Saturday, October 21, 2023
OPENING MUSIC
“Prelude on RHOSYMEDRE [“My Saviour’s Love to Me”] • Ralph Vaughan Williams
CHORAL INTROIT
“Praise Hymn” • Larry Shackley
WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP
Jenifer Daley, Associate Pastor
“DIVINE LOVE”: A HYMN CYCLE
“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” • 191
“In Heavenly Love Abiding” • words 513, mel. 316
“Jesus Loves Me” • 190 st. 1, 3
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
“Blest Be the Tie That Binds” • 350, st. 1
Paul Smith & L. Monique Pittman, Pioneer Members
PASTOR APPRECIATION MONTH
Bryan and Becky von Dorpowski, Head Elders
OFFERTORY
“Prelude and Birdsong Fugue: ‘Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart!’” • Kenneth Logan
CHILDREN’S STORY & PRAYER
Alina Baltazar, Pioneer Member
SCRIPTURE READING
Proverbs 5:15-18 (NIV)
Johnny Suarez, Pioneer Member
WORSHIP IN MUSIC
“The Greatest Gift” • Lynn Bailey and Becki Mayo
MESSAGE
“How To Stay Married Forever & Like It: After You Say ‘I Do’”
Shane Anderson, Lead Pastor
HYMN OF COMMITMENT
“’Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” • 524, st. 1, 3-4
CLOSING MUSIC
“How Fair and How Pleasant Art Thou” • Marcel Dupré
OPENING MUSIC
“Prelude on RHOSYMEDRE [“My Saviour’s Love to Me”] • Ralph Vaughan Williams
CHORAL INTROIT
“Praise Hymn” • Larry Shackley
WELCOME & CALL TO WORSHIP
Jenifer Daley, Associate Pastor
PRAISE
“Open The Eyes Of My Heart” • “I Speak Jesus”
CONGREGATIONAL PRAYER
Paul Smith & L. Monique Pittman, Pioneer Members
BAPTISM
Emmett Elijah Martin with Ben Martin, and Luke Anthony Palmer with Rodney Palmer
WORSHIP IN MUSIC
“The Greatest Gift” • Lynn Bailey and Becki Mayo
PASTOR APPRECIATION MONTH
Bryan and Becky von Dorpowski, Head Elders
OFFERTORY
“Prelude and Birdsong Fugue: ‘Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart!’” • Kenneth Logan
CHILDREN’S STORY & PRAYER
Alina Baltazar, Pioneer Member
PRAISE
“Raise A Hallelujah” • “Amazed” • “To God Be The Glory”
SCRIPTURE READING
Proverbs 5:15-18 (NIV)
MESSAGE
“How To Stay Married Forever & Like It: After You Say ‘I Do’”
Shane Anderson, Lead Pastor
HYMN OF COMMITMENT
“’Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus” • 524, st. 1, 3-4
CLOSING MUSIC
“How Fair and How Pleasant Art Thou” • Marcel Dupré
Offering for January 3, 2026
Pioneer Operating Budget
There is something special about the beginning of a new year. It’s the energy and the excitement. It’s the opportunities that it offers. It provides the chance to forget the past and its challenges, while we embrace the possibility to start over.
The New Year offers the opportunity for us to look at the future with optimism and gratefulness. For this reason, I like new, don’t you? Paul liked the idea of new also. That’s why he encourages us to look towards the future instead of looking back. He says, “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead” (Philippians 3: 13, 14, NIV), we should press toward the goal to win.
The encouraging thing is, when Christ is in the lead, we must succeed. For this reason, we can embrace the possibilities of the new year– striving to be better stewards for God. So may our goals this year include spending consistent time in worship and developing a relationship of steel with God. May we take care of our wellbeing (physically and psychologically) and witness about His love by using our talents and gifts.
May we faithfully return to God the designated portion of our wealth and take care of our world and the environment. Let’s determine to make 2026 an exceptional year of sacrificial generosity, in our local church and worldwide.
—North American Division Stewardship Ministries
Church Office Holiday Closure: 12/22-12/26 & 12/29-01/02
Please note that the church office will be closed from December 22 to 26 and again from December 29 to January 2 for the holiday season. We will reopen on January 5. Our church services will proceed as always. If you have any announcements, please submit those no later than December 19. Thank you for your understanding. We wish you a blessed Christmas and a happy New Year!
