Sunday Service - November 1st 2026 - First Presbyterian Church of Cooperstown

November 1, 2026, 10:00 a.m.

All Saints’ Sunday

Preaching: Rev. Jess Lambert

Sermon: "The Flawed and the Loved"

Liturgist: Karen Dunlap

Bulletin: https://www.cooppres.org/s/November-1-2026-J-Lambert.pdf

Full Service: https://youtube.com/live/ZJqL_99j5As?feature=share

Scriptures:

Revelation 7:9-17

Matthew 5:1-12

Cover Art: http://SundaysAndSeasons.com

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 Jess:

Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

Matthew 5:7

This Sunday, we celebrate All Saints Sunday, which means many different things to different traditions and people. For some, it’s a day to remember and mourn those who have died. For others, the focus is on famous saints - the apostles, martyrs, healers, visionaries and miracle-workers - who, after their death, were given a day on which the Church remembers them every year.

In my faith tradition, the focus was on Baptism, because we were taught that it is that sacred bath and God’s Word that make one a saint, not a confirmed miracle or martyrdom. So, on All Saints’ Sunday, we talked about what it means to be a saint while being alive in a very complicated world, as a very complicated and conflicted person. Saint and sinner, both. Deeply flawed, and wholly loved. Full of contradictions. We may do some really big, wonderful things in our lives, but our goodness is not what makes us saints- it’s God’s unambiguous declaration that we are beloved.

We didn’t ignore our grief at having lost people we loved. In typical paradoxical fashion, we mourned, and celebrated that because of the promise of resurrection, our beloved dead were still present with us, especially at the communion table. We all ate together, every time, the whole communion of saints.

I personally like learning about the lives and acts of those “official” saints. I often find them fascinating and inspiring, and in the end they come across as real human beings, just as complex as the rest of us. But what I really love is being a witness to all of you saints, and how you live in this world of despair and joy- how you show mercy, how you discern what the next right thing to do is, how you struggle to be faithful and loving while feeling exhausted by

those who are giving the name “Christian” a newly terrifying reputation, one that not only lacks mercy, but thinks that mercy is dangerous and weak. You reveal that lie for what it is.

Blessed are you, all you saints.

My Office Days for the week of 11/2 are Monday & Wednesday, and Tuesday for Bible Study at 10:30.

Rev. Jess Lambert

https://www.cooppres.org/pastor-message

Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from OneLicense.com with license #A-724436. All rights reserved.

Scenes From Service - November 1st 2026

From Cooperstown First Presbyterian Church

All Saints’ Sunday

Preaching: Rev. Jess Lambert

Sermon: "The Flawed and the Loved"

Liturgist: Karen Dunlap

Bulletin: https://www.cooppres.org/s/November-1-2026-J-Lambert.pdf

Full Service: https://youtube.com/live/ZJqL_99j5As?feature=share

Sermon: "The Flawed and the Loved"

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZJqL_99j5As?si=EzjKSjBQEjfJVLwP&t=1661

MFM Stewardship - September Schecter

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZJqL_99j5As?si=E_tEnmNIQwxzjM6Q&t=2672

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Joys and Concerns

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZJqL_99j5As?si=YyOKgwCVulr2763K&t=3117

Communion

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZJqL_99j5As?si=CNySmpuQXyPLffXw&t=3919

Blessing

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZJqL_99j5As?si=Jd0Ylv3GMirWOZiT&t=4652

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Musical Performances:

MUSICAL OFFERING

“For All the Saints”

Text by John Bell (b.1949)

English folk melody O Waly Waly harmonized by John Weaver (1937-2021)

Words © 1996 WGRG The Iona Community (Scotland), admin. by GIA Publications, Inc.

The Chancel Choir

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZJqL_99j5As?si=0-xgZjltb-zfz3bX&t=1040

OFFERTORY

“Blessed are the peacemakers”

from “The Beatitudes: Organ Reflections on the Blessings of Jesus”

Roberta Rowland-Raybold (b.1938)

Edited by Carson Cooman Copyright © 2018 Lorenz Publishing Company,

a division of The Lorenz Corporation. All rights reserved.

Peter Deysenroth, organist

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZJqL_99j5As?si=Aq_MDI29TDMFpqoO&t=2907

Cover Art: http://SundaysAndSeasons.com

Please contribute to our ministry and good works in this community and around the world

https://www.CoopPres.org/donate

Preaching Sunday, November 8th 2026

Rev. Jess Lambert

Sermon: "Wake Up, and Do Justice"

Scriptures:

Amos 5:18-24

Matthew 25:1-13

Hymns:

My Lord! What a Morning, #352

“Sleepers, Wake!” A Voice Astounds Us, #349

Let Streams of Living Justice

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Permission to reprint, podcast, and/or stream the music in this service obtained from OneLicense.com with license #A-724436. All rights reserved.