First Presbyterian Church of Weedsport
June 7, 2026
Second Sunday after Pentecost
Rev. Brian Copeland
CHIMES (Preparing ourselves for worship.)
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist
PRELUDE
OPENING SENTENCES (Responsive) Liturgist
O give thanks to the Lord, for God is judge.
Let us offer God a sacrifice of thanksgiving.
HYMN #430 Come Sing, Oh Church, In Joy
CONFESSION AND PARDON (Responsive) Liturgist
Christ came for us in the midst of our sins. Knowing that Jesus meets us where we are, let us offer our prayers of confession.
Merciful God, we acknowledge our guilt and seek your face and your forgiveness. For we have not offered steadfast love to you or each other. We have not moved forward in faith but have allowed ourselves to be stifled by fear. Revive us, raise us up, that we might live before you, rejoicing in the knowledge of your love.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION MAY BE OFFERED
People of God, hear and believe the good news: Christ came to bring healing, forgiveness, and new life to all who sin and suffer.
In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!
SPECIAL MUSIC
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINIATION (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 33:1-12 Liturgist
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 Rev. Brian Copeland
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
SERMON Rev. Brian Copeland
HYMN: (Insert) Will You Let Me Be Your Servant?
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.
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 shared a meal with Abraham and Sarah and promised them that in due season they would become the ancestors of a great people.
Therefore we praise you, joining the song of the universal church and the heavenly choir:
A Sanctus (“Holy, holy, holy”) is sung.
BREAKING THE BREAD
COMMUNION OF THE PEOPLE
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
HYMN: (Insert) The Church of Christ Cannon Be Bound
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
