05/29/2026
Hello FUMC Marion family and friends!
Join us at Marion First United Methodist Church this Sunday, May 31, 2026. Sunday School is at 9:00 am and Worship at 10:00 am.
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CELEBRATION OF WORSHIP
TRINITY SUNDAY
May 31, 2026
ENTRANCE
GATHERING
Rita Pearce
PRELUDE
Marian Smith
OPENING VIDEO
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND GREETING
*WELCOME---“The Oasis of Grace”
Welcome to the Oasis of Grace, where lives are changed and God is praised.
Find Faith Hope and Love in this place. Welcome to the Oasis of Grace.
PROCLAMATION AND RESPONSE
CALL TO WORSHIP
Leader: On this Trinity Sunday, we come to praise the Triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!
People: We praise God who creates, redeems, and sustains all creation!
Leader: We come to wade into the depths of the divine mystery of God, the One-in-Three and Three-in-One.
People: We seek an ever-deepening faith in God who creates, redeems, and sustains all creation!
Leader: We come to witness the interconnectedness of the Triune God, to marvel at the divine dance of partnership and cooperation.
People: We receive the invitation to join the divine dance of God who creates, redeems, and sustains all creation!
Leader: Come, let us worship the Triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!
People: Come, let us worship the Triune God who creates, redeems, and sustains all creation!
(Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries,12/2025)
*HYMN OF PRAISE
“Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty”
No. 64
SHARING JOYS AND CONCERNS
PASTORAL PRAYER- 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 trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.
SPECIAL MUSIC
Erin Rice
OFFERING
*DOXOLOGY
Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above ye heavenly host; praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
OFFERTORY PRAYER
CONGREGATIONAL HYMN
“How Great Thou Art”
No. 77
SCRIPTURE READING
Acts 2:25-36
SERMON VIDEO
SERMON
Pentecost: The Fire Still Burns
“God Went to Hell So You Don’t HAVE To”
Pastor Michelle
Sermon takeaway: We often overlook and/or minimize the extent God, in the form of man, committed Himself to traverse a precarious set of circumstances where He becoming Sin rightly ended up in hell. But somehow having become sin, He was found sinless and places a stranglehold on death, hell and the grave! This truth invites us into God’s transformative ability. You may be hellbound, but you can let God change that narrative, you don’t have to go to hell! (v.25-36)
SENDING FORTH
*HYMN OF SENDING FORTH
“They’ll Know we are Christians by our Love”
from The Faith We Sing (smaller black hymnal) No. 2223
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE
Marian Smith
P.S. Goodbye May and hello June! Here's a look at upcoming events:
Monday, June 8 through Wednesday, June 10 - Soup Kitchen Volunteers needed to serve at Marion Ministerial Alliance
Thursday, June 11 – Trustees meeting at 5pm
Sunday, June 14 – SPRC and COM meeting after worship
Thursday, June 18 – Finance meeting at 5pm, Church Council meeting at 5:30pm
Friday, June 19 – the church office will be closed
Sunday, June 21 – Happy Father’s Day!
Monday, June 22 – the last Upper Room small group study at 5pm
Sunday, June 28 – our last Sunday with our current pastors! We’ll have a potluck at 5pm honoring Pastor Marty, Pastor Veronica, and Pastor Michelle, to share gratitude for this chapter with us and wish them well on the next. More details to come!
Sunday, July 5 – we’ll be celebrating our nation’s 250th birthday during worship
Sunday, July 12 – we’ll have a welcome reception following our new pastor Stan Irvin’s first day to lead worship service!
SHINE continues until August 5! Thanks for all the prayers, donations, and helping hands behind our summer lunch ministry. Volunteer sign-up sheet is on the clipboard.
