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 21, 2026
WE GATHER IN AWE AND PRAISE
PRELUDE “Amazing Grace” arr. Douglas E. Wagner
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: Here is a saying worthy of full acceptance:
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
All: If this is true, then there is room here for every last one of us.
One: God sees what the world overlooks
and calls the ones the world discards.
God's favor pours out until it runs over.
All: We gather to worship the God who looks at us honestly
and believes we are capable and worthy of goodness. Thanks be to God.
*HYMN 288 “Spirit of the Living God” LIVING GOD
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION Jeremy Carroll
God of endless patience, we confess that we are quick to decide who is beyond hope. We sort people into the worthy and the lost, and we trust that we can tell the difference. We look at others and see only their worst day, their record, their reputation. We look at ourselves the same way and forget the mercy poured out over us. Forgive us for the people we have given up on. Forgive us for the ministry we have failed to see in them, and in ourselves…
Silent Prayers of Confession are offered
Open our eyes to see what you see, that no one is past your reach and everyone carries a gift meant for the good of all. In the name of Jesus, who came to save sinners, the whole lot of us. Amen.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
*RESPONSE OF PARDON 582 “Glory to God, Whose Goodness Shines on Me” GLORY TO GOD
*PASSING OF THE PEACE
One: The peace of Christ be with you!
All: And also with you.
WE LISTEN FOR GOD’S WORD
ANTHEM “Look at the World” John Rutter
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Dorothy Kyle
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE 1 Timothy 1:12-17 CEB
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength because he considered me faithful. So he appointed me to ministry even though I used to speak against him, attack his people, and I was proud. But I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and without faith. Our Lord’s favor poured all over me along with the faithfulness and love that are in Christ Jesus. This saying is reliable and deserves full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I’m the biggest sinner of all. But this is why I was shown mercy, so that Christ Jesus could show his endless patience to me first of all. So I’m an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life. Now to the king of the ages, to the immortal, invisible, and only God, may honor and glory be given to him forever and always! Amen.
SERMON Rev. Trip Porch
WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
*HYMN 649 “Amazing Grace” AMAZING GRACE
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE followed by the Lord’s Prayer using debts and debtors.
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OFFERTORY “Grace Greater Than Our Sin” arr. Richard Kingsmore
*OFFERTORY RESPONSE “God, We Honor You” ABUNDANT BLESSINGS
*PRAYER OF DEDICATION
Generous God, your favor poured all over us before we had done a thing to earn it. Now we return these gifts, small signs of a grace we cannot repay. Use them, and use us, to reach the ones the world has counted out and to call out the good you have already planted in them. Through Christ, who believed in us first. Amen.
*HYMN 728 “Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door” SOMEBODY’S KNOCKING
CHARGE & BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE “Somebody’s Knocking at your Door” arr. Philip Keveren
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