Sunday, November 16, 2025
Welcome to our Order of Service page! Each week, a team of pastors and staff get together to collaborate on the liturgy, or order of service, for Sunday. Every element is prayerfully and carefully crafted so that the Gospel, God’s redemptive story to save a people for Himself in and through His Son Jesus Christ, would be clear and compelling. We hope you’ll enjoy following along with us as we present and rehearse the Gospel again this morning.
Order of Service
CALL TO CORPORATE WORSHIP
Pastor of Musical Worship: Peter Beers
Psalm 105:1–3
INVITATION TO SING
Come, Christians Join to Sing
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
RESPONSIVE SCRIPTURE READING
Psalm 84:11; Rom. 8:31–32
PRAYER
Pastor Musical Worship: Peter Beers
THANKSGIVING & PRAISE
Great is Thy Faithfulness
PETITION: PRAYER FOR THE OFFERING
Executive Pastor: Joe Keller
OFFERTORY
1st Service: My Worth is Not in What I Own
2nd Service: Baptisms
PROCLAMATION
The Generosity of God | 2 Cor. 8:9
Pastor of Equipping: Aaron Miller
TIME FOR PRAYERS OF GRATITUDE
ANNOUNCEMENTS & BENEDICTION
Pastor of Outreach & Connections: Jared Burkholder
The Simple Sermon
“Before time began God determined to do good to you, and Jesus determined to pay the price.”
Why do we baptize believers?
We baptize followers of Jesus because He commanded his followers to be baptized, by his authority, and in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 28:18-20)
The water is not divine nor spiritually advantageous to the believer, rather baptism is a demonstration of obedience, and a dramatization of salvation. For the witnessing church family, it’s a reminder of the power of the gospel that saved the believer into the life of Christ. (1 Peter 3:21)
The Grace Family observes and receives the one being baptized into the fellowship, recognizing that the declaration of salvation through baptism corresponds to membership into our church family. (1 Corinthians 12:13)