Sunday Worship

“All nations whom You have made shall come and worship before You, O Lord, and they shall glorify Your name.”
(Psalm 86:9)

Schedule of Sunday Morning Services

• Morning Prayer 9:00 AM
• Sunday Schools 9:30 AM
• Worship 10:30 AM

Most visitors wish to know a bit about the way a church body conducts itself in worship. If you visit several churches, you will find that some create their worship services to be attractive to visitors by always preaching a less challenging message or providing plenty of entertainment in order to avoid losing the interest of new visitors. Visitors can potentially become a more important part of the worship service content than the One who is being worshipped.

Quite the opposite, other churches can, in large part, ignore visitors. Focusing on routines and personal ways so intently that visitors may feel lost in the service or unwelcome. Certainly it does not glorify God to have visitors who are earnestly seeking to worship Him lost because of difficult practices.

Different than either of these approaches, we feel the Bible directs us to preach an uncompromised message of truth and to conduct ourselves in a manner that is grounded in Biblical example. The service should be designed with our attention toward God alone, while making a special effort to welcome interested visitors by avoiding confusing words and traditions. Visitors should not be the focus of the worship service design, but should be the focus of our personal attention during and afterwards in fellowship.

The goal of our worship is to glorify the Lord through prayer, praise and the reading and teaching of the Bible. Weekly worship and a day of rest is the Lord’s way of keeping us close with Him and it restores us to one another as a body of believers. Our Sunday morning worship is simple, respectful and filled with a wide range of music and other gifts presented back to the One who is the Giver of all.

Our services include traditional and contemporary music, vocal and instrumental soloists, choir and occasional drama. A focused scripture reading and sermon is presented, and children who are learning piano or instrument are asked to present their talents to the Lord as the offering is taken. While there is order to our worship, we welcome unplanned events as well when the Lord leads us.

New participants in the worship service are always welcome to present their talents, testimonies and assistance. We are a body of believers, praising collectively. We realize order is needed, but it should not exclude those wishing to praise the Lord in a respectful, biblically guided manner.

Praise Band

Involving the youth of our congregation in worship activities is very important to us. Youth are invited to participate by bringing their talents before the Lord in acceptable ways. Participating in the reading of scripture, solo presentations in song and participation in a contemporary praise band are several ways this occurs.

New members are always welcome for instrumental or vocal performance.

Children’s Worship

Preschool and elementary aged children generally remain in the worship service with their families until an option for dismissal by the worship leader is given just prior to the sermon. At this point, at the parent’s discretion, children may attend a special Children’s Church.

Separate from Children’s Church, infants and those in pre-school are welcomed in the nursery at any time during the service.

 

Nursery

Parents need time to worship too! We realize the worship experience can occasionally be difficult with very young children, so a rotation of volunteer adult members staff our nursery during Sunday school hour and worship services. In this way, each member and visitor can stay close to the Lord by regularly worshipping without interruption.

Now there are a variety of gifts but the same Spirit.
(1Corinthians 12:4)