5th Sunday after Epiphany, February 5, 2012 Isa. 40:21-31; Ps. 147:1-11, 20c; 1 Cor. 9:16-23; Mark 1:29-39 6th Sunday after Epiphany, February 12, 2012 2 Kings 5:1-14; Psalm 30; 1 Cor. 9:24-27; Mark 1:40-45

Reflections on worship at West Plano Presbyterian Church
Eucharistic Ministers, Assisting Ministers, & Lectors Schedule
Communion Preparation Schedule and Instructions; please contact John Hook with questions.
Usher Guide; please contact Frank Lugo with questions.

WPPC gathers for worship at 9:30 am each Sunday. Eucharist is celebrated every Sunday. West Plano Presbyterian study provides sessions for all ages at 11:15 each Sunday morning during the school year. During the summer, a week of Vacation Bible School is held. September through May, WPPC gathers as a family on Wednesday evenings. Starting at 6 p.m., there is an evening meal available (reservations are not required). From 6:30-7:30 (following the meal) there is adult study. The choir meets for rehearsal at 7:30 pm Wednesdays; it leads our congregation in singing prayers or praises during worship.

Nursery is provided for the service. Children of all ages are encouraged to participate in worship.

For those who are celebrating the birth of a child, or for those thinking about baptism of infants or children, please visit our page on Christian baptism.

See also background on our processional cross, and our ocatagonal baptismal space.

Please see this special site for those interested in preparing for youth worship leadership participation.

As time and experiences continue, I am struck by the constancy with which our worshipping community resounds with voices and actions from a wide range of worship leadership reflective of our entire population. Week after week, service upon service, we are led in our worship by a broad spectrum of servant leaders ranging from young children through those of us with greater longitudinal seniority. From our commonly held belief that worship is not about us but about giving glory to God, emerges a tableau rich with images of youth pouring water, our senior statesmen carrying the processional cross or bringing in the Bible, our FYF youth and their sponsors lighting the candles of Advent and processing the O! Antiphons, our lectors of all ages sharing God’s word, and so on. Recall the images of the young washing pathworn feet and of the tenderness with which the annointing oil, towels, and basins are carried.

These leadership roles are flexibly satisfied by our members of our community throughout the age span as you, the servant leaders, participate in each role. As we gather round the table, the procession of the elements is offered by young and mature alike. People of all ages are honored in our worship by being served reverently and respectfully during all movements through the liturgy and especially at God’s table. I am truly grateful that we have matured in our understanding of worship as being for all of God’s children. I am thankful that we gather as one people we demonstrate that worship is about our focus on glorifying God. So as we enter worship each week, the welcome is indeed for everyone. We are not entering by way of a sifter that sorts us by age, gender, relationship with the congregation, or even attire, as we are directed to seemingly more appropriate worship activities or experiences. We are welcomed by each other into leadership and witness with a continual and resounding YES to worshiping God together as one people responding to God’s call and giving thanks in our worship together.

To God be the glory.