Weekly Events
SUNDAY 10:30 AM WORSHIP SERVICE. Live broadcast also available (See instructions on the "Watch 10 AM Sermons Live" page under "More..." on our opening webpage.)
Communion is the First Sunday of each month.
EVERY SATURDAY Free Community Take-Out Breakfast and food boxes 9:30-10:30.
BIBLE STUDY EVERY THURSDAY AT NOON. We will begin a new study on June 4th titled “Who is Jesus?” based on the “I am” statements of Christ found in the Gospel of John.
MUSIC NOTES SUNDAY, JULY 5, 2026
Piano: Dr. James P. O’Brien
Organ: Dr. Shirley J. O’Brien
PRELUDE “America the Beautiful”, one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs. In fact, there have been movements to make it the national anthem. Katharine Lee Bates wrote the lyrics, and the music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey, though the two never met. Ms. Bates wrote the poem after traveling by train across the country to take a teaching position in Colorado. Her reflections on the scenery are captured in the lyrics. This is the only old patriotic hymn that can be interpreted in country-western swing or jazz styles. You can find this hymn in our green hymnal, page 727.
POSTLUDE “God Bless America”, an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin while serving in the Army during World War I and revised in the period leading up to World War II. The little-known lead-in to this hymn strongly expressed the American sentiment when Kate Smith sang it on her radio show on November 11th, 1938.
“While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that’s free.
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.