Announcements 03/15/2026
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PLAY SCHOOL ART AND FUN FAIR: Mark your calendars. The playschool is having their annual art and fun festival on March 21st from 10a-3p. Even if you can only work just one or two hours, that helps! We need help before, during and after the fair. Everything at the Fun Fair is paid for using tickets. Tickets are $1.00 each the day of the fair. However If you buy bulk tickets in advance, you get 10 tickets for only $9. If you have a young child, you can buy an Activity Band for $25 per sale ($30 on the day of the fair.) The Activity Band gives the child unlimited visits to the petting zoo, slide, and inflatable obstacle course. See Sheryl Wise or Emily Garland after church. You can order pre-sale tickets and pay Sheryl now or pay when you pick them up at the indoor ticket booth. You can bring sweets for the Sweets booth. Each sweet sells for $1. So wrap up $1’s worth of individual, Preferably homemade sweets but bought is ok too, NO NUTS, please). Bring sweet donations to the Fellowship Hall on Friday, March 20th (after 12:00 PM) or leave them in the church office on Thursday or Friday morning.
PROGRAM OF HOPE: John Calvin is serving POH in March. Please meet with Sue Crawford about any clothing donations. Sandwich prep will be on Tuesdays at 2:45p at the church, and we will serve on Wednesday mornings at First Presbyterian Church. We will carpool from John Calvin at 7:45a and feast on a Costco hotdog afterwards for lunch!
PSL BOOK CLUB: Pat Ellzey, from Chinese Presbyterian Church, is working to put together the next Greater NOLA churches Presbyterian book study! She is hoping to lead a discussion class on the book Being Presbyterian in a Dysvangelical America: A Guide to Reclaiming the Good News of God’s Grace.” Dates/time to be determined once interested parties are identified. CPC would order and provide the book to those who participate. The contact person is Pat Ellzey.
TABLE CLOTH DINNER: The next table cloth dinner will be held on Wednesday, March 18th at 6:30p. Location is Mr. Ed’s Restaurant at 3117 21st Street, Metairie, LA 70002. The signup sheet is in the Narthex.
LENTEN DINNER/MOVIE: Jefferson Presbyterian Church is inviting all the surrounding churches to join them every Wednesday during Lent for a community dinner and a Christian-based movie. It starts at 6p beginning February 25th. You don’t need to bring anything, but please reach out to Loretta Credo or Briana to RSVP by the Monday before to ensure enough food is prepared. JPC is located at 4451 E Falk Pl, Jefferson, LA 7012.
JOINT SERVICE: Mark your calendars! John Calvin will be closed on March 29th for a joint service with Chinese Presbyterian Church. There will be a potluck after the service so please bring a dish to share. Location is 2901 W Esplanade Ave, Kenner, LA 70065. Service starts at 11a.
CALENDAR:
03/17 PW Grace Circle 10a
POH Sandwich Prep 2:45p
03/18 Serve at POH 7:45a
03/12 PW Game Day 10a
03/22 Worship Service 10:30a
Order of Worship 03/08/2026
SERVICE FOR THE LORD’S DAY
Third Sunday in Lent
March 8th, 2026 Ten Thirty in the morning
Pulpit Supply: The Rev. Dr. Martha J. Robson
Liturgist: Ron Palmisano
Please silence all cell phones.
Bold face indicates congregational participation.
Please stand, in body or spirit
THE PEOPLE ARE GATHERED IN
PRELUDE “Nobody Knows the Troubles I’ve Seen”
WORDS OF WELCOME
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADORATION
LENT READING “Coins” Matthew 26:14-16
INTROIT “Bringing in the Sheaves”
*CALL TO WORSHIP (from Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7)
ONE: O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
MANY: Let us come into God’s presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to God with songs of praise!
ONE: O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker!
MANY: For the Lord is our God, and we are the people of God’s pasture, and the sheep of God’s hand.
PRAYER OF THE DAY
Eternal God,
Your kingdom has broken into our troubled world through the life, death, and resurrection of Your Son. Help us to hear Your Word and obey it, that we may become instruments of your saving love; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
HYMN “God of the Fertile Fields”
REPENTANCE
*CALL TO CONFESSION
SILENT CONFESSION
*PRAYER OF CONFESSION
God of endless renewal, God who calls us to lives restored, God who rescues the lost and saves the afflicted, there are times when our way grows confused. We struggle to know what to do. Or worse, we know what needs to be done and find it easier to stay on the wrong path. Forgive us for failing to heed opportunities to follow a better way. Remind us that you stand more ready to forgive than we are to confess those aspects of our lives that stand in need of your grace. And thus forgiven, help us to lean in to what you would teach us about how we are to be. We pray all these things in Jesus’ name. Amen.
*ASSURANCE OF PARDON
GLORIA PATRI [Blue#579[ [GTG581]
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Ghost; as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen, amen.
THE WORD READ AND PROCLAIMED
PRAYER OF ILLUMINATION
RESPONSE [Blue#586] [GTG#601] “Amen”
1st SCRIPTURE Romans 5:1-11
2nd SCRIPTURE John 4:31-42
ONE: The Word of the Lord
MANY: Thanks be to God
SERMON “Seeds of Glory” Rev. Dr. Martha J. Robson
HYMN “All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly”
RESPONSE
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH Apostle’s Creed
I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.
RECEIVING OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
OFFERTORY “More Like You” with Sandy Cranfill on vocals and Randy Martono-Chai on piano.
DOXOLOGY [GTG#606]
Praise God from whom all blessings flow.
Praise God, all creatures here below;
Praise God above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen
PRAYER OF DEDICATION
THE SACRAMENT OF THE HOLY COMMUNION
Invitation to the Lord’s Table
Great Prayer of Thanksgiving – Blue Presbyterian Hymnal p. 13
The Lord’s Prayer – Blue Presbyterian Hymnal p.16
RESPONSE “Hear Our Prayer O Lord”
Breaking the Bread and Sharing the Cup
Sharing the Body and Blood of Christ
MUSIC DURING COMMUNION
Prayer of Thanksgiving
HYMN “Sowing in the Morning (Bringing in the Sheaves)”
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PARTING PRAYER
Gracious Lord,
who nourished your servant Jesus to do your will and revealed him as the Savior of the world: Feed us with the food that endures, open our eyes to the harvest before us, and send us out to bear faithful witness, that many may come to believe and rejoice in your saving love;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
CHARGE AND BENEDICTION
RESPONSE [Blue#551] “Come Ye Thankful People, Come” verse 2
POSTLUDE “You Are My Strength”
*Liturgical material taken from the “Weekly Liturgy” of the Presbyterian Outlook. ©Presbyterian Outlook, 2026.
Note: the hymn lyrics in the bulletin and on the projection screen are from the Glory To God Hymnal (© 2013 Westminster John Knox Press), which we are transitioning to. Words in the “Blue” Presbyterian Hymnal (© 1990) in your pew may differ slightly. The Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved.
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