06/05/2026
Livestream Worship Sunday – 10:00 a.m., June 7, 2026
Join us on the Trinity UCC Tiffin: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOKE6R8pcJpPIo1r3hn39OQ
Service may also be viewed on Facebook.
If you can't join us at 10:00 a.m., the service will also be available for viewing later on our channel.
Mission Statement: Trinity United Church of Christ: living and sharing God’s compassion, justice, and peace in all the world.
Liturgist: Larry Kisabeth
LIGHTING THE CANDLES
ANNOUNCEMENTS/JOYS AND CONCERNS
CONTEMPLATIVE MOMENT (If we love, we can’t live life on our own terms. – Thomas Merton)
PRELUDE June’s Lullaby Richard Woods & June Goforth
GREETING
Leader: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
All: And also with you.
SENTENCES OF ADORATION
God’s Love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.
*HYMN OF ADORATION I Come with Joy 349
I come with joy, a child of God, forgiven, loved, and free,
The life of Jesus to recall, in love laid down for me,
in love laid down for me.
I come with Christians far and near to find, as all are fed,
The new community of love in Christ’s communion bread,
in Christ’s communion bread.
As Christ breaks bread, and bids us share, each proud division ends.
The love that made us, makes us one, and strangers now are friends,
and strangers now are friends.
And thus we meet, and better know the Presence, ever near,
And join our hearts and sing with joy that Christ is risen here,
that Christ is risen here.
Together met, together bound in friendship we will stay,
And go with joy to love the world and live the way we pray,
and live the way we pray.
PRAYER FOR TRANSFORMATION AND NEW LIFE
Leader: Merciful and Compassionate God, help us to both rely on You and to be your hands and feet in the world as your vision for a just and peaceful creation comes into being. Like Jesus’s first disciples, remind us that, You have both gifted us with skills and abilities to help others, and that You are often most clearly present through our weaknesses. Help us trust You more fully, listen to your Spirit more deeply, and follow through on our callings.
All: Bless us with your Spirit. Amen.
PRAYER FOR MERCY
Leader: Holy God, Holy and mighty, Holy Immortal One,
All: Have mercy upon us.
WORDS OF GRACE
Leader: As we reach toward God, the Spirit reaches toward us. By the Grace of God, you have been forgiven and empowered to carry on Jesus’s ministry in your daily lives.
All: Amen! May it be so.
ACT OF PRAISE
Leader: Let us sing praise to God.
All: We will continually praise God’s holy name.
*GLORY TO THE CREATOR 759
Glory to the Creator, the Christ, the Holy Spirit, Three-in-One; as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen.
*PASSING THE PEACE
SPECIAL MUSIC: Skye Boat Song arr. Ellen S. Pratt
READING OF SCRIPTURE
Hebrew Testament Psalm Psalm 33:1-12, pg. 643
Hebrew Testament Lesson Genesis 12:1-9 CEB
Greek Testament Epistle Lesson Romans 4:13-25 CEB
Greek Testament Gospel Lesson Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 CEB
CONFIRMATION
SERMON It’s just the beginning… Rev. Karsten
AFFIRMATION OF FAITH 1 Corinthians 12:4-13 See screen
*HYMN Immortal Love, Forever Full 166
Immortal Love, forever full, forever flowing free,
Forever shared, forever whole, a never-ebbing sea!
Our outward lips confess the Name all other names above;
love only knows from where it came and comprehends God's love.
We may not climb the heavenly steeps to bring the Sovereign down;
In vain we search the lowest deeps for One no depths can drown.
But warm, sweet, tender, even yet this One our help will be;
For faith has still its Olivet, and love its Galilee.
The healing of Christ's seamless dress still soothes our beds of pain;
We touch it in life's throng and press, and we are whole again.
Through Christ our earliest prayers are said with words we scarce can frame;
The last low whispers of our dead still echo with Christ's name.
*DOXOLOGY AND PRAYER OF DEDICATION
COMMUNION See screen
*HYMN OF PARTING Lord, Make Me More Holy 75
Lord, make me more holy, Lord, make me more holy.
Lord, make me more holy, until we meet again:
Holy, holy, holy, until we meet again.
Lord, make me more faithful, Lord, make me more faithful.
Lord, make me more faithful, until we meet again.
Faithful, faithful, faithful, until we meet again.
Lord, make me more humble, Lord, make me more humble.
Lord, make me more humble, until we meet again.
Humble, humble, humble, until we meet again.
Lord, make me more righteous, Lord, make me more righteous.
Lord, make me more righteous, until we meet again.
Righteous, righteous, righteous, until we meet again.
SONG OF SIMEON See screen
*COMMISSIONING AND BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE God in Peace arr. Tull Glazener
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