First Presbyterian Church of Weedsport
June 21, 2026
Rev. Brian Copeland
CHIMES (Preparing ourselves for worship)
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Liturgist
PRELUDE
OPENING SENTENCES (Responsive) Liturgist
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear;
what a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.
HYMN #405 What Does the Lord Require
CONFESSION AND PARDON (Responsive) Liturgist
We have died to sin; yet we continue to live in it. God’s grace abounds so we might move past our sins. Trusting that promise, let us confess.
Gracious God, we try to follow your word: to put others above ourselves, to remember that we are all bound together as your beloved children, to seek the common good instead of our own interests. But it is so easy for our lesser selves to get the better of us. We succumb to jealousy, vindictiveness, callousness, and indifference. In your mercy, send your healing to those we have hurt, and to our own misguided souls so that we may follow you once more.
SILENT PRAYERS OF CONFESSION MAY BE OFFERED
We are united in Christ’s life, death, and resurrection: he has saved us from sin so that we might live in God.
Thanks be to Jesus Christ, who frees us from sin!
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 34:11-22 Liturgist
SECOND SCRIPTURE READING: Mark 5:1-20 Rev. Brian Copeland
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
SERMON Rev. Brian Copeland
HYMN #369 I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me
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 (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.)
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 #354 Guide My Feet
BLESSING AND CHARGE
POSTLUDE
*Large print bulletins are available. Please ask the greeter.
Reminders:
Worship will be held in the Fellowship Hall for July and August.
June 22 – Doug’s to Go to benefit Weedsport Fire Dept. Auxiliary
July 2 – Blood Drive
July 12 & 19– We will be worshipping with our friends at MFPC at 9:30 a.m.
