June 20, 2021

Many ways to worship!

10:00 am - In-person outside worship - no reservation needed

A craft project for children will take place on the patio. Please be sure your child over 3 is wearing a mask. 

10:00 am Park near the church and listen to the service on radio at 88.1 FM

10:30 am - Live Streaming Sermon on Pastor Pete's facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/peter.allen.5070276



11:00 am - Full Worship Service on HCC's YouTube Channel:  

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwvLqzvjbXllo7SErFpyLdg

You can also view the bulletin by going to hccucc.com - Worship and Music,

Bulletins and Announcements.

The service will remain on Facebook and YouTube if you would like to watch later.

Hingham Congregational Church,

United Church of Christ

 An Open and Affirming Congregation

June 20, 2021

10 a.m.

Order of Worship

Prelude

This Is My Father's World

Sarah England, piano

arr. Smith

We encourage you to take this opportunity to be in quiet prayer and reflection.

Welcome and Announcements

Rev. Dr. Peter W. Allen

Introit                    

Like as a Father Luigi Cherubini      Senior Choir

Arr. A. Lovelace

Hymn

Lift Every Voice and Sing

NCH #593

Lift Every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring, ring with the

harmonies of liberty; Let our rejoicing

rise, high as the listening skies, let it resound loud as the

rolling sea. Sing a song full of the

faith that the harsh past has taught us, Sing a song full of the

hope that the present has brought us; Facing the

rising sun of our new day begun, let us march

on till victory is won.

Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod, felt in the

days when hope unborn had died; Yet with a steady

beat, have not our weary feet, come to the place for which our

people sighed? We have come over a

way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our

path though the blood of the slaughtered, out from the

gloomy past, till now we stand at last where the white

gleam of our bright star is cast.

God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, God who hasbrought us this far on the way; God, who by your

might, led us into the light, keep us forever in the

path, we pray. Lest our feet stray from the

places, our God, where we meet you, Lest our hearts, drunkwith the

Wine of the world, forget you; Shadowed be-

Neath your hand, may we forever stand, true to our

God, true to our native land.

*Opening Prayer (in unison)                                       

Center us, O God, to worship you this day. Remove our needless armor. Be our stronghold. Grant us calm. Give us joyful hearts and ready minds, that we may be open to your grace. Amen.

 (Silence)

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 and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

*Please feel free to pray as you wish. We respect tradition  — and we welcome images of the Divine that are diverse and inclusive.

Children's Message

Jen DiMarzio, Teacher

Special Music  

Freedom is Coming   

South African Freedom Song

Ministry of the Word

Scripture Reading: I Samuel 17 selected verses

Deacon Kris Shorey

David and Goliath

Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle; they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim. And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span. He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armoured with a coat of mail; the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze. He had greaves of bronze on his legs and a javelin of bronze slung between his shoulders. The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and his shield-bearer went before him. He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, ‘Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me. If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.’ And the Philistine said, ‘Today I defy the ranks of Israel! Give me a man, that we may fight together.’ David rose early in the morning, left someone in charge of the sheep, took the provisions, and went as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment as the army was going forth to the battle line, shouting the war cry. Israel and the Philistines drew up for battle, army against army. David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage, ran to the ranks, and went and greeted his brothers. As he talked with them, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him. David said to Saul, ‘Let no one’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.’ Saul said to David, ‘You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.’ But David said to Saul, ‘Your servant used to keep sheep for his father; and whenever a lion or a bear came, and took a lamb from the flock, I went after it and struck it down, rescuing the lamb from its mouth; and if it turned against me, I would catch it by the jaw, strike it down, and kill it. Your servant has killed both lions and bears; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.’ David said, ‘The Lord, who saved me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will save me from the hand of this Philistine.’ So Saul said to David, ‘Go, and may the Lord be with you!’

Saul clothed David with his armour; he put a bronze helmet on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail. David strapped Saul’s sword over the armour, and he tried in vain to walk, for he was not used to them. Then David said to Saul, ‘I cannot walk with these; for I am not used to them.’ So David removed them. Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the wadi, and put them in his shepherd’s bag, in the pouch; his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.

