What it’s Like:

Our Midday Service attracts worshippers who enjoy traditional Methodist practices such as singing hymns and reciting creeds and confessions. Singing is led by a choir and pianist, and the sanctuary is always decorated in the various colors that correspond to the church’s seasons.

 

Midday worshippers enjoy a bible-based sermon as well as a children’s moment, led by the pastor.

 

Worship Walkthrough:

Our Midday Service begins at 11 a.m. with a piano prelude. Congregants arrive for fellowship, and then settle into the pews that line our traditional sanctuary, which is decorated with tall stained-glass windows.

 

The Order of Worship begins with announcements followed by the choir’s Call to Worship and the lighting of the candles by young acolytes.

 

Everyone stands to sing a Hymn of Praise, using hardbound hymnals, and then affirms their faith by repeating the Apostle’s Creed, which is projected onto high-definition monitors flanking the altar. The tech team also projects the Gloria Patri.

 

The pastor offers a prayer for our community and and an offertory prayer, and the congregation responds with the Lord’s Prayer.

 

The pastor calls all the children in the congregation to the altar, where he sits with them and gives them a miniature version — with props — of the same sermon he will deliver to their parents. He dismisses them to join their adult teachers for Kidz Church down the hall. (Child care is available for toddlers and babies for the entire service.)

 

The choir and worshippers sing an offertory hymn, and then ushers move through the aisles to collect congregational gifts. All stand to sing the Doxology.

 

To lead the church into the scripture and sermon time, the choir sings an anthem. The pastor then shares the scripture, which is also projected for the congregation to read along. The pastor reads from the New Revised Standard Version.

 

A 35-minute sermon is followed either by Communion (the first Sunday of the month) or by the benediction. Everyone is welcome at the Lord’s table; we serve Communion by intinction (dipping of the bread into the juice).

 

The service ends at about noon. (See our Sermons page for recent topics and excerpts.)

 

The tech team streams the service live to the church’s YouTube channel. On Sunday afternoons, a link is posted to the CPMC Facebook page. Links are below.