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 -
September 13, 2026
WE GATHER IN AWE AND PRAISE
PRELUDE “A New Commandment” Allan Bullard
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: We have come from far away and from right next door.
Many: We have come to be near God, and near each other.
One: Jesus tells us the law can be summed up in one great commandment
Many: Love God with all our heart, and soul, and mind and Love our neighbor as ourselves.
One: Everything God has ever asked of us grows out of these two.
Many: May we slow down long enough to hear them. Let us worship God.
*HYMN 795 “Healer of Our Every Ill” HEALER OF OUR EVERY ILL
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION Michael Ayers
God who came near, we have loved the world at a comfortable distance. We have said we love our neighbors And yet never learned their names. We have kept our love for you private, as if it were a matter between you and us alone. We have been afraid of places we have never been and certain about people we have never met. We have moved through our days too fast to notice anyone. Forgive us. Slow us down. Open our doors. Give us the courage to be known, and the patience to know.
Silence for personal confession
*ASSURANCE 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 “The Ground” from Sunrise Mass Ola Gjeilo
GODLY pPLAY
Congregation: May God be with you there
Children: May God be with you here.
CHILDREN’S RECESSIONAL 175 “Seek Ye First” vs. 1
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE Matthew 22:34-40 The VOICE
Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, a group of Pharisees met to consider new questions that might trip up Jesus. A legal expert thought of one that would certainly stump Him.
Pharisee: Teacher, of all the laws, which commandment is the greatest?
Jesus (quoting Scripture): “Love the Eternal One your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is nearly as important, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” The rest of the law, and all the teachings of the prophets, are but variations on these themes.
Holy Wisdom
Holy Word
SERMON Rev. Trip Porch
WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
*HYMN INSERT “Love the Lord Your God” GREATEST COMMANDMENT
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WELCOMING NEW MEMBERr - Erin Brown
Welcome Erin, We welcome you into this family of faith with joy and thanksgiving . We promise to love, encourage and support you, to share in the good news of the Gospel with you, and to walk alongside you in your journey of faith. Welcome sisters and brothers in Christ!
TIME OF OFFERING online giving is available at www. indianolapres.org/give
OFFERTORY “Beloved, God’s Chosen” Robert Hobby
Mya Luca, soloist; Emily Foster, keyboard
COMMUNION
INVITATION TO THE TABLE
GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SHARING OF BREAD AND CUP 501 “Feed Us Lord” FEED US
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Thank you, God, for feeding us at the same table as our neighbors, out of the same loaf, from hands that were not our own. Now send us out to the people you have put within reach. Let the grace we have received here show up on our streets this week. Amen.
*HYMN INSERT “God of Ever- Blazing Glory” HYMN TO JOY
Text: David Gambrell, 2008, © 2015, GIA Publications, Inc. used by permission
TIME OF COMMUNITY SHARING
CHARGE & BENEDICTION
BENEDICTION RESPONSE “The Grace of Our Lord Jesus” James A. Brown Jr.
arr. K. Lee Scott
POSTLUDE “Finale” Ellen Jane Lorenz
Acknowledgments: Unless otherwise indicated, all texts and music are printed and broadcast under OneLicense.net license #A-702452
