
FIRST SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19 Liturgist
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 9:35-10:8 (9-23) Rev. Brian Copeland
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
SERMON Rev. Brian Copeland
HYMN: (Insert) God Will Take Care of You
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH (Unison) Adapted from the Confession of 1967, 9.32–33
The life, death, resurrection, and promised coming of Jesus Christ has set the pattern for the church’s mission. His human life involves the church in the common life of all people. His service to men and women commits the church to work for every form of human well-being.
His suffering makes the church sensitive to all human suffering so that it sees the face of Christ in the faces of persons in every kind of need. His crucifixion discloses to the church God’s judgment on the inhumanity that marks human relations, and the awful consequences
of the church’s own complicity in injustice. In the power of the risen Christ and the hope of his coming, the church sees the promise of God’s renewal of human life in society and of God’s victory over all wrong. The church follows this pattern in the form of its life and in the method of its action. So to live and serve is to confess Christ as Lord.
JOYS AND CONCERNS
PRAYERS OF INTERCESSION AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
Let us pray in the Spirit, who helps us in our weakness, interceding with sighs too deep for words. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.
INVITATION TO THE OFFERING (Offering plates are not passed. Offering plates are on the front and back tables.)
PRAYER OF DEDICATION (Unison)
God of unending gifts, we praise you for your abundant goodness. As you are generous, we want to be generous too. May the gifts we bring extend your generosity into the world, so that all people may be made whole by your goodness and grace. Amen.
HYMN #286 Give to the Wins Thy Fears
BLESSING AND CHARGE
POSTLUDE
*LARGE PRINT BULLETINS ARE AVAILABLE. Please ask the greeter.
Reminders:
June 22 – Doug’s to Go to benefit Weedsport Fire Department Auxiliary
July 2 – Blood Drive
July 19 – We will be worshipping with our friends at MFPC at 9:30 a.m.
July 24 – Doug’s to Go to benefit WFPC
July 26 – Marcellus will be worshipping with us in Weedsport
