05/31/2026
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May 31, 2026 – Trinity Sunday
Welcome to St. Mark’s United Methodist Church
PRELUDE – Keith Gallion
“King of Kings” by Ligertwood, Ligertwood & Ingram
“Praise the Father Praise the Son” by Ed Cash & Chris Tomlin
GREETING & OPENING PRAYER
CALL TO WORSHIP (responsively)
Leader: In the beginning
People: God created mortals and asked us to care for all creation.
Leader: In the fullness of time, God sent Jesus.
People: Jesus showed us how to love as God loves.
Leader: In our time, and throughout eternity.
People: Jesus commands us to lead others to follow in the name of the Creator, the Christ and Holy Spirit. Amen.
PRAISE & WORSHIP SONGS – led by the Praise Team
“Indescribable” by Jesse Reeves & Laura Story
“God of Wonders” by Marc Byrd & Steve Hindalong
THOUGHTS FOR CHILDREN – Justin Mau
SHARING OF CONCERNS
Pastor Mike will also share requests that have been emailed to [email protected]. Viewers may also share Joys and Concerns with each other through the Facebook comment feed.
UNISON PRAYER
Loving God, in that first spark of creativity you set the cosmos in motion. Time after time, your creative presence brings new life and hope. We experience your love, as we see the marvels of nature. We experience your love, as we study the ethics and compassion of Christ. We experience your love through the ever presence of your Holy Spirit, who was with you in the beginning, was with Christ throughout his ministry, and is with us to the end of the age. For your loving presence in all your infinite ways, we give you thanks. Amen.
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
SHARING OF JOYS
THE SCRIPTURE LESSON – Youth Group
Genesis 1:1–2:4a (NIV)
The Beginning
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.
And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.” So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
Reader: This is the word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God.
GLORIA PATRI (UMH #70)
THE APOSTLES’ CREED (UMH #881)
HYMN OF PREPARATION
“Morning Has Broken” (UMH #145)
THE MESSAGE – Rev. Dr. Michael Roberts
“Spoken into Creation”
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ANTHEM – Chancel Choir
“Awake, My Soul, and Sing!” by Victor C. Johnson
DOXOLOGY & THANKSGIVING (UMH #95)
BENEDICTION
POSTLUDE – Nick Ronaghan
“There is a Redeemer” with “Come, Thou Almighty King” by Melody Green & Felice de Giardini, arr. by Carol Tornquist
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