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January 11th, 2026
Baptism of the Lord
Music for Gathering:
Brian Jay, Organist
Welcome & Announcements:
Rev. Aaron J. White
Minute for Mission:
Mission Responsibility Through Investment, Mike Osborn
Introit:
“Chosen in Jesus”
PCM Choir
Call to Worship:
Holy Triune God, author of community,
come baptize us. Remind us what it means to belong to one another.
God who tears the heavens, come baptize us.
Reveal to us your power that ushers in new realms.
God who calls us beloved, come baptize us.
Declare to us your great delight and hold us in your pleasure.
God of vulnerability, come baptize us.
Welcome us into the paradox of strength that comes from weakness.
Together, let us remember this day.
In the Creator’s love we are held, into Christ’s body we are baptized, and by the Spirit’s power, we are claimed. All glory to God. Amen.
* Hymn #53 “O God, Who Gives Us Life”
* Confession of Sin
Beverly Shelton, Worship Leader
In the waters of baptism, O God, you have cleansed us and claimed us. Forgive us for refusing your grace and rejecting your name. We have followed our own paths, and they have led us far from you. Help us to live into our baptisms, to trust that all we need is in you, for you have marked us as your own, loving us without limit. Wash us with your love again, that with clean hearts we may go in the way of Jesus.
* Assurance of Pardon
Rev. Aaron J. White
* Song of Praise #156, verse 2 “Sing of God Made Manifest”
* Passing of the Peace
Prayer for Illumination
Beverly Shelton, Worship Leader
First Reading
Isaiah 42:1-9
Anthem
“Be Thou My Vision”
PCM Choir
Second Scripture
Matthew 3:13-17
Time for the Children
Chuck McGavren
Sermon
Rev. Aaron J. White
* Hymn #490 “Wash, O God, Your Sons and Daughters”
Service for the Ordination and Installation of Deacons and Ruling Elders
Sentences of Scripture
There are varieties of gifts, but it is the same Spirit who gives them.
There are different ways of serving God, but it is the same Lord who is served.
God works through each person in a unique way, but it is God’s purpose that is accomplished.
To each is given a gift of the Spirit to be used for the common good.
Together we are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.
Statement of Ordination
Profession of Faith
Thanksgiving for Baptism
Constitutional Questions
Prayer of Ordination and Installation
Declaration of Ordination and Installation
Welcome
Charge to the Newly Ordained and Installed
Charge to the Congregation
Pastoral Prayer
Congregational Response: Hear our prayer
Invitation to Discipleship
Sacrament of Holy Communion
Invitation to the Lord’s Table
Great Thanksgiving
The Lord’s Supper:
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
…Therefore we praise you, joining the song of the universal church and the heavenly choir:
Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might, Heaven and earth are full of Your glory.
Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,
Hosanna in the highest, hosanna in the highest.
…great is the mystery of faith:
Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.
…God of glory, now and forever.
Amen
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 sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
The Bread is Broken and the Cup is Filled.
The Communion of the People.
The Prayer After Communion.
* Hymn #482 “Baptized in Water”
* Charge & Blessing
* Music for Departing
“To God Be the Glory”
PCM Choir
Today’s Scripture readings are from the Inclusive Bible: The First Egalitarian Translation. © 2007 Priests for Equality.
Liturgy for today’s worship service is adapted with permission from the following sources: “Prayer for Illumination” and “Blessing” from Feasting on the Word Worship Companion: Liturgies for Year A, Volume 1 © 2013 Westminster John Knox Press. “Invitation to Discipleship,” “Invitation to the Lord’s Table,” “Prayer after Communion,” and “Charge” from Connections Worship Companion, Year A, Volume 1. © 2022 Presbyterian Publishing Corporation. Liturgy for the Service for the Ordination and Installation of Deacons and Ruling Elders, “Words of Institution,” and liturgy spoken when “The Bread is Broken and the Cup is Filled” from the Book of Common Worship. © 2018 Westminster John Knox Press. All other liturgy from Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching, and the Arts. Vol 59.1 (online version) © 2025 The Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). All rights reserved.