First Presbyterian Church of Weedsport
June 28, 2026
Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Rev. Brian Copeland
CHIMES (Preparing ourselves for worship)
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist
PRELUDE
OPENING SENTENCES (Responsive) Liturgist
This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Your love, O Lord, forever we will sing. From age to age, we will proclaim your faithfulness.
HYMN #443 O Christ, the Great Foundation
CONFESSION AND PARDON (Responsive) Liturgist
As we try to grow toward righteousness, we present ourselves to God in a spirit of honesty,
naming where we still obey sin and death instead of goodness and life.
God who provides our every need, you have given us countless gifts. You have welcomed us for all of who we are. You have showered us with steadfast love. You have freely given us eternal life in Christ Jesus. We do not deserve these gifts. We take them and squander them.
We continue to trust ourselves more than we trust you. We fail to embrace others as you have embraced us. Accept our confession. Be our glory and our strength for the days to come, our strength, shield, and deliverer.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION MAY BE OFFERED
Part of God’s provision for all of us is a well of forgiveness that never runs dry.
Thanks be to God! Amen.
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 13:1-6 Liturgist
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 10:40-42 Rev. Brian Copeland
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
SERMON Rev. Brian Copeland
HYMN #419 How Clear is Our Vocation, Lord
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 #408 Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life vs 1-4
BLESSING AND CHARGE
POSTLUDE
*LARGE PRINT BULLETINS ARE AVAILABLE. Please ask the greeter.
Reminders:
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 Weedsport Fire Department Auxiliary
July 26 – Marcellus will be worshipping with us in Weedsportj3
