Sunday February 22, 2026

 Blessings

 

 Good Morning!

 

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  Prelude:  This is Jesus

 

 

 Sunday February 22, 2026

     The Gifts of Lent 

 

 

Call to Worship and Prayer 

 

 

Hymn, "How Firm a Foundation"

    Offering and Doxology 

 

 

Hymn, "All I Once Held Dear"

 Praise and Prayers 

 

 

Drama-- The Widow

 

 

Responsive Reading  Matthew 6:1-9

 

 

Hymn, "And Can it Be"

 

 

Special Music- "Living Sacrifice" by Chris Christian

 

 

Sermon:  "The Heart of a Widow" 

 

 

Hymn, "The Love of God" 

 

 

 Prayers:
Mary Sherwood, sign-in book, sing along,  Mike Shipley, Rockport, Don Shipley,  Beth- health issues,  Mindy-health issues, Davie Warren, Penny’s brother, decisions.  Lucy Roth (Beth’s friend), cancer, Kaden Frye, H.S. senior, cancer,  Rick Thompson, liver cancer, Pastor Donna, cataract surgery,  Lynn Handy, at the Ambassador, Barb Handy, caretaker

 

 Praises:
Jo Ann’s Physical Therapy going well; Laura Lueth’s present of a picture to Pastor Donna; visit with Clint and Glenda’s grandchildren Paisley and Aubrey from Omaha;  work on quilt square for the church under Mary’s guidance, Clint and Glenda’s daughter had a successful knee surgery, beautiful sunshine!

 

 

 Coming Up:

 

March 28th, Saturday: Community Breakfast at church, 7:30 am to 10:30. Menu includes pancakes, sausage, sausage gravy and biscuits. Art activity for the children. Free will donation to the Percival Church. 

 Easter Egg Hunt at the Percival Park 10:30 a.m.  Have your picture taken with the Easter Bunny! Sponsored by the Percival Hometown Pride.

March 29th, Palm Sunday: PCC hosts a pancake breakfast for congregants, 10 am.

 

April 3, Good Friday  4:00 p.m. 

April 5th, Easter 10:00 a.m.

May 9th, Saturday, Mother’s Day Tea with children, at the church.

 

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Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. ~ unknown  

 

 

 

 

 Today's Sunday Church Share...

 

 

 Picture via Pinterest

 

 

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Percy's Tidbit 

 

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Have a great week

Sunday, February 15, 2026

 Blessings

 

 

 

Prelude:  "My Jesus I Love Thee"

    Rosemary Siemens 

 

 Sunday, February 15th, 2026
     “It’s All About Love”

Call to Worship and Prayer
     Matthew 22:34-40

Hymn, “I Stand Amazed”
 Offering and Doxology

Hymn, “If That Isn’t Love”
      Praise and Prayers

Responsive Reading
   I Corinthians 13

Leader If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do no thave love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

All If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Leader If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

All Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Leader It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

All Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

Leader It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

All Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

Leader For we know in part and we prophesy in part,

 
All but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.

Leader When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of  childhood behind me.

All For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

Leader And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Hymn, “Jesus Loves Even Me”

 Special Music
“Perfectly Loved” by Rachael Lampa

 

Sermon
“Love Gets Messy”

Hymn, “The Love Of God”

 

 Prayers:
Mary Sherwood, sign-in book, sing along,  Mike Shipley, Rockport, Don Shipley,  Beth- health issues, Davie Warren, Penny’s brother, decisions.  Lucy Roth (Beth’s friend), cancer, Kaden Frye, H.S. senior, cancer,  Rick Thompson, liver cancer, Pastor Donna, cataract surgery,  Lynn Handy, at the Ambassador, Barb Handy, caretaker

 

 Praises:
Jo Ann’s Physical Therapy going well; Laura Lueth’s present of a picture to Pastor Donna; visit with Clint and Glenda’s grandchildren Paisley and Aubrey from Omaha;  work on quilt square for the church under Mary’s guidance, Clint and Glenda’s daughter had a successful knee surgery, beautiful sunshine!

 

 

 Dates to remember:
In February Mary Zach is creating a Barn Quilt Square for our church!

Today! February 15th: PCC lunch at Valentino’s in Nebraska City after the service.

March 28th, Saturday: Percival Hometown Pride pancake breakfast at church, 7:30 am to 11:30 am; free will donation. Noon Easter egg hunt, Percival Park

March 29th, Palm Sunday: PCC hosts a pancake breakfast for congregants, 9 am.

April 5th, Easter

May 9th, Saturday, Mother’s Day Tea with children, at the church.

 

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 Our new barn quilt...

 

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Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. ~ unknown  

 

 

 

 

 Today's Sunday Church Share...

 

Picture via Pinterest

 

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Percy's Tidbit

 

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Have a great week