Worship Bulletin - Hampstead Congregational Church UCC

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Hampstead Congregational Church

May 31, 2026

Trinity Sunday

No Matter Who You Are or Where You Are on Life’s Journey,

You are Welcome Here!

Order of Worship

Prelude Herb Tardiff

Greetings and Announcements

Call to Worship (responsive) Rick Little

On this Trinity Sunday, we come to praise the Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!

We praise God who creates, redeems, and sustains all creation!

We come to wade into the depths of the divine mystery of God, the One-in-Three and Three-in-One.

We seek an ever-deepening faith in God who creates, redeems, and sustains all creation!

We come to witness the interconnectedness of the Triune God, to marvel at the divine dance of partnership and cooperation.

We receive the invitation to join the divine dance of God who creates, redeems, and sustains all creation!

Come, let us worship the Triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit!

Come, let us worship the Triune God who creates, redeems, and sustains all creation!

Invocation (unison) Rick Little

God in Three Persons, Blessed Trinity, We ask for your presence to enter this space. We know that in self-giving love,

Your very nature teaches us how to love one another.

Father and Creator,

Son and Redeemer,

Spirit and Advocate,

We call upon you to teach us this hour.

Teach us to pray.

Teach us to love.

Teach us to be one, as you are one.

With all of our divisions we create with our own biases,

From social class to race,

From gender to age,

From ability to different abilities,

We know we still have much to learn.

Teach us this hour, we pray, Amen.

Passing of the Peace of Christ

(Feel free to pass the peace by shaking hands, offering hugs or waves. Those who would like to share peace without physical contact are invited to place their hands over their hearts in greeting.)

*Opening Hymn:

Scripture Readings: Psalm 8, Mt 28: 16-20 (NRSVUE) Rick Little

Psalm 8

O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

You have set your glory above the heavens.
² Out of the mouths of babes and infants
you have founded a bulwark because of your foes,
to silence the enemy and the avenger.

³When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars that you have established;
⁴what are humans that you are mindful of them,
mortals that you care for them?

⁵Yet you have made them a little lower than God
    and crowned them with glory and honor.
⁶You have given them dominion over the works of your hands;
    you have put all things under their feet,
⁷all sheep and oxen,
    and also the beasts of the field,
⁸the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea,
    whatever passes along the paths of the seas.

⁹O Lord, our Sovereign,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!

Matthew 28: 16-20

¹⁶Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. ¹⁷When they saw him, they worshiped him, but they doubted. ¹⁸And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ²⁰and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Children’s Message

Sermon: "God Talk” Rev. Paige Besse-Rankin

Special Music

Call for Concerns & Celebrations

(Please write joys and concerns on the papers in the baskets in the pews and pass them to an usher. The Congregational Response is: “Hear Our Prayers”)

Pastoral Prayer Rev. Paige Besse-Rankin

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, the power, and the glory forever. Amen.

Call to Offering

*Doxology: NC # 779

Praise God from whom all blessings flow; Praise Christ all creatures here below;
Praise Holy Spirit, Comforter; One God, Triune, whom we adore. Amen.

*Prayer of Dedication Rev. Paige Besse-Rankin

Creating God, from the beginning, you formed light out of darkness, breath from dust, and life from love. In Christ, you walked among us, and through your Spirit, you empower us still. Today, we offer our gifts—signs of our desire to partner with you in your ongoing work of creation, healing, and discipleship. Use these offerings to build communities of compassion, to welcome the stranger, and to teach your ways of justice and joy. May our giving reflect the wonder of your Triune love and our willingness to go and grow disciples in your name. Amen.

*Hymn of Going Forth:

*Benediction Rev. Paige Besse-Rankin

Go now in the blessing of the Triune God who draws you into the divine dance, inviting you to partner in God’s life-giving work to bring flourishing and abundant life to all creation! Amen.