Hampstead Congregational Church UCC

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Hampstead Congregational Church

June 15, 2025

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)                                                                        David Chin

L: From the very whisper of creation, God poured forth love.

P: Praise be to God for the blessings of God's love.

L: In the fullness of time, God sent Jesus as a revelation of God's own self.

P: Praise be to Jesus for the many ways in which he revealed God to us.

L: When we thought all hope was lost, God offered the Holy Spirit to heal and guide us.

P: Praise be to the Holy Spirit for guidance and inspiration!

L: For the Trinity of understanding, we sing praise!

P: Blessings, honor, power, and majesty to  God forevermore! AMEN.

Invocation   (unison)                                                                                    David Chin

      Author, Word and Translator, we invite you to dwell with us, to form us, and to challenge us. Send a fresh wind to enliven our hearts, minds, and spirits to your word and your truth. Let our worship of you expand our hopes and our convictions and bring your glory. Make us instruments playing our part of the harmonious song of your love in the world. 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:  NC #277 Holy, Holy, Holy  

Scripture Reading:  Proverbs 8: 1-4, 22-31     (NSRVUE)              David Chin

Does not wisdom call
    and understanding raise her voice?
² On the heights, beside the way,
    at the crossroads she takes her stand;
³ beside the gates in front of the town,
    at the entrance of the portals she cries out:
⁴ “To you, O people, I call,
    and my cry is to all who live.

²² “The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
    the first of his acts of long ago.
²³ Ages ago I was set up,
    at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
²⁴ When there were no depths I was brought forth,
    when there were no springs abounding with water.
²⁵ Before the mountains had been shaped,
    before the hills, I was brought forth,
²⁶ when he had not yet made earth and fields
    or the world’s first bits of soil.
²⁷ When he established the heavens, I was there;
    when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
²⁸ when he made firm the skies above,
    when he established the fountains of the deep,
²⁹ when he assigned to the sea its limit,
    so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
³⁰     then I was beside him, like a master worker,
and I was daily his delight,
    playing before him always,
³¹ playing in his inhabited world
    and delighting in the human race.

Children’s Message

Sermon:  Wisdom’s Call                                                   Rev. Paige Besse-Rankin

Special Music

Call for Concerns & Celebrations

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: Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
                    Praise God, all creatures here below;
                    Praise God above, you heavenly host; 
                    One God, Triune whom we adore.

Prayer of Dedication                                                           Rev. Paige Besse-Rankin

      Providing, Generous, and Faithful Love, we demonstrate your goodness by offering these gifts. Receive them for the kindom and increase our impact in this community and the world in your name. Amen.

Hymn of Going Forth:  NC #273 Praise with Joy the World’s Creator

Benediction                                                                            Rev. Paige Besse-Rankin

      Go, now, in the blessing of the Triune God who creates all things, redeems all things, and sustains all things so that we may live out the glory of God’s abundance and peace with one another and all creation. Amen.

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