2026 Worship Services
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Sunday, February 1, 2026
What Is Good
“What does the LORD require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8)
SCRIPTURE: Micah 6: 1-8 (NRSVue)
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
10:30 am – Friendship Time
- Patricia Abell, Pastor
- Kelli Young, Director of Music Ministry
- Clarice Snyder, Organist/Pianist
- Nancy Janson, Liturgist
- Jelinda Blum, Children’s Message
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Carrying the Light
SCRIPTURE: Psalm 27: 1, 4-9; Matthew 4: 12-23 (NRSVue)
The light has come. We’ve received the light and the call to bear the light to all the nations. We quickly discover that carrying the light doesn’t get rid of fear. But, as the psalmist demonstrates this week, the light does show us how to not let fear control us but to meet fear with love and finding our refuge in God.
9:30 am – Online Worship in the Sanctuary
- Rev. Patricia Abell, Pastor
- Kelli Young, Director of Music Ministry
- Clarice Snyder, Organist/Pianist
- Susan Mascaro, Liturgist
- Tainya Clarke, Children’s Message
Sunday, January 18, 2026
Give You As a Light
As we move deeper into the season after Epiphany, we continue to explore the glory God reveals among us. While we often emphasize Jesus as the revelation of God’s glory, this week’s Old Testament reading from Isaiah 49 invites us to consider how God reveals glory through us, God’s servants.
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 49- 1-7; John 1: 29-42 (NRSVue)
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
10:30 am – Friendship Time
Special Notice: Because of renovation work being done in the sanctuary, the service was held in the Fellowship Hall.
- Rev. Patricia Abell, Pastor
- Kelli Young, Director of Music Ministry
- Clarice Snyder, Organist/Pianist
- Jan Petrosh, Liturgist
- Edie Candee, Children’s Message
- Laural Clark, Handbell Director
- Saint James Handbell Choir
Sunday, January 11, 2026
Signs and Powers
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 42: 1-9; Matthew 3: 13-17 (NRSVue)
Today we are centering the worship service around the connection between Jesus’ baptism, our baptisms, and our baptismal identity as the Body of Christ. Baptism is about initiation into community with God and one another, and Jesus shows us the way into this community through his baptism.
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
10:30 am – Friendship Time
- Rev. Patricia Abell, Pastor
- Kelli Young, Director of Music Ministry
- Clarice Snyder, Organist/Pianist
- Beth Shipley, Liturgist
- Donna Benson, Children’s Message
Sunday, January 4, 2026
Seeing the Light
SCRIPTURE: Isaiah 60: 1-6; Matthew 2: 1-12 (NRSVue)
9:30 am – Live and Online Worship in the Sanctuary
10:30 am – Friendship Time
- Rev. Patricia Abell, Pastor
- Kelli Young, Director of Music Ministry
- Clarice Snyder, Organist/Pianist
- Edie Candee, Liturgist
- Rev. Patricia Abell, Children’s Message