2026 SRPC Fast Day — Friday February 20 @ 7:30 p.m. to Saturday February 21 @ 7:30 p.m.*
Here are some recommended spiritual exercises to help structure your time of prayer and fasting:
- Preparation: Meditate upon your own spiritual growth and/or declension in 2025-26. With the help of a church bulletin, consider the condition, progress, and needs of the church, its members, and its mission fields. Ask the Lord for wisdom to discern a few key items to focus upon as you fast and pray. Wait patiently and believingly (with your Bible open) for the Lord’s answer. Write down the results.
- Reading: 2 Peter 1-3
- Study: After READING through the passage, select a few key verses or passages on which to MEDITATE. Try to select portions that will aid you in prayer, as you seek to ADORE the Lord, CONFESS sins, offer THANKSGIVING, and make SUPPLICATION before the throne of grace.
- Prayer: After reading and studying the passage, enter into a time of PRAYER, bringing your Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplications before the Lord. Make sure to include those key requests that you wrote down at the outset of your fast.
- Covenanting: Read over your vows as listed below, along with any written notes from last year’s fast-day (perhaps detailing some of your goals, commitments, and/or prayer requests for the previous year). Prayerfully meditate on the ongoing development of your spiritual life over the past year: confessing your sins, thanking God for His grace, and resolving (with God’s help) to focus on a few specific goals for continued spiritual growth in 2025, as you seek to renew your vows before the Lord.
- Worship: Our communion preparatory service will be held from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. on Saturday February 21 in the church auditorium, followed by a light meal, fellowship, and a personal testimony.
- Literature: TBD
- Sermons: TBD
2026 SRPC Covenant Renewal — Lord’s Day February 22 @ 6:00 PM (List of Vows)**
- Do you believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word of God, the only infallible rule for faith and life?
- Do you believe in the one living and true God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as revealed in the Scriptures?
- Do you repent of your sin; confess your guilt and helplessness as a sinner against God; profess Jesus Christ, Son of God, as your Saviour and Lord; and dedicate yourself to His service: Do you promise that you will endeavor to forsake all sin, and to conform your life to His teaching and example?
- Do you promise to submit in the Lord to the teaching and government of this church as being based upon the Scriptures and described in substance in the Constitution of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America? Do you recognize your responsibility to work with others in the church and do you promise to support and encourage them in their service to the Lord? In case you should need correction in doctrine or life, do you promise to respect the authority and discipline of the church?
- To the end that you may grow in the Christian life, do you promise that you will diligently read the Bible, engage in private prayer, keep the Lord’s Day, regularly attend the worship services, observe the appointed sacraments, and give to the Lord’s work as He shall prosper you?
- Do you purpose to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness in all the relationships of life, faithfully to perform your whole duty as a true servant of Jesus Christ, and seek to win others to Him?
- Do you make this profession of faith and purpose in the presence of God, in humble reliance upon His grace, as you desire to give your account with joy at the Last Great Day?
- Do you believe your children to be the possession of God entrusted to your care?
- In this light, do you promise to provide for their temporal well-being, to teach them to love God and His Word, the Bible, and to provide them with a God-centered education?
- Do you promise to teach them of their sinful nature, of the plan of salvation which centers in Jesus Christ, and their own personal need of a relationship with Christ?
- To the end that they may grow in the Christian life, do you promise to pray for them, and to train them to read the Bible, to pray, to keep the Lord’s Day and to understand the nature of the Church, the value of its worship and fellowship, and their need to seek communicant membership in the church?
- Do you promise to lead them, by your example and parental discipline exercised in love, to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness in all the relationships of life?
- Do you make these promises in the presence of God, in humble reliance upon His grace, as you desire to give your account with joy at the Last Great Day?
- Do you, the communicant members of Southfield Reformed Presbyterian Church, acknowledge all our baptized children as members of this fellowship and promise to pray for them, and to help and encourage their parents as they seek to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord?
* Participants with special diets and/or health complications of any kind are strongly encouraged to consult a physician and to use their best judgment in appropriately modifying the fast so as not to take any unnecessary health risks.
** Vows 1-7 (all communicant members); Vows 8-13 (communicant members w/ baptized covenant children residing at home — even if your children were baptized in another denomination!); Vow 14 (all communicant members).
Ordination Vows (officers): https://reformed.com/leadership/vows/