Sunday, April 19, 2026 -- 10:30am Worship Service
This week’s bulletin art is a painting titled “The Supper at Emmaus” by Scottish painter Robert MacBryde (1913-1966).
Welcome to Maxwell Street! We hope you will consider wearing a nametag so that we might get to know one another better. They can be found in the lobbies outside the sanctuary. You can find more helpful information inside this bulletin.
INTROIT 692 - Spirit, Open My Heart (sing twice)
Spirit, open my heart
to the joy and pain of living.
As you love, may I love,
in receiving and in giving.
Spirit, open my heart.
GREETING & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE - Prelude in C Minor, BWV 546, J. S. Bach
CALL TO WORSHIP - based on Psalm 16
I love the Lord!
Because God has heard me
and not ignored my cry.
God has saved my life repeatedly!
So my life belongs to God.
I am God’s child,
happy to sing of God’s work in me.
+ HYMN 276 - Sing A New Song Unto The Lord
+ CONFESSION & PARDON
Eternal God, in whom we live and move and have our being, whose face is hidden from us by our sins, and whose mercy we forget in the blindness of our hearts: Cleanse us from all our offenses, and deliver us from proud thoughts and vain desires, that with reverent and humble hearts we may draw near to you, confessing our faults, confiding in your grace, and finding in you our refuge and strength; through Jesus Christ your Son. Hear now our silent prayers of confession.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!
Thanks be to God.
RESPONSE TO FORGIVENESS - Hymn 588 Alleluia
Choir: Alleluia, alleluia! (repeats)
All: Alleluia, alleluia!
PASSING OF THE PEACE
CHILDREN'S MESSAGE
PRAYER FOR OPENNESS
Loving God, fountain of every blessing, open us to your life-giving word, and fill us with your Holy Spirit so that living water may flow through our hearts— a spring of hope for a thirsty world; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING- Acts 14.1a, 36-41 NT pg 133 (NRSVUE)
ANTHEM- So Art Thou to Me, K. Lee Scott, Chancel Choir, Lauren Falco, solo
SCRIPTURE READING - Luke 24.13-35 NT pg 76 (NRSVUE)
SERMON - “Stay With Us” - Rev. Matt Falco
+ STATEMENT OF FAITH- FromWestminster Large Catechism
Q. 165. What is Baptism?
A. Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, to be a sign and seal of ingrafting into himself, of remission of sins by his blood, and regeneration by his Spirit; of adoption, and resurrection unto everlasting life: and whereby the parties baptized are solemnly admitted into the visible church, and enter into an open and professed engagement to be wholly and only the Lord’s.
Q. 167. How is our Baptism to be improved by us?
A. The needful but much neglected duty of improving our Baptism, is to be performed by us all our life long, especially in the time of temptation, and when we are present at the administration of it to others, by serious and thankful consideration of the nature of it and of the ends for which Christ instituted it, the privileges and benefits conferred and sealed thereby, and our solemn vow made therein; [...] and by endeavoring to live by faith, to have our conversation in holiness and righteousness, as those that have therein given up their names to Christ, and to walk in [communal] love, as being baptized by the same Spirit into one body.
+ HYMN 490 - Wash, O God, Your Sons and Daughters
BAPTISM & CONFIRMATION (See Insert with images and bios)
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
BAPTISMS - Daniel Bruno and Quinn Linscott
Do you, as members of the church of Jesus Christ, promise to guide and nurture Daniel and Quinn by word and deed, with love and prayer? We do.
Will you encourage them to know and follow Christ and to be faithful members of his church? We will.
THANKSGIVING OVER THE WATER
The Lord be with you. And also with you.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
BAPTISM
CONFIRMATION- Daniel Bruno, Juni Bullock, Liam O'Carra, Quinn Linscott, and Theo Meads
May the Spirit continue to strengthen and sustain you in the worship and mission of the church. Amen. Alleluia!
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD'S PRAYER
OFFERING
• Offertory - A Simple Song, from Mass, Leonard Bernstein, Kristen Tidwell, soprano
+ • Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise Christ the Word in flesh born low;
Praise Holy Spirit evermore; One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.
+ • Prayer of Dedication
+ HYMN 295 -Go To The World!
+ CHARGE & BENEDICTION
+ BENEDICTION RESPONSE -Hymn 80, You Shall Go Out With Joy (The Trees of the Field)
You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace;
the mountains and the hills will break forth before you;
there’ll be shouts of joy, and all the trees of the field
will clap, will clap their hands.
And all the trees of the field will clap their hands;
the trees of the field will clap their hands;
the trees of the field will clap their hands
while you go out with joy.
