Sunday Worship

In a world of distraction, presence

When and Where

Sundays at 10am

829 S Rockford

Coffee Hour to follow

What to Expect

Worship with The Rockford Mission is contemplative, responsive, and joyful.

We want the church to serve as a refuge for those who seek refreshment through Jesus’ word and at his table. Come as you are. Most people dress casually or semi-formally, and we love having children in worship. If things get a little noisy, we like to remind ourselves that ultimately our Sunday gathering is a feast of celebration for the new life we have in Christ.

Our gatherings run for roughly 80 minutes and follow a historic Christian liturgy: a shared pattern of singing, Scripture, preaching, prayer, confession and communion that Christians have practiced for centuries.

After worship, we invite you to join us for coffee hour in the sanctuary. It’s a great place to meet someone new and the hear about how God is active in our lives.

Don't worry if you've never experienced liturgical worship before—everything you need is provided, and no one expects visitors to know the responses. Grab a bulletin to help guide you as we walk through our rhythm of:

  • Though we come from many different places, carrying our own personal hopes, victories, joys, limps, wounds, fears, and doubts, when we gather together we join our voice as one people of God in Christ. Through the opening acclamation, praying shared prayers (called collects) informed by the church calendar, and singing songs which shape our imaginations and give voice to the longings of our hearts, we set our intention to meet with God as we gather.

  • After we join our voices together, we open the Scriptures to listen for God, believing that all of Scripture is a sermon. Each week we read from multiple places in Scripture, giving ourselves an opportunity to hear a concert of voices giving testimony to the God who has made us his children in Christ. We continue our listening in the sermon, where we ask for God’s light to illumine our minds and hearts as we behold him, and to invite our obedient response.

  • We respond to the proclamation of the good news by confessing our faith through the historic words of the Nicene Creed, by interceding on behalf of the world through the Prayers of the People, confessing our sin, and receiving absolution (an assurance of pardon in Christ) as we prepare to meet Jesus at his table.

  • Our service is an ascent towards the table: what Scripture makes true to us in the abstract, that Jesus Christ came to save sinners, the communion table makes real to us in substance. This sacrament serves as a sure and certain sign of God’s grace to us–a tangible remembrance of Jesus’s sacrificial death that points forward to the resurrection meal we will enjoy with him at his return.

  • To conclude our service, we are sent: commissioned out as the people of God who are called to the many places, vocations, and relationships in which we will find ourselves during the week. We are sent as those who have received Christ’s presence in word and at the table, and are called to offer this presence to a world that desperately longs to know him.

What about Kids?

We offer developmentally appropriate teaching for our children for those in 5th grade and younger.

  • Children 0-3 begin worship in their classroom.

  • Children 4 and older are invited to participate in the worship gathering with their parents before they are dismissed to class.

  • Children of all ages rejoin us when we take communion together.

The Rockford Mission is a plant of Cornerstone Tulsa. We are a part of Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO), which is built on five key values: Kingdom, Spirit, Formation, Mission, and Sacrament.