The Philistine came on and drew near to David, with his shield-bearer in front of him. When the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was only a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance. The Philistine said to David, ‘Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?’ And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. The Philistine said to David, ‘Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the field.’ But David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with sword and spear and javelin; but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head; and I will give the dead bodies of the Philistine army this very day to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not save by sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s and he will give you into our hand.’

When the Philistine drew nearer to meet David, David ran quickly towards the battle line to meet the Philistine. David put his hand in his bag, took out a stone, slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead; the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell face down on the ground.

Sermon                    

The Power of God: Juneteenth and It’s

Lessons for Today

Rev. Dr. Peter W. Allen

Pastoral Prayer and Silent Prayer

Daryl Denelle, Ministry Intern

Hymn

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

PH #443

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of rath are stored;

He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword;

His truth is marching on. Glory! glory! halle

lujah! Glory! glory! Hallelujah!

Glory! glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;

They have builded him an alter in the evening dews and damps;

I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps,

His day is marching on. Glory! glory! halle

lujah! Glory! glory! Hallelujah!

Glory! glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;

He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat;

O be swift, my soul, to answer him; be jubilant, my feet!

Our God id marching on. Glory! glory! halle

lujah! Glory! glory! Hallelujah!

Glory! glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,

With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me;

As he died to make us holy, let us live to make all free!

While God is marching on. Glory! glory! halle

lujah! Glory! glory! Hallelujah!

Glory! glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

Congregational Commissioning (in unison)

Brothers and sisters, may we leave this place of worship with 

Christ’s spirit in our hearts. May we encourage the fainthearted: help the weak; practice patience with all; seek to do good;

rejoice always; pray without ceasing and give thanks in all 

circumstances. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for us.

Praise be to God!

Benediction

Postlude

Faith of Our Fathers 

Sarah England, piano

arr. Innes

Many thanks to our wonderful HCC staff, our talented volunteer musicians, and Sarah England, Deacons Kris Shorey, and Susan Wells, cameraperson, Carter Anderson for making this service possible, as well as Steve Waynen and Bruce Shorey for making this service possible.

Please keep in 

           your prayers...

• Josh Antoine
• Stephanie Minister’s cousin, Doreen Kiley.
• Nancy Mooney
•  Bud and Connie Thompson
• Elise England, 14 year old recovering from surgery
• Susan Wells, recovering from surgery 
• Karin Sloan, whose father passed away recently
• Stoddard Rowley’s father, Phil Rowley, with health concerns
•  Friends of Mark Beck, Mike & Tamara Newberry, with health concerns, 
• Nick Nasson, with health concerns
• Peter Edson’s sister, Dale, with health concerns
• Ann Holmes, Priscilla Anderson’s mother
• Al Carpenter 
• Ryan Lamonde, prayers for peace and courage  
• People in abusive households
• Allan Bacon, Carolyn Antoine's brother 
• Peter Edson
• Daryl Denelle, seeking ordination

Rev. Dr. Peter Allen, Senior Pastor 

Pastor@hccucc.com

David Giessow, Director of Music

David@figgypuddin.com

Brett Anderson, Director of Technology

brettanderson1@aol.com

Todd Swavey, Tenor

todd.swavey@gmail.com

Susanne Mullin, Office Administrator

churchoffice@hccucc.com

Daryl Denelle, Ministry Intern

daryl.denelle@yale.edu

Dr. Eileen Hutchins, Organist

hutchins.kungie@verizon.net

Will Exantus, Facilities Manager

wezantus2002@yahoo.com

Priscilla Anderson, Teacher

freedomhorsefarm57@yahoo.com

Jen DIMarzio, Interim C/E Director

jendimarzio@gmail.com

Help Needed

Do you have an over-18 young adult living at home this summer who is looking for a little extra income? Hingham Congregational Church is seeking a nursery caregiver or two for Sunday mornings, starting July 11. Hours are 8:45-10:15. Please message (pastor@hccucc.com) if you have an interested family member, neighbor, or friend. Opportunities for longer-term employment are available.