Trinity Presbyterian Church
Online Worship Service
for August 16, 2020 – Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
Welcome and Announcements
Welcome to Trinity Presbyterian Church’s online worship service!
Our single ‘full-service’ video is on vacation this week (along with Arvid Olson). If that style of on-line worship appeals to you most please bear with us this week and then remember to thank Arvid next time you have the opportunity!
Hymn books are available to borrow if you would like to use at home to follow along with your bulletin, use with online worship, or bring it to Outdoor Vespers. The Hymn books can be checked out in the Church office, Monday-Thursday from 9am-12pm.
A new Midweek Bible Study video is available online each week. Visit our website or Facebook page to view a video from Rev. Beebe. The current Bible Study Series uses: “The Disciple Making Church” by Glenn McDonald. A new video will be released each Thursday and will be available to watch whenever it is convenient for you. We hope you will join us!
Briefly, a word concerning the technical presentation of this service. If you are having difficulty reading the words, look for your web browser’s “Zoom” settings. The keystrokes are typically ‘Ctrl-Shift-+’ to increase the zoom or ‘Ctrl-Shift-(minus)’ to decrease the zoom. Other devices may have a different mechanism (‘finger pinch’), but most support zoom.
Although the sanctuary doors will not be open, we hope you will have a meaningful Sunday worship experience!
This week’s bulletin is available at any time by clicking this link. The bulletin will open in a separate tab or window.
Please note the bulletin matches the order of service on this page, but there are additional items that may be of interest to you that are not included on this worship page.
The service this day contains:
- Preparation for Worship
- Prelude “This Little Light of Mine”
- Call to Worship
- Hymn #438 “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me”
- Prayer of the Day
- A Prayer of Confession
- Declaration of Forgiveness
- Gloria Patri (Hymn #581)
- Scripture Reading
- Anthem “All Who Love and Serve Your City”
- Children’s Sermon
- Gospel Reading
- Meditation “On Nothing Less”
- Affirmation of Faith
- Prayers of the People
- The Lord’s Prayer
- Hymn #353 “My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less”
- Benediction
- Congregational Response (Hymn #306)
- Offering to God
Preparation for Worship
Let us join together now and prepare for worship.
Prelude “This Little Light of Mine”
Trinity Handbell Choir (recorded May 2019) directed by Lillian Warner.
arr. Honore
Call to Worship
Sally Smeaton, lay reader
when kindred live together in unity!
A family formed by faith,
we gather to worship the Living Lord.
Lifelong followers seeking sustenance,
new disciples searching for grace—
a family fashioned by faith,
we gather to kneel before the Giver of Mercy.
Children of God, come!
The Lord gathers us in and calls us his own.
Let us praise God!
Hymn #438 “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me”
Jody Dutton, soprano, accompanied by Heasuk Che, organist.
Toplady
let me hide myself in thee;
let the water and the blood,
from thy wounded side which flowed,
be of sin the double cure;
save from wrath and make me pure.
can fulfill thy law’s demands;
could my zeal no respite know,
could my tears forever flow,
all for sin could not atone;
thou must save, and thou alone.
simply to the cross I cling;
naked, come to thee for dress;
helpless, look to thee for grace;
foul, I to the fountain fly;
wash me, Savior, or I die.
when mine eyes shall close in death,
when I soar to worlds unknown,
see thee on thy judgment throne,
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
let me hide myself in thee.
Prayer of the Day
Sally Smeaton, lay reader
Prayer of Confession
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe
We call you the Son of the Living God.
But we do not trust you to be at work in our world here and now.
Jesus asks, “Who do you say that I am?”
You are the Messiah, who delivers us from death to life.
But we doubt your power to transform our lives.
Jesus asks, “Who do you say that I am?”
We profess you are the Christ, the Lord of our lives.
But our attention often wanders and our loyalty is tested.
Forgive us.
Help us not only to proclaim you, but to follow your way of justice and peace.
(Silence for Reflection)
Declaration of Forgiveness
The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting.
I declare to you, in the name of Jesus Christ, we are forgiven.
May the God of mercy, who forgives us all our sins, strengthen us in all goodness, and by the
power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life. Amen.
Gloria Patri (Hymn #581)
Heasuk Che, organist
Scripture Reading
Sally Smeaton, lay reader
Anthem “All Who Love and Serve Your City”
Jody Dutton, soprano, accompanied by Heasuk Che, organist.
Charleston
Children’s Sermon
Brooke Tucker, Director of Faith Formation
Gospel Reading
Meditation “On Nothing Less”
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe
Affirmation of Faith (Apostle’s Creed)
Sally Smeaton, lay reader
Prayers of the People
Your Son, Jesus Christ, invites all people to follow him and become his disciples.
Touch our hearts, enlighten our minds, and stir our spirit.
Help us daily to take up our cross and follow him; by living his Word
and proclaiming his Good News to those around us.
May our faith in you increase, may our hunger for the Gospel intensify,
and may our parish be strengthened as we learn to love one another as he has loved us.
For this we pray, Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
Hymn #353 “My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less”
Jody Dutton, soprano, accompanied by Heasuk Che, organist.
Solid Rock
than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
all other ground is sinking sand;
all other ground is sinking sand.
I rest on his unchanging grace;
in every high and stormy gale,
my anchor holds within the veil.
[Refrain]
support me in the whelming flood;
when all around my soul gives way,
he then is all my hope and stay.
[Refrain]
O may I then in him be found,
dressed in his righteousness alone,
faultless to stand before the throne.
[Refrain]
Benediction
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe
Congregational Response (#306)
Heasuk Che, organist.
The fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above.
Offering
Please continue to give your offering.
God calls us to give all of who we are, and all of what we have to be used in and thru the Church. So let us present our lives. Let us present our gifts unto God. (Offerings can be received in the church by mail or you may utilize online banking options).
You can click the image to the right or this link to give online now. At the online Giving site, select “2020 Pledge” as the Fund to fulfill your 2020 pledge or use another fund if you’re directing your gift elsewhere. Note, the church must pay a small processing fee to receive your contribution via online giving. Increasing your gift would help cover the cost of processing and would be greatly appreciated.
If you’d like to see alternatives to online giving, please take a look at our Contribute page.
The Service has Ended
May the Peace of Christ be with you!
Thank you for joining us online! We hope you will join us again as long as we need to be apart. We pray for the day when we can all meet again and worship God in the sanctuary and Trinity Presbyterian Church.
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