Trinity Presbyterian Church
Online Worship Service
for July 12, 2020 – Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
Welcome and Announcements
Welcome to Trinity Presbyterian Church’s worship service online!
This is the sixteenth worship service for Trinity and our eighteenth not held in the Trinity Presbyterian Sanctuary due to the COVID-19 crisis.
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 “Seed, Scattered and Sown”
- Call to Worship
- Hymn #104 “O Lord, How Shall I Meet You”
- Prayer of the Day
- A Prayer of Confession
- Declaration of Forgiveness
- Gospel Reading
- Anthem “Love”
- Children’s Sermon
- Scripture Reading
- Meditation “Minds Set Upwardly”
- Affirmation of Faith
- Prayers of the People
- The Lord’s Prayer
- Doxology (Hymn #606)
- Hymn #451 “Open My Eyes That I May See”
- Benediction
- Congregational Response (Hymn #306)
- Offering to God
Preparation for Worship
Let us join together now and prepare for worship.
Dear Family of God – these are trying days in God’s beloved world.
As Christ’s Church, sustained by the Holy Spirit, we have gifts and a call by which to care for one another and our neighbors. Worship in which we encounter our living God and know ourselves connected to the body continues. So this day we expand our worship into our homes, knowing that as we read the same Scriptures, and share in the same prayers, we are held together on this Sunday morning.
Let us prepare our hearts and minds to worship the living Lord.
Prelude “Seed, Scattered and Sown”
Heasuk Che, pianist
D.Feiten
Call to Worship
David Tiernan, lay reader
Hymn #104 “O Lord, How Shall I Meet You”
how welcome you aright?
Your people long to greet you,
my hope, my heart’s delight!
O kindle, Lord most holy,
a lamp within my breast,
to do in spirit lowly
all that may please you best.
love brought you down to me;
your thirst for my salvation
procured my liberty.
O love beyond all telling,
that led you to embrace
in love, all loves excelling,
our lost and fallen race.
in mercy and goodwill,
to bring an end to sadness
and bid our fears be still.
In patient expectation
we live for that great day
when your renewed creation
your glory shall display.
Gerhardt & Teschner
Prayer of the Day
I pray that according to the wealth of his glory [the Father] may grant you to be strengthened with
power through his Spirit in the inner person, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, so
that, because you have been rooted and grounded in love, you may be able to comprehend with all
the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and thus to know the love of Christ
that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
-Ephesians 3:16-19
Prayer of Confession
David Tiernan, lay reader
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.
Gospel Reading
The Parable of the Sower. Listen for God speaking to you today.
David Tiernan, lay reader
Anthem “Love”
Barbara Davis, handbell ringer, and Lillian Warner, piano
arr. L. Warner
Children’s Sermon
Brooke Tucker, Director of Faith Formation
Scripture Reading
Life Through the Spirit. Listen for God speaking to you today.
Meditation “Minds Set Upwardly”
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe
Affirmation of Faith (Apostle’s Creed)
David Tiernan, lay reader
Prayers of the People
God of grace,
hear our prayer.
For your Church in every place,
that we may worship and serve you faithfully…
For leaders and people in every land,
that they may know your way and do your will…
For justice throughout the world,
that there may be peace and plenty for all…
For the earth you have made,
that it may flourish in beauty and show your glory…
For all those who hunger and thirst,
that they may be filled with good things…
For those who are ill or close to death,
that they may know your loving care…
Receive all these prayers, O God, in the tenderness of your mighty hand,
and strengthen our hands to serve you; through Jesus Christ our Lord. 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.
Doxology (Hymn #606)
praise him, all creatures here below;
praise him above, ye heavenly host;
praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Hymn #451 “Open My Eyes That I May See”
glimpses of truth thou hast for me.
Place in my hands the wonderful key
that shall unclasp and set me free.
Silently now I wait for thee,
ready, my God, thy will to see.
Open my eyes; illumine me,
Spirit divine!
voices of truth thou sendest clear.
And while the wave notes fall on my ear,
everything false will disappear.
Silently now I wait for thee,
ready, my God, thy will to see.
Open my ears; illumine me,
Spirit divine!
gladly the warm truth everywhere.
Open my heart, and let me prepare
love with thy children thus to share.
Silently now I wait for thee,
ready, my God, thy will to see.
Open my heart; illumine me,
Spirit divine!
C. Scott
Benediction
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe
Congregational Response
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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