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Sunday Service - September 13th 2026 - First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown
September 13, 2026, 10:00 a.m.
Season of Creation - Second Sunday
Preaching: Rev. Faith Gay
Sermon “The Sky’s Other Lights”
Liturgist: Diane Kenworthy
Bulletin: https://www.cooppres.org/s/September-13-2026-Rev-Faith-Gay.pdf
Full Service: https://youtube.com/live/rwoU7HTvbRM?feature=share
“Wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish once these waters reach there. It will become fresh, and everything will live where the river goes. On the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
Ezekiel 47:9, 12
Scriptures:
Psalm 65:5-13
Revelation 22:1-7
John 7:37-39
World Communion Offering 2026 Micah 6:8 Love Kindness
Cover Art: Ezekiel 47:1-12 https://bible.art/p/LePCUs8VeXXYMKTIlgDn/ezekiel-47-1-12
Please contribute to our ministry and good works in this community and around the world
https://www.CoopPres.org/donate
Feel free to submit Joys and Concerns prior to the live stream at
https://www.cooppres.org/joysconcerns
We will make every effort to read them during the service.
From Pastor Faith:
Why do we keep listening for the voice of God and longing for God’s company? Why did Wendell Berry write poems and Dolly Parton write songs? Because - as the book of Genesis tells us - there was a time when we walked together with God in the evening breeze and every ounce of our being longs for that time to come again.
That soul memory overlaps with another longing expressed in the book of Revelation: for a time when death will be no more—no more tears, no more crying, no more pain. No more worrying about illness, suffering or what is to come. No more fear of ICE, fatigue from tariff wars, headaches from doom-scrolling or hasty plans of what to do and where to go if there is another world war.
These bookended longings are our alpha and omega stories combined - and this Sunday, we’ll explore our longing, our lament, for the loss of our walk together with God and our possibilities for a destiny that satisfies that longing once and for all. We’ll look for a destination big enough to sustain a richly-developed, fully-realized human life.
I look forward to seeing you!
Rev. Faith Gay
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from OneLicense.com with license #A-724436. All rights reserved.
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Sunday Service - September 13th 2026 - First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown
September 13, 2026, 10:00 a.m.
Season of Creation - Second Sunday
Preaching: Rev. Faith Gay
Sermon “The Sky’s Other Lights”
Liturgist: Diane Kenworthy
Bulletin: https://www.cooppres.org/s/September-13-2026-Rev-Faith-Gay.pdf
Full Service: https://youtube.com/live/rwoU7HTvbRM?feature=share
“Wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish once these waters reach there. It will become fresh, and everything will live where the river goes. On the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”
Ezekiel 47:9, 12
Scriptures:
Psalm 65:5-13
Revelation 22:1-7
John 7:37-39
World Communion Offering 2026 Micah 6:8 Love Kindness
Cover Art: Ezekiel 47:1-12 https://bible.art/p/LePCUs8VeXXYMKTIlgDn/ezekiel-47-1-12
Please contribute to our ministry and good works in this community and around the world
https://www.CoopPres.org/donate
Feel free to submit Joys and Concerns prior to the live stream at
https://www.cooppres.org/joysconcerns
We will make every effort to read them during the service.
Our Website: https://www.CoopPres.org
From Pastor Faith:
Why do we keep listening for the voice of God and longing for God’s company? Why did Wendell Berry write poems and Dolly Parton write songs? Because - as the book of Genesis tells us - there was a time when we walked together with God in the evening breeze and every ounce of our being longs for that time to come again.
That soul memory overlaps with another longing expressed in the book of Revelation: for a time when death will be no more—no more tears, no more crying, no more pain. No more worrying about illness, suffering or what is to come. No more fear of ICE, fatigue from tariff wars, headaches from doom-scrolling or hasty plans of what to do and where to go if there is another world war.
These bookended longings are our alpha and omega stories combined - and this Sunday, we’ll explore our longing, our lament, for the loss of our walk together with God and our possibilities for a destiny that satisfies that longing once and for all. We’ll look for a destination big enough to sustain a richly-developed, fully-realized human life.
I look forward to seeing you!
Rev. Faith Gay
https://www.cooppres.org/pastor-message
This Weeks Service: https://www.cooppres.org/livestream
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from OneLicense.com with license #A-724436. All rights reserved.
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Scenes From Service - September 13th 2026
From Cooperstown First Presbyterian Church
Season of Creation - Second Sunday
Preaching: Rev. Faith Gay
Sermon “The Sky’s Other Lights”
Liturgist: John Rankin
Sermon https://www.youtube.com/live/rwoU7HTvbRM?si=igPCDojZH7E1wYk1&t=733
Minute for Mission - Sarah Dunlap https://www.youtube.com/live/rwoU7HTvbRM?si=onY25VQYXaT9eU1J&t=2096
Joys and Concerns https://www.youtube.com/live/rwoU7HTvbRM?si=mT9BZ7nHR7EuMr_5&t=2587
Blessing https://www.youtube.com/live/rwoU7HTvbRM?si=dXdk5PME5X_amaRp&t=3062
Musical Performances:
“For the Music of Creation”
Text by Shirley Erena Murray (1931-2020)
Music by Eleanor Daley (b.1955)
Text © 1992 Hope Publishing Company. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Music © 2023 GIA Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.
The Chancel Choir
https://www.youtube.com/live/rwoU7HTvbRM?si=-VgRXuzKxLy-x_Of&t=217
Offertory
“Peace in the Valley” Thomas A. Dorsey (1899-1993)
Written in 1939 during pre-World War II tensions,
Dorsey conceived the song while travelling via train through southern Indiana
Upon observing horses, cows, and sheep all grazing together in a small valley,
he questioned why humankind can’t live together in peace.
Copyright 1939 (“There’ll be Peace in the Valley for Me”)
John LeRoux, bass-baritone5
https://www.youtube.com/live/rwoU7HTvbRM?si=kfh1misrhf8iX4nY&t=2328
Cover Art: Ezekiel 47:1-12 https://bible.art/p/LePCUs8VeXXYMKTIlgDn/ezekiel-47-1-12
Please contribute to our ministry and good works in this community and around the world
https://www.CoopPres.org/donate
Preaching Sunday, September 20th 2026
Rev. Jess Lambert
Sermon: “Water is Life”
Communion Sunday “Bread For The Journey”
Scriptures:
Ezekiel 47:1-12
John 5:2-9
Hymns:
Come to the Water of Life
Out of Deep, Unordered Water, #484
God of Great and God of Small, #19
Visit us online at: www.CoopPres.org
Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from OneLicense.com with license #A-724436. All rights reserved.
Please contribute to our ministry and good works in this community and around the world