The center of our faith, the center of our week.
Our worship is intergenerational, radically inclusive, and open to everyone
Worship at Indianola
Down-to-earth | Casual | Traditional | Contemplative | Creative
IPC's worship service is filled with beautiful historic and contemporary music and inspiring, relevant messages for all ages.
Each week we reconnect with God and one another through song, prayer, art, and scriptural reflection & dialogue.
We believe faith is something best practiced and shaped in community
and that worship is the best laboratory we have for God to shape us and allow us to experiment with and grow in faith!
Sundays at 10:30 am
Sunday Worship
Join us at 10:30am for worship and community.
Parking is available across the street in our lot.
Online Worship
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Our sanctuary and worship format leans a bit “traditional,”
but you will always find here:
- rich, spirit-filled music drawing from contemporary & historic sources -
- a relevant scriptural message steeped in liberation theology as well as the reformed tradition -
- a radically warm, welcoming, and inclusive community -
- a place to “come-as-you-are” -
Kids of all ages are always welcome to join parents in the sanctuary for all parts of worship on Sunday. God put the wiggles in children, don’t feel you have to suppress it in God’s house. All kids are invited to come down for a special message just for them before the sermon.
For younger kids and nursing parents
At the back of our sanctuary is our Kid’s Carpet with rockers, toys, books, coloring materials and plenty of space for ambitious crawlers and wandering toddlers.
For older kids
At the front of the sanctuary are our Kid’s Table, stocked with activities to engage kids in worship. Parents are encouraged to sit in the front pew and continue to help your child worship.
Kids in Church!
- Worship This Sunday -
June 7, 2026
WE GATHER IN AWE AND PRAISE
PRELUDE “My Hope is Built on Nothing Less” arr. Jinnie J
INTROIT “This Is the Day” Pablo Sosa
WELCOME Rev. Trip Porch
One: This is the day that the Lord has made
All: Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
*CALL TO WORSHIP
One: Some of you have been told that you were too much, or not enough, for a place like this.
Many: We are here anyway.
One: Some of you have endured things the church should be ashamed of.
Many: We are here anyway.
One: This table, this room, this community: it belongs to you.
Many: We come as we are. All of us. We come to worship.
*HYMN 353 “My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less” SOLID ROCK
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION Jim Legg
God of steadfast love, we confess that the church has not always been what it was meant to be. People have been led to believe faith meant judgement and shame. Scripture has been used as a weapon. People began to believe that your love had conditions, and we’ve watched them walk away carrying wounds your church gave them. We confess our part in that history. We also confess the smaller failures: the times we chose comfort over courage, agreement over truth, easy answers over honest presence with one another in hard seasons. Forgive us. Repair what your people have broken. And make us the kind of community that people can actually come home to. Amen.
*AASSURANCE OF PARDON
*RESPONSE OF PRAISE 582 “Glory to God, Whose Goodness Shines on Me” GLORY TO GOD
*PASSING OF THE PEACE
One: The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all,
All: And also with you.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
ANTHEM “How Can I Keep from Singing” arr. Jeffrey Honore
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Sharon Renkes
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE Romans 5:1-8 CEB
Therefore, since we have been made righteous through his faithfulness, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. We have access by faith into this grace in which we stand through him, and we boast in the hope of God’s glory. But not only that! We even take pride in our problems, because we know that trouble produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope. This hope doesn’t put us to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
While we were still weak, at the right moment, Christ died for ungodly people. It isn’t often that someone will die for a righteous person, though maybe someone might dare to die for a good person. But God shows his love for us, because while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
SERMON Jesy LittleJohn (They/Them)
WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
*HYMN INSERT “For Everyone Born” FOR EVERYONE BORN
TIME OF OFFERING online giving is available at www. indianolapres.org/give
OFFERTORY “Meditation on Converse” John S. Dixon
COMMUNION
INVITATION TO THE TABLE
GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SHARING OF BREAD AND CUP 530 “One Bread, One Body” ONE BREAD, ONE BODY
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
God, this table has always been wider than the church has sometimes admitted. You set it for the outcast and the exhausted, for the ones who were told to wait their turn and the ones still waiting. We have eaten here together today. Send us out knowing that the work of love is not finished, but that we are not doing it alone.
May we be worthy of the trust of those who took a risk to gather here. Amen.
*HYMN 765 “May the God of Hope Go With Us” ARGENTINA
TIME OF COMMUNITY SHARING
CHARGE & BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE “One Bread, One Body” arr. Lloyd Larson
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