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 -
August 2, 2026
WE GATHER IN AWE AND PRAISE
PRELUDE “Morning Has Broken” arr. Melody Bober
Guest Musician: Lynn Singleton
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: Come into God’s sanctuary, out from the burdensome realities of our world
Many: We come, the gathered and the scattered, the steady and the tired.
One: You do not have to be the strongest one here.
Many: We come as we are, and grace is enough.
One: God has been saying your name since before you could answer.
Many: So we worship the One who chose us first. Amen.
*HYMN 741 “Guide My Feet” GUIDE MY FEET
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION Rebekah Gayley
God of grace, For too long we’ve tried to be strong enough on our own. We size up what we are facing and decide we do not measure up. We forget that our strength was never the point.
You have offered us grace we cannot earn and community to hold us up and still we reach with our own hands first. Turn us back to you. Hold us when we cannot hold ourselves and teach us to lean on the One who does not quit. Amen.
*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
MUSCAL OFFERING “How Great Thou Art” arr. Ann Britt Guest Musician: Lynn Singleton
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Sharon Renkes
PRAYER FOR ILLUMINATION
SCRIPTURE 2 Timothy 2:1-2; 8-15 CEB
So, my child, draw your strength from the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Take the things you heard me say in front of many other witnesses and pass them on to faithful people who are also capable of teaching others.
Remember Jesus Christ, who was raised from the dead and descended from David. This is my good news. This is the reason I’m suffering to the point that I’m in prison like a common criminal. But God’s word cannot be imprisoned. This is why I endure everything for the sake of those who are chosen by God so that they too may experience salvation in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. This saying is reliable:
“If we have died together, we will also live together.
If we endure, we will also rule together.
If we deny him, he will also deny us.
If we are disloyal, he stays faithful”
because he can’t be anything else than what he is.
Remind them of these things and warn them in the sight of God not to engage in battles over words that aren’t helpful and only destroy those who hear them. Make an effort to present yourself to God as a tried-and-true worker, who doesn’t need to be ashamed but is one who interprets the message of truth correctly.
SERMON Rev Trip Porch
WE RESPOND TO GOD’S WORD
*HYMN 69 “Here I Am, Lord” HERE I AM
ORDINATION/INSTALLATION David Blackmore/Elder, Kate Wilkinson, Deacon
TIME OF OFFERING online giving is available at www. indianolapres.org/give
On Sundays where uncredited African American Spirituals are sung, any loose offering will go to support the Columbus Cultural Orchestra, whose mission is to advance a collective of multi-generational musicians of color by performing high-quality jazz, classical, and hip-hop music.
OFFERTORY “Aria” from Magnificat, BWV 243 Johann Sebastian Bach
Guest Musician: Lynn Singleton arr. Donald Waxman
COMMUNION
INVITATION TO THE TABLE
GREAT PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
SHARING OF BREAD AND CUP 507 “Come to the Table of Grace” TABLE OF GRACE
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Faithful God, you have fed us at a table we did not set, with grace we could not earn.
Send us back out to hold on and to endure. May we carry what we have received to the next hungry, overlooked, waiting person. You have never quit on us. Make us people who will not quit on each other. Amen.
*HYMN 536 “Rise, O Church, like Christ Arisen” SURGE ECCLESIA
TIME OF COMMUNITY SHARING
Charge & Benediction
POSTLUDE “Joyous Sound” Robert D. Vandall
Guest Musician: Lynn Singleton
Acknowledgments: Unless otherwise indicated, all texts and music are printed and broadcast under OneLicense.net license #A-702452
