Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026

1. Call To Worship

• Prelude
• Praise Reading – Psalm 117                        Pastor Steve Garrick
• Welcome and Invocation

          Gospel presented
          Pastoral Prayer

• Hymn of Praise – “Across the Lands”                                   #198

1. Confession of Sin & Reading of the Law

• Pastoral Call to Repentance                             Pastor Mike Holt
• Congregational Reading of the Law – Psalm 67:1-4

1. Assurance & Reading of the Gospel

• Hymn of Faith & Assurance –

           “I Love to Tell the Story”                                        Worship Hymn

• Hymn of Faith & Assurance –

          “How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds”                            #146

• Pastoral Call to Faith & Assurance            Pastor Matt Jackson
• Congregational Reading of the Gospel – Luke 24:46-48

1. Preaching of the Word

• Hymn to Prepare Us for the Preaching –

       “Oh, How He Loves You and Me”                                              #157

• Sermon – “Witnesses to the Remotest Parts” – Acts 1:6-8                       Pastor Mark Chanski
• Hymn of Response –

           “How Sweet and Aweful Is the Place”                                   #350

• Benedictory Reading – Revelation 7:9-10                                                      
• Closing Hymn or Doxology –

         “We Have Heard the Joyful Sound”                      Worship Hymn

• Blessing and Dismissal
• Ministry & Missions Expo in the Fellowship Hall
  

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Across the Lands
1 You’re the Word of God the Father,
From before the world began;
Every star and every planet
Has been fashioned by Your hand.
All creation holds together
By the power of Your voice:
Let the skies declare Your glory,
Let the land and seas rejoice!

Refrain:
You’re the Author of creation,
You’re the Lord of every man;
And Your cry of love rings out
Across the lands.

2 Yet You left the gaze of angels,
Came to seek and save the lost,
And exchanged the joy of heaven
For the anguish of a cross.
With a prayer You fed the hungry,
With a word You stilled the sea.
Yet how silently You suffered
That the guilty may go free.

3 With a shout You rose victorious,
Wresting victory from the grave,
And ascended into heaven
Leading captives in Your wake.
Now You stand before the Father
Interceding for Your own.
From each tribe and tongue and nation
You are leading sinners home.
  
 
I Love to Tell the Story
1 I love to tell the story
Of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and His glory,
Of Jesus and His love:
I love to tell the story
Because I know 'tis true;
It satisfies my longings
As nothing else can do.

Refrain:
I love to tell the story,
'Twill be my theme in glory
To tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love.

2 I love to tell the story;
'Tis pleasant to repeat
What seems each time I tell it,
More wonderfully sweet:
I love to tell the story,
For some have never heard
The message of salvation
From God's own holy Word.

3 I love to tell the story;
For those who know it best
Seem hungering and thirsting
To hear it, like the rest:
And when, in scenes of glory,
I sing the new, new song,
'Twill be the old, old story
That I have loved so long.
  
 
How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds
1 How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, and drives away his fear.
It makes the wounded spirit whole, and calms the troubled breast; it satisfies the hungry soul, and to the weary rest.

2 Dear Name! the Rock on which I build, my Shield and Hiding Place, my never-failing treas'ry filled with boundless stores of grace;
My Jesus, Savior, Shepherd, Friend, my Prophet, Priest, and King, my Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, accept the praise I bring.

3 Weak is the effort of my heart, and cold my warmest thought; but when I see You as You art, I'll praise You as I ought.
Till then I would thy love proclaim with every fleeting breath; and may the music of your name refresh my soul in death.
 

Oh, How He Loves You and Me
1 O how He loves you and me,
O how He loves you and me;
He gave His life— what more could He give?
O how He loves you;
O how He loves me;
O how He loves you and me!

2 Jesus to Calv'ry did go,
His love for mankind to show;
What He did there brought hope from despair;
O how He loves you;
O how He loves me;
O how He loves you and me!


How Sweet and Aweful Is the Place
1 How sweet and aweful is the place
with Christ within the doors,
while everlasting love displays
the choicest of her stores.

2 While all our hearts and all our songs
join to admire the feast,
each of us cries, with thankful tongue,
"Lord, why was I a guest?

3 "Why was I made to hear Thy voice,
and enter while there's room,
when thousands make a wretched choice
and rather starve than come?"

4 'Twas the same love that spread the feast
that sweetly drew us in;
else we had still refused to taste,
and perished in our sin.

5 Pity the nations, O our God,
constrain the earth to come;
send Thy victorious Word abroad,
and bring the strangers home.

6 We long to see Thy churches full,
that all the chosen race
may, with one voice and heart and soul,
sing Thy redeeming grace.
  
 
We Have Heard the Joyful Sound
3 Sing above the battle strife:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
By His death and endless life
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Sing it softly thro' the gloom,
When the heart for mercy craves;
Sing in triumph o'er the tomb;
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
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4 Give the winds a mighty voice.
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Let the nations now rejoice.
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Shout salvation full and free,
Highest hills and deepest caves;
This our song of victory:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!