Sunday Bulletin
January 18, 2026
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Unity and Diversity in the Body
12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by[a] one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?
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PRELUDE Anita Dew
WELCOME & ANNOUNCEMENTS Virginia Ripple
*GATHERING SONG “Christians We Have Met to Worship” No. 277
*CALL TO WORSHIP Jennie Lamb
Leader: Children of God: welcome!
People: Welcome to this place of love and grace,
Leader: Welcome to this place of hope and perseverance.
People: God invites all of us to be a part of the beloved community,
Leader: God invites all of us to share in the good news:
People: We are welcome, just as we are. We are loved, just as we are.
Leader: In gratitude for all of this, let us worship God
*INVOCATION Jennie Lamb
*GLORIA PATRI No. 36
PASTORAL PRAYER Virginia Ripple
Lord’s Prayer (use debts)
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 in to temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
Forever. Amen.
*ADORATION SONG “Praise Him! Praise Him!” No. 93, vs 1, 3
COMMUNION INVITATION Virginia Ripple
COMMUNION SONG “Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread” No. 398
(Elder and Diaconate please come forward)
PRAYERS OVER THE ELEMENTS Virginia Ripple
WORDS OF INSTITUTION Virginia Ripple
COMMUNION
OFFERING MEDITATION Virginia Ripple
OFFERING
*DOXOLOGY
OFFERING PRAYER Virginia Ripple
SPECIAL MUSIC “Waymaker” Travis Johnson
MESSAGE “Making the Second Act Happen” | 1 Cor. 12:12-7 | Pat Immel, Guest Speaker
*SENDING FORTH SONG “Lord, I Want to Be a Christian” No. 589, vs 1, 3
BENEDICTION Guest Pat Immel
POSTLUDE Anita Dew
*If You Are Worshiping With Us In-person, Please Stand If You’re Able