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Bold text indicates portions of the service to be spoken or sung by the congregation.

MAY 31, 2026

 

Music for Gathering:
“The Spacious Firmament”
Brian Jay

 

Welcome & Announcements:
Rev. Aaron J. White

 

Minute for Mission:
Ensuring Our Future
Guy Shelton

 

Introit:
“Go Ye Into All the World“
Brian Jay

 

Call to Worship:
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars you have set in their courses,
what are mere mortals that you should be mindful of them, human beings that you should care for them?
Yet you have made them little less than divine; with glory and honor you crown them.
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet: all flocks and cattle, the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the fish of the sea.
O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!

 

* Hymn #1 “Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty”

 

* Confession of Sin
Majestic God, you have called us to live in peace, but we turn to conflict and hatred. You yearn for us to work together, but we keep finding reasons to dismiss each other. Forgive us and show us a better way to be your people, your body, your church.

 

* Assurance of Pardon
Rev. Aaron J. White
God knows who we were made to be and has been waiting to help restore us to ourselves, to each other, to community.
Thanks be to God! We are forgiven.

 

* Song of Praise #390  “Praise, Praise, Praise the Lord!”

 

* Passing of the Peace

 

Prayer for Illumination

 

First Reading
Genesis 1:1-2, 4a

 

Second Scripture
Matthew 28:16-20

 

Time for the Children
Hymn #616 “Our God Is an Awesome God”
Rev. Aaron J. White

 

Anthem
“Mighty God, I Will Trust in You”
Alex McCabe

 

Sermon
“Let’s Start from the Beginning”
Rev. Aaron J. White

 

* Hymn 297 “In Christ Called to Baptize”

 

Pastoral Prayer
Congregational Response:  Hear our prayer

 

Invitation to Discipleship

 

 

* Hymn #296  “Go in Grace and Make Disciples”