Online Worship - Sunday, June 6, 2021
“Born of the Spirit”
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The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.
~ John 3:8
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This Sunday as we continue our Pentecost sermon series on the Holy Spirit, we will talk about how the Holy Spirit calls us to new life. What does it mean for us to trust in the Holy Spirit amidst all the changes we've faced in the last 15 months? How do we trust in the Holy Spirit as we face another round of changes? The good news for us is that the Holy Spirit isn’t done with us yet and calls us into new life!
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See below for the Order of Worship.
Click here for the Children’s Worship Bulletin.
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Sunday Worship
June 6, 2021 - 11 AM
“Born of the Spirit”
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Welcome to Trinity online.
As we prepare for a time of worship, we invite you to find an intentional space in your home for worship. We encourage you to light a candle or place something that
reminds you of Trinity or your connection with God nearby. Children are invited
to take out their worship boxes to prepare for worship.
Prelude: It Is Well With My Soul ~ arr. Jason Krug
Trevor Lee, handbells
Welcome and Announcements
As we light our candles in the sanctuary, I invite you to join us in lighting your own candle at home. As we place the cross in the holder, we invite you to place something that reminds you of Trinity or your connection with God in front of you.
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Call to Worship: (based on Romans 8:12-17)
We gather this morning as God’s children.
Let us live by the Spirit!
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God.
Let us live by the Spirit!
Let us not live in fear for we have received a spirit of adoption.
Let us live by the Spirit!
So let us witness with our spirit!
Let us live by the Spirit!
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Hymn: O Spirit of the Living God - Hymnal no. 539 (verses 1 &4)
The United Methodist Hymnal ©1989 The United Methodist Publishing House. All rights reserved.
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Prayer of Confession and Pardon
Merciful God,
we confess that we have not loved you with our whole heart.
We have failed to be an obedient church.
We have not done your will,
we have broken your law,
we have rebelled against your love,
we have not loved our neighbors,
and we have not heard the cry of the needy.
Forgive us, we pray.
Free us for joyful obedience,
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
All pray in silence.
Hear the good news:
Christ died for us while we were yet sinners;
that proves God's love toward us.
In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!
Glory be to God. Amen.
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Passing of the Peace
The Baptismal Covenant
We receive in baptism Alexander Robert Wangelin.
Congregational Response
Do you, as Christ’s body, the Church,
reaffirm both your rejection of sin
and your commitment to Christ?
We do.
Will you nurture one another in the Christian faith and life
and include these persons now before you in your care?
With God’s help we will proclaim the good news
and live according to the example of Christ.
We will surround these persons
with a community of love and forgiveness,
that they may grow in their trust of God,
and be found faithful in their service to others.
We will pray for them,
that they may be true disciples
who walk in the way that leads to life.
Commendation and Welcome
Members of the household of God,
I commend these persons to your love and care.
Do all in your power to increase their faith,
confirm their hope, and perfect them in love.
We give thanks for all that God has already given you
and we welcome you in Christian love.
As members together with you
in the body of Christ
and in this congregation
of The United Methodist Church,
we renew our covenant
faithfully to participate
in the ministries of the Church
by our prayers, our presence,
our gifts, our service, and our witness,
that in everything God may be glorified
through Jesus Christ.
Children’s Time: Hannah Day Donoghue
We invite the children who are worshiping at home to pay extra special attention. Each week Hannah Day Donoghue will send out Children’s Worship Bulletin for the children to do at home during this time.
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Anthem: Ain’a That Good News! ~ William Dawson
Trinity Men’s Quartet
Gordon Johnson and Tom Tyler, tenors; Paul Taylor, baritone; Greg Saunders, bass
I got a crown up in-a the Kingdom, Ain’a that good news! I’m a-goin’ to lay down this worl’, Goin’-a shoulder up my cross, take it home-a to my Jesus...I got a harp up in-a the Kingdom, I got a robe up in-a the Kingdom, I got a Saviour in-a the Kingdom...
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3 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not be astonished that I said to you, ‘You must be born from above.’ 8 The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
The Word of God for the People of God. Thanks be to God.
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Sermon: Born of the Spirit
Healthy Church Team/Post COVID Re-Entry Group Update
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Invitation to the Offering
We invite you to consider giving on-line or giving by text! To give on-line, click here. To give by text, text “GIVE” to 703-783-3034. For further information about online giving, visit here.
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Offertory Prayer
All good gifts come from you, dear Lord,
and from these riches we bring this offering.
Help us to use it for the furtherance of your purpose in this place,
and for the benefit of those in need. Amen.
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Hymn: Wash, O God, Our Sons and Daughters - Hymnal no. 605
The United Methodist Hymnal ©1989 The United Methodist Publishing House. All rights reserved.
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Dismissal with Blessing
During this time, children are invited to take one of the stickers and place it on your clothing to remember that you are sent into the world remembering the love of God and Jesus Christ.
