Worship Services
Join us for worship each Sunday at 11:00 a.m. as we gather together in faith, fellowship, prayer, Scripture, and song. Throughout the year, we also offer special worship services that mark the seasons of the Christian calendar, including Ash Wednesday, Easter, Christmas Eve worship, and other special services. These gatherings provide opportunities to celebrate, reflect, and experience the presence of God together. Below you fill find past orders of worship, also known as bulletins, which we use in our worship every Sunday. Feel free to bring your tablet to worship and download a bulletin for use!
Worship in the PC (U.S.A)
Reformed worship in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is centered on the Word of God and the Sacraments, gathered around the belief that God calls the church together, meets us in worship, and sends us into the world to serve. Worship is participatory rather than a performance: the congregation joins together in prayer, song, Scripture, proclamation, and the celebration of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
A typical PC(USA) worship service follows a four-part pattern:
1. Gathering
God calls the congregation together. This may include a prelude, welcome & announcements, opening hymn, call to worship, prayer, and a prayer of confession. We acknowledge that we come before God needing grace because we are perfect, but because God is gracious.
2. The Word
The congregation listens for God through Scripture and its proclamation. Readings from the Old and New Testaments, a Gospel reading, prayer for illumination, the sermon, and an affirmation of faith may be included. The sermon seeks to interpret Scripture faithfully and connect the biblical witness with the life of the congregation and the world.
3. The Sacraments/ Table & Font
The PC(USA) recognizes Baptism and the Lord’s Supper as the two Sacraments instituted by Jesus Christ. When celebrated, they are not simply illustrations or symbols but visible signs of God's grace and promises. The Lord’s Supper ordinarily includes the invitation to the table, prayer of thanksgiving, sharing of the bread and cup, and a prayer of thanksgiving.
4. The Sending
Worship does not end when the congregation leaves the sanctuary. Having gathered around Word and Sacrament, we are sent into the world as Christ’s people. The service concludes with prayers, or opportunities for service, a hymn or response, and the Benediction—God’s blessing upon the congregation as we go forth to live out our faith.
The order may vary from week to week, but the underlying movement remains: God gathers us, God speaks to us, God feeds us, and God sends us.
"Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship."
John Calvin, the father of Presbyterianism