Trinity Presbyterian Church
Online Worship Service
for October 18, 2020 – Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost
Welcome and Announcements
Welcome to Trinity Presbyterian Church’s online worship service!
If you prefer, you can view this service on our Worship Service Player. In the player, the service plays from start to finish without interruption. To try that version of the worship service, click HERE.
Sunday Vespers is MOVING to a once-a-month service. There will be NO vesper services for the remainder of October. The next planned vesper service is November 22nd at 4:00 p.m.
An Outdoor Worship Service is planned for Sunday October 25th at 10:00 a.m. (weather permitting). We hope you will be able to attend in-person. Please be sure to bring your mask, a chair, and practice social distancing while on the campus. If you are unable to attend, the online worship service will still be available.
Hymn books are available to borrow. You could use them at home to follow along with the online worship service, bring it to Sunday Vesper, or a Outdoor Worship Service. The Hymn books can be checked out in the Church office, Monday-Thursday from 9am-12pm.
Trinity’s Bible Study is available online. Visit our website or Facebook page to view a video from Rev. Beebe. A new video will be released each week and will be available to watch whenever it is convenient for you. You can also ‘catch-up’ anytime at the Bible Study archive. To be included in our weekly email, simply subscribe to the website or join our Facebook group. Links to subscribe and join are at the bottom of our webpage.
Portions of the liturgy we use in the service are provided by Sanctified Art. Where used, they are identified with a superscript 2 and the copyright acknowledgment is at the bottom of this worship page.
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 “O God, You Are My God”
- Call to Worship
- Hymn #714 “God of the Fertile Field”
- Prayer of Confession
- Declaration of Forgiveness
- Gloria Patri (Hymn #581)
- Prayer for Illumination
- Gospel Reading
- Old Testament Reading
- Anthem “Creation Will Be at Peace”
- Children’s Sermon
- Meditation “Tearing It Up”
- A Stewardship Story
- Affirmation of Faith
- The Lord’s Prayer
- Hymn #708 “We Give Thee but Thine Own”
- Benediction
- Congregational Response (Hymn #306)
- Prayer of Dedication for the Offering
- Offering to God
- Postlude “Give Thanks for Those Whose Faith Is Firm”

Preparation for Worship
Let us join together now and prepare for worship.

Prelude “O God, You Are My God”

Call to Worship
Jane Pellmann, lay reader.

Hymn #714 “God of the Fertile Field”
Pricilla Cahill, Carol Corson, Barbara Davis, Martha Gioielli, Kathy Link, Norma Rogero, Bob Sanders, Judith Spurrell, and Lillian Warner. Accompanied by Heasuk Che (pianist) and Jillian Koenig (flutist).
Italian Hymn
shaper of earth that yields
our daily bread:
forth from your bounteous hand
come gifts your love has planned,
that all in every land
be clothed and fed.
holding in trust from you
all that you give;
help us in love to share,
teach us like you to care
for people everywhere,
that all may live.
to fruit that serves our need,
so your reign grows.
Let all our toil be used,
no gift of yours abused,
no humble task refused
your love bestows.
dear to the Christ who died
to make us one:
we pledge our lives anew
in faithful love to you.
Guide all we say and do.
Your will be done.

Prayer of Confession
You invite us to dream of a better world,
All: But instead we bury our heads in the sand.
We are afraid to recognize how much must change.
We are afraid, because if we know the truth, then don’t we have a job to do?
One: So instead, more often than not, we maintain the status quo.
All: We passively allow things to stay the same.
One: We don’t speak out; we don’t imagine a new day.
All: We don’t dream of a world without racism, sexism, bigotry, or shame.
One: Instead we allow ourselves to believe that some things will never change.
All: Forgive us. Show us the way. Teach us to dream.
One: Teach us to imagine again.
All: Humbly we pray.
Amen. (Silence for Reflection)

Declaration of Forgiveness
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.
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe

Gloria Patri (Hymn #581)
Heasuk Che, organist.

Prayer for Illumination
Jane Pellmann, lay reader.

Gospel Reading
Jane Pellmann, lay reader.

Old Testament Reading
Jane Pellmann, lay reader.

Anthem “Creation Will Be at Peace”
Judith Spurell, soprano, accompanied by Heasuk Che, piano.
Paige

Children’s Sermon
Brooke Tucker, Director of Faith Formation.

Meditation “Tearing It Up”
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe

A Stewardship Story
Martha Gioielli introduces Kelli Jebbia with Brooke Tucker.

Affirmation of Faith – Reimagine
Jane Pellmann, lay reader

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 #708 “We Give Thee but Thine Own”
whate’er the gift may be;
all that we have is thine alone,
a trust, O Lord, from thee.
as stewards true receive,
and gladly, as thou blessest us,
to thee our firstfruits give.
to God the lost to bring,
to teach the way of life and peace:
it is a Christ-like thing.
though dim our faith may be;
whate’er we do for thine, O Lord,
we do it unto thee.

Benediction
Rev Dr Jeffrey Beebe

Congregational Response (#306)
Heasuk Che, organist.
The fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above.

Prayer of Dedication for the Offering

Offering
Please continue to give your offering.
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.

Postlude “Give Thanks for Those Whose Faith Is Firm”

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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2 Written by Sarah Are | A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org