First Presbyterian Church of Weedsport
August 2, 2026
Rev. Brian Copeland
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
CHIMES (Preparing ourselves for worship.)
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist
PRELUDE
OPENING SENTENCES (Responsive) Liturgist
God is great and greatly to be praised; There is no end to God’s greatness.
God’s kingdom is an everlasting kingdom; God’s dominion endures throughout all ages.
HYMN #476 O Worship the King, All Glorious Above
CONFESSION AND PARDON (Responsive) Liturgist
When we call upon God, God answers. Even when our steps stray from God’s path,
even when our feet slip, God listens to us and answers our prayers.
Let us offer our prayer of confession.
Generous God, you freely offer us all we need. You offer us the bread of life, so we may never be hungry again. You offer us living water, so we will never thirst. But we scoff at your gifts, wasting our money, time, and energy on things that do not satisfy. Forgive us and call to us again, reminding us of your gifts of new life that are ours if we would only accept them.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION MAY BE OFFERED
Incline your ear, listen: God makes an everlasting covenant with us.
God forgives us, renews us, refreshes us, and leads us onward. Thanks be to God!
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 17:1-7, 15 Liturgist
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 14:13-21 Rev. Brian Copeland
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
SERMON Rev. Brian Copeland
HYMN #513 Let Us Break Bread Together
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 INTERCESSON AND THE LORD’S PRAYER (Hymnal p. 16 Traditional)
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.)
DOXOLOGY (Hymn 592)
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.
GREAT THANKSGIVING
The Lord be with you. And also with you.
Lift up your hearts. We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. It is right to give our thanks and praise.
Blessed are you, O Lord our God: You have made an everlasting covenant with us,
the promise of your faithfulness and steadfast love. Even when we struggle against you, you never let us go.
Therefore we praise you, joining the song of the universal church and the heavenly choir:
A Sanctus (“Holy, holy, holy”) is sung.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
HYMN #345 Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
BLESSING AND CHARGE
POSTLUDE
*LARGE PRINT BULLETINS ARE AVAILABLE. Please ask the greeter.
Reminders:
Aug. 10 – our turn at the Food Pantry
Aug. 21 – Sennett Federated Potter’s Pop-Up Kitchen
Sept. 18 – Doug’s to Go fundraiser at WFPC to benefit the Weedsport Good Samaritan Fund
Sept. 25 – Sennett Federated Potter’s Pop-Up Kitchen
Oct. 3 & 4 – Honor Flight bottle and can drive
Oct. 16 – Sennett Federated Potter’s Pop-Up Kitchen
Oct. 18 – Joint worship with MFPC at MFPC at 11 a.m.