Postlude: Caprice Sur Les Grands Jeux ~ L-N. Clérambault
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The flowers on the altar are given to the Glory of God in loving memory of John Duty Collins, III by Virginia and Susan Collins.
Worship Online this Sunday: While we aren’t meeting in person, we will be worshiping online via livestream on our website and through Trinity’s Facebook page.
Each Saturday evening, we will send out an email with links to the worship sites and the bulletin for worship that Sunday. This Sunday, we will invite you to be intentional about finding a space in your home to worship and to be truly present in a time of worship. For additional questions about how to worship online, please contact the Church Office.
Fellowship Time via ZOOM on Sunday after Church: After worship this morning, we invite you to a time of fellowship via Zoom led by our Program Director Hannah Day Donoghue! This will be a time for us to connect after worship, check-in, and to have a time of conversation about worship. Click here to join. For questions, contact our Program Director, Hannah Day Donoghue.
When the Spirit Moves: A Pentecost Sermon Series (May 23-July4): What is the Holy Spirit? While the Holy Spirit is ever present in the Bible, we often struggle to understand the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in our faith. Through this series, we will explore the powerful and transformative role of the Holy Spirit. What we will see is that the Holy Spirit is God’s breath, our sustainer and advocate, a place of new birth and growth, and calls us into mission and purpose.
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Today’s Prelude is an arrangement for solo ringer by Jason Krug. of the familiar hymn It Is Well With My Soul. It was inspired by a tragic event in Horatio Spafford’s life. The first two were the death of his four-year-old son and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which ruined him financially. His business interests were further hit by the economic downturn of 1873, at which time he had planned to travel to England with his family on the SS Ville du Havre, to help with D.L. Moody’s upcoming evangelistic campaigns. In a late change of plan, he sent the family ahead while he was delayed on business. While crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the ship sank rapidly after a collision with a sea vessel and all four of Spafford’s daughters died. His wife Anna survived and sent him the now famous telegram, “Saved alone …”. Shortly afterwards, as Spafford traveled to meet his grieving wife, he was inspired to write these words as his ship passed near where his daughters had died. Philip Bliss, composer, called his tune Ville du Havre, from the name of the stricken vessel. Copyright © 2015 From, the Top Music All Rights Reserved. Albuquerque, NM Cat # 1097 Streamed with Permission
Trevor Lee started ringing in 1980 at his childhood church in West Fargo, North Dakota, and started solo ringing in 1986. Since 2001, he was a member of the Olivet Lutheran Church (Fargo, ND) bell choir and rang with the community group BELLissimo (Fargo, ND). In addition to ringing, Trevor has been a member of the Area 7 Handbell Musicians of America board (Registrar) since 2005. In 2018, Trevor and his wife, Sandi, moved to Virginia from Moorhead, MN. Trevor has been a member of Virginia Bronze in Northern Virginia. When he is not ringing, Trevor spends his time as Director of Client Services at a software company in Centreville, VA. Trevor and Sandi enjoy reading, gardening, cooking, and spending time at the lake.
Today’s Anthem: Ain’a That Good News! by William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) for male chorus. During the time Dawson was emerging as a young composer, professional touring ensembles from historical black colleges were beginning to face struggles due to budget retractions from the Depression and changing music fashions in pre-World War II America. Dawson’s Tuskegee Choir, which he led from 1931-55, brought about a resurgence in popularity for spirituals. Dawson’s arrangements were unique in that they brought a more vigorous style of singing to spirituals. Spirituals, including Dawson’s are typically performed with a distinctively Southern diction. Early composers of spirituals would often write the lyrics in the actual regional dialect. This may have looked disrespectful to a performer in the post-Civil Rights era. Ultimately, however, composers incorporated this diction in their settings with the intent of preserving and celebrating the unique quality of speech of a unique group of people in a unique place and time. Thanks to the legacy of blackface minstrelsy, there was a tendency in the early 20th century for white audiences to perceive all black music-making as comical. It’s fascinating to see Dawson’s strategic defusing of that danger through the way he handled spirituals in his compositions. He really valued the religious folk song heritage of his enslaved ancestors, and he cared both that they be taken seriously by white audiences, and that they not be abandoned by African American musicians who felt the songs were too demeaned to be worth saving.” Notes from Megan Reich All Classical Portland February 2018 Copyright ©1937, ren. 1965, Revised Edition ©1974 by William L. Dawson Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-713613. All rights reserved.
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Trinity Community News & Prayers |
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It is with great sadness we share the death of Rev. W. Dabney Walters, Julia Walters’s father-in-law on Thursday, May 20th . Rev. Walters was a great man filled with the spirit of Christ. Always smiling, always kind, always calm and encouraging. He will be missed by many but most especially his wife Carolyn, son Richard, Julia’s husband and daughter Wendy as well as two very lucky children-in-law, four grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Please keep the family in your prayers as we travel through this difficult time of loss. Please send condolences to Julia and Richard at 4764 River Shore Rd, Portsmouth, VA 23703.
