Trinity Presbyterian Church
Online Worship Service
for August 2, 2020 – Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
Welcome and Announcements
Welcome to Trinity Presbyterian Church’s worship service online!
This is the nineteenth online worship service for Trinity and our twenty-first not held in the Trinity Presbyterian Sanctuary due to the COVID-19 crisis.
If you prefer, we have a version of this service available on that is a single ‘full-service’ video. To try that version of the service, click HERE.
Communion is celebrated during Online Worship today, August 2nd. Those wishing to participate should have a piece of bread and beverage ready. Communion is celebrated at Trinity on the first Sunday of every month.
Hymn books are available to borrow if you would like to use at home to follow along with your bulletin or online worship. 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 “I Will Rise”
- Call to Worship
- Hymn #833 “O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go”
- Prayer of the Day
- A Prayer of Confession
- Declaration of Forgiveness
- Gloria Patri (Hymn #581)
- Gospel Reading
- Anthem “When Peace Like a River”
- Children’s Sermon
- Scripture Reading
- Meditation “Convinced Am I”
- Affirmation of Faith (Nicene Creed)
- Prayers of the People
- Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
- Hymn #846 “Fight the Good Fight”
- Benediction
- Congregational Response (Hymn #306)
- Offering to God
Preparation for Worship
Let us join together now and prepare for worship.
Prelude “I Will Rise”
Trinity Chancel Choir
Tomlin
Call to Worship
Leisa Gardner, lay reader
We come to feast on the life-giving Word.
Here, love abounds and grace overflows.
Here, blessings multiply as gifts are shared.
Come—let us pour ourselves out in prayer and praise,
and open ourselves to renewal and rest.
Hymn #833 “O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go”
I rest my weary soul in thee;
I give thee back the life I owe,
that in thine ocean depths its flow
may richer, fuller be.
I yield my flickering torch to thee;
my heart restores its borrowed ray,
that in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
may brighter, fairer be.
I cannot close my heart to thee;
I trace the rainbow through the rain,
and feel the promise is not vain
that morn shall tearless be.
I dare not ask to fly from thee;
I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
and from the ground there blossoms red
life that shall endless be.
St. Margaret
Prayer of the Day
[I ask] God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects—bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for the display of all patience and steadfastness, joyfully giving thanks to the Father who has qualified you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.
–-Colossians 1:9b-12
Prayer of Confession
Leisa Gardner, lay reader
Your mercy overflows to fill deserted landscapes with hope and grace.
In you there is always more than enough.
But we see only scarcity:
too few resources to share with our neighbors,
too little energy to respond to those in need.
We turn from those who suffer rather than offering compassion and care.
Transform us, we pray.
Open our hands to share freely and generously and stretch our hearts to new expressions of love.
(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)
Judith Spurrell, soprano
Gospel Reading
Feeding the Five Thousand. Listen for God speaking to you today.
Leisa Gardner, lay reader
Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. 14 When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. 15 When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” 16 Jesus said to them, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” 17 They replied, “We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish.” 18 And he said, “Bring them here to me.” 19 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. 20 And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. 21 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
Anthem “When Peace like a River”
Jody Dutton, soprano, accompanied by Heasuk Che, organist.
Ville Du Havre
Children’s Sermon
Brooke Tucker, Director of Faith Formation
Scripture Reading
God’s Love in Christ Jesus. Listen for God speaking to you today.
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. 27 And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn within a large family. 30 And those whom he predestined he also called; and those whom he called he also justified; and those whom he justified he also glorified.
31 What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us. 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written,
we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”
Meditation “Convinced Am I”
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe
Affirmation of Faith (Nicene Creed)
Leisa Gardner, lay reader
Prayers of the People
all the earth and every grain of sand in it.
May we love every leaf, every ray of your light.
You have given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
Let us not trouble it;
let us not harass them,
let us not deprive them of their happiness,
let us not work against your intent.
all is flowing and blending,
and that to withhold any measure of love from anything in your universe
is to withhold that same measure from you. Amen.
— For Nature, by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe
Hymn #846 “Fight the Good Fight”
Christ is thy strength and Christ thy right.
Lay hold on life, and it shall be
thy joy and crown eternally.
lift up thine eyes, and seek Christ’s face.
Life with its way before us lies;
Christ is the path, and Christ the prize.
God’s boundless mercy will provide.
Trust, and thy trusting soul shall prove
Christ is its life, and Christ its love.
God changeth not, and thou art dear.
Only believe, and thou shalt see
that Christ is all in all to thee.
Duke Street
Benediction
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe
Congregational Response (#306)
Leslie Russo, Lillian Warner, Julie Pearson, Jillian Koenig (flutist), Judith Spurrell, Jody Dutton, and 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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