POSTLUDE- Fugue in C Minor, BWV 546, J. S. Bach
Welcome to Maxwell Street! We hope you will consider wearing a nametag so that we might get to know one another better. They can be found in the lobbies outside the sanctuary. You can find more helpful information inside this bulletin.
INTROIT 692 - Spirit, Open My Heart (sing twice)
Spirit, open my heart
to the joy and pain of living.
As you love, may I love,
in receiving and in giving.
Spirit, open my heart.
GREETING & ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRELUDE - Prelude in C Minor, BWV 546, J. S. Bach
CALL TO WORSHIP - based on Psalm 16
I love the Lord!
Because God has heard me
and not ignored my cry.
God has saved my life repeatedly!
So my life belongs to God.
I am God’s child,
happy to sing of God’s work in me.
+ HYMN 276 - Sing A New Song Unto The Lord
+ CONFESSION & PARDON
Eternal God, in whom we live and move and have our being, whose face is hidden from us by our sins, and whose mercy we forget in the blindness of our hearts: Cleanse us from all our offenses, and deliver us from proud thoughts and vain desires, that with reverent and humble hearts we may draw near to you, confessing our faults, confiding in your grace, and finding in you our refuge and strength; through Jesus Christ your Son. Hear now our silent prayers of confession.
ASSURANCE OF PARDON
In the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven!
Thanks be to God.
RESPONSE TO FORGIVENESS - Hymn 588 Alleluia
Choir: Alleluia, alleluia! (repeats)
All: Alleluia, alleluia!
PASSING OF THE PEACE
CHILDREN'S MESSAGE
PRAYER FOR OPENNESS
Loving God, fountain of every blessing, open us to your life-giving word, and fill us with your Holy Spirit so that living water may flow through our hearts— a spring of hope for a thirsty world; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING- Acts 14.1a, 36-41 NT pg 133 (NRSVUE)
ANTHEM- So Art Thou to Me, K. Lee Scott, Chancel Choir, Lauren Falco, solo
SCRIPTURE READING - Luke 24.13-35 NT pg 76 (NRSVUE)
SERMON - “Stay With Us” - Rev. Matt Falco
+ STATEMENT OF FAITH- FromWestminster Large Catechism
Q. 165. What is Baptism?
A. Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, wherein Christ hath ordained the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, to be a sign and seal of ingrafting into himself, of remission of sins by his blood, and regeneration by his Spirit; of adoption, and resurrection unto everlasting life: and whereby the parties baptized are solemnly admitted into the visible church, and enter into an open and professed engagement to be wholly and only the Lord’s.
Q. 167. How is our Baptism to be improved by us?
A. The needful but much neglected duty of improving our Baptism, is to be performed by us all our life long, especially in the time of temptation, and when we are present at the administration of it to others, by serious and thankful consideration of the nature of it and of the ends for which Christ instituted it, the privileges and benefits conferred and sealed thereby, and our solemn vow made therein; [...] and by endeavoring to live by faith, to have our conversation in holiness and righteousness, as those that have therein given up their names to Christ, and to walk in [communal] love, as being baptized by the same Spirit into one body.
+ HYMN 490 - Wash, O God, Your Sons and Daughters
BAPTISM & CONFIRMATION (See Insert with images and bios)
There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.
BAPTISMS - Daniel Bruno and Quinn Linscott
Do you, as members of the church of Jesus Christ, promise to guide and nurture Daniel and Quinn by word and deed, with love and prayer? We do.
Will you encourage them to know and follow Christ and to be faithful members of his church? We will.
THANKSGIVING OVER THE WATER
The Lord be with you. And also with you.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
BAPTISM
CONFIRMATION- Daniel Bruno, Juni Bullock, Liam O'Carra, Quinn Linscott, and Theo Meads
May the Spirit continue to strengthen and sustain you in the worship and mission of the church. Amen. Alleluia!
PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD'S PRAYER
OFFERING
• Offertory - A Simple Song, from Mass, Leonard Bernstein, Kristen Tidwell, soprano
+ • Doxology
Praise God from whom all blessing flow Praise Christ the Word in flesh born low;
Praise Holy Spirit evermore; One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.
+ • Prayer of Dedication
+ HYMN 295 -Go To The World!
+ CHARGE & BENEDICTION
+ BENEDICTION RESPONSE -Hymn 80, You Shall Go Out With Joy (The Trees of the Field)
You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace;
the mountains and the hills will break forth before you;
there’ll be shouts of joy, and all the trees of the field
will clap, will clap their hands.
And all the trees of the field will clap their hands;
the trees of the field will clap their hands;
the trees of the field will clap their hands
while you go out with joy.
POSTLUDE- Fugue in C Minor, BWV 546, J. S. Bach