Trinity Sunday @ St. Paul's UMC: Worship

Trinity Sunday @ St. Paul's UMC

The hand bell sextet offers lovely music

Suzanne offers the postlude

It's Celebration Sunday at St. Paul's!

Rev. Monte Baker and his friend, Holly, worshipped with us

Trinity Sunday

(today's worship recording may be found here)

Today’s Meditation Verse: “God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all the work of creation.”  —Genesis 2:3 (CEB)

Welcome...Pastor Charles

Prelude...Suzanne Polacek / “Spirit of God Descend Upon My Heart,”             arranged by Mark Hayes

*Call to Worship...Amy Abshire

Awesome, wondrous God, dark, deep, and holy One, we come to feel the mystery of Your name. Green growing God, Christ of many stories and disciples, we come to hear the parable of Your love. Bright, flashing God, blowing wind and Holy Spirit, we come to speak the gospel of Your fire. Distant yet intimate God, woven, puzzled, grained by time, we come to find the Trinity of Your grace.

—Before the Amen, eds. Maria Tirabassi and Maren Tirabassi. © 2007 Used by permission of The Pilgrim Press.

*Hymn...“Holy, Holy, Holy” (UMH #64)

Prayer for Trinity Sunday (UMH #76)...Amy Abshire

Holy God, You have given us grace, by the confession of the faith of Your holy church, to acknowledge the mystery of the eternal Trinity and, in the power of Your divine majesty, to worship the Unity. Keep us 

steadfast in this faith and worship and bring us at last to see in Your   eternal glory One God, now and forever. Amen.

Community prayer requests, concerns, and celebrations

Pastoral Prayer...Pastor Charles

Psalter Lesson: Psalm 8, UMH #743...Amy Abshire

Bell Sextet...“Lord of the Dance,” arranged by Jason W. Krug

Gospel Lesson: Matthew 28:16-20...Pastor Charles

This is the Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.

Sermon...Pastor Charles / “In the name of the Trinity”

Communion / The Lord’s Prayer

*Hymn...“Freely, Freely” (UMH #389)

*Words for the Journey...Pastor Charles

Postlude...Suzanne Polacek / “Joy in My Soul,” arranged by Mark Hayes