Join the Trinity Prayer Chain: During times of trial and uncertainty, we pray to grow in our faith and encourage one another. To respond to our growing prayer needs, we will be starting an email prayer chain to share our prayer concerns with one another. We will share joys as well as concerns and needs. If you are interested in being part of this prayer chain or have a prayer request, please email us here.
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As we prepare for when and how we can gather together safely, we have come up with a proposed timeline for hybrid worship. For more information, visit our website here.
PHASE 1: Outdoor Worship
Primary Worship (Sunday at 11 AM) remains online. We will add once a month Outdoor Communion services at 9 AM, in addition to online worship at 11 AM.
PHASE 2: Limited Hybrid Worship begins
We will begin in-person, indoor worship in the Sanctuary that will be live-streamed online. In person attendance will be limited based on safety restrictions and limits imposed by the Governor’s Office and by the Virginia Conference. At this time, there are strict restrictions for in person worship including the preacher being masked or wearing a face shield and no live soloists. These restrictions are anticipated to change over time. The Healthy Church Team will work on details and logistics.
Timeline: Starting July 11, 2021
PHASE 3: Open Hybrid Worship
In-person, indoor worship in the Sanctuary live streamed will continue. As restrictions are lifted, we will be able to invite more people into the sanctuary for worship.
Timeline: September 12, 2021
Please note all of these in-person gatherings will follow appropriate protocols to ensure safety for all such as masking and social distancing, among other safety protocols. This timeline is subject to change based on guidance we receive from the VA Governor’s Office and the VAUMC Bishop’s Office. Click here to read the latest update from Trinity’s Healthy Church Team.
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Trinity Church’s Weekly News |
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Calling all Graduates--High School, College, and beyond! Next Sunday, June 13th we will recognize our graduates at both the 9 AM Outdoor Communion Worship in the Courtyard and our 11 AM online worship. If you are a graduate or have a graduate in your family, please provide the following information to the Church Office by the end of today, Sunday, June 6th: graduate’s name, where they are graduating from, plans after graduation, and contact information. Please also indicate if the graduate will be present for the 9 AM Outdoor Communion Worship on June 13th. Please send all information to our Office Manager, Jenessa Stokes in the Church Office today Sunday, June 6th.
Annual Conference is quickly approaching. It will be online again this year, June 18th & 19th. Click here to visit the conference website for more details. Virginia Methodists for a New Thing is preparing a pre-Annual Conference information sheet for voting delegates. Watch for this in the coming weeks. To prepare our hearts and minds for Annual Conference, we are holding an online worship service on Thursday, June 17th at 8:00 PM on our public Facebook page. As part of the service, we will offer a litany of renewal and thanksgiving for the ministry of the Conference in this difficult year. The litany will feature a responsive reading and we want to hear your voices! We will include as many voices as possible into the final edit. Click here for more information. Submission deadlines for recordings has closed.
Youth Mission Week! Youth 6th-12th graders, join us for Neighboring Mission Week, July 18th-23rd! On July 18th we will have a required worship blessing as well as begin mission activities. This is a Youth and Guardians meeting! Email Hannah Day Donoghue with any questions or concerns.
Laptop to donate? As we work to move worship to hybrid, we are also working on creating options to have hybrid meetings, gatherings and studies. As part of this set up, we are wondering if anyone has a PC laptop or desktop (don't need a monitor) they are no longer using, that they'd be willing to donate to the church? It must run Zoom and have an HDMI port. If you do please email Hannah Day Donoghue.
Expanding our Partnership with Rising Hope: Rising Hope is looking for volunteers to help with unloading food and filling bags to give to clients. The shift starts at 10:30 AM and runs until about 2:30 PM(ish), depending on how many volunteers show. No advanced contact is needed, just show up.
Also, while our weekly delivery of packaged food is so very appreciated, there are personal items that are critically needed but are in low supply. If you want to contribute, bags can be placed in the bin by the church office door, across from the mailbox. We will make sure they are included in the weekly delivery. Below are a list of needs.
- Diapers (size 4 are the most requested, but, larger sizes are always needed)
- Toilet paper
- paper towels
- dish soap
- pot scrubbers
- toothpaste
- toothbrushes
- bar soap
- deodorant
They also stock a “homeless shelf” with items such as tuna or chicken salad snack packs, peanut butter crackers, Ensure drinks, water, applesauce or small fruits and vegetables, pop-top can meals, crackers, etc. for those who do not have access to a kitchen. Please consider these items, as well. Paper bags are also welcome. For additional questions or concerns contact Mary Gillman.
Volunteers Needed to Help with Food Ministry: Mission is seeking volunteers who are willing to make food deliveries to Rising Hope Mission Church on Tuesday or Thursday mornings. Someone from the Mission Team will determine delivery contents and will help you load your vehicle. Sign up here. For additional questions or concerns contact Mary Gillman.
Centering Prayer meets weekly on Wednesdays from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM, via Zoom. Centering Prayer is a 20 minute practice to sit in quiet prayer to make ourselves open to God. A reading is shared by the leader with a short discussion prior