Sunday Service 2/22/2026

Prelude Starr Medeiros

Opening Chimes

Greeting & Announcements – Ron Gagnon

Visiting Lay Preacher - John Tully

(Worship Opening)

Opening Meditation

Scripture Reading: Neimiah 9:6

You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens, and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship you..

Hymn #11 A Mighty Fortress is our God

*Invocation

Lord‘s Prayer (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 into temptation but deliver us from evil.  For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever.  Amen

Hymn Glory Be to the Father

Offering

  Offertory Prayer-Dedicating our Offerings & Lives

  Offertory Music

  Doxology #554

Choral Anthem

(Ministry of the Word)

Scripture Reading: Genesis 2:15-17 & Genesis 3: 1-7

The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

Message: It Still Surprises Me

Hymn # 19 In The Garden 

(Prayer)

Prayer Requests

Pastoral Prayer--Opening

Quiet Meditation

Pastoral Prayer—Conclusion

Hymn #169 Because He Lives

Benediction

GOD, make the door of this house wide enough to receive all who need human love and the knowledge of a FATHER’S care; make it narrow enough to shut out pride, envy and all unworthy purpose; make its threshold low enough so that it be no stumbling-block to childhood, weakness, or straying feet; but make it high enough to turn back the tempter‘s power.