We Welcome You!

Order of Service for Sunday, February 8, 2026, 10:30 AM

Prelude (Kathleen Jones)

Welcome and Call to Worship 

Hymn: “O Worship the King, All Glorious Above!” (Presbyterian Hymnal #476)

Prayer of Adoration and Confession

Assurance of Pardon

Song: “What Does the Lord Require?” (Lift Up Your Hearts #97)

We Greet One Another

Choir Anthem: “Heart of God,” by Ruth E. Schram (directed by Carol Fassbender)

Scripture Readings:

Isaiah 58:1-9a (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

Shout out; do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet!

Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.

2  Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways,

as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness

and did not forsake the ordinance of their God;

they ask of me righteous judgments; they want God on their side.

3  “Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?”

Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day and oppress all your workers.

4  You fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist.

Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high.

5  Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself?

Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush and to lie in sackcloth and ashes?

Will you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?

6  Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, 

to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

7  Is it not to share your bread with the hungry 

and bring the homeless poor into your house;

when you see the naked, to cover them and not to hide yourself from your own kin?

8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,and your healing shall spring up quickly;

your vindicator shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.

9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry for help, and he will say, “Here I am.”

Matthew 5:13-16 (New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition)

 You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything but is thrown out and trampled under foot. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. 15 People do not light a lamp and put it under the bushel basket; rather, they put it on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

Sermon: (Gale Watkins, Pastor)

Affirmation of Faith (from Confession of Belhar, September 1986)

We believe

• that God has entrusted the church with the message of reconciliation 

in and through Jesus Christ;

• that the church is called to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world, 

that the church is called blessed because it is a peacemaker,

that the church is witness both by word and by deed 

to the new heaven and the new earth in which righteousness dwells;

We believe

• that the church must therefore stand by people in any form of suffering and need, 

which implies, among other things, 

that the church must witness against and strive against any form of injustice, 

so that justice may roll down like waters, 

and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

Hymn: “Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life” (Presbyterian Hymnal #408)

A Time of Prayer

Answers to Prayer and Prayer Requests

Prayers of Thanksgiving and Intercession

The Lord’s Prayer 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, 

thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread; 

and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; 

and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

Offertory 

Doxology 

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise God, all creatures here below;

Praise God above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Hymn: “Canto de Esperanza/Song of Hope” (Presbyterian Hymnal #432)

Benediction

Postlude (Kathleen Jones)

Today: Souper Bowl of Caring offering (as we leave the Sanctuary)

Coffee hour in Fellowship Hall after worship

This week:   

Monday, February 9  Prayer in the Lounge at 3:00 PM  

Thursday, February 12  Choir practice in the Choir Room at 7:00 PM 

Sunday, February 15  Class in the Lounge at 9:15 AM 

Worship in the Sanctuary at 10:30 AM, followed by coffee hour in Fellowship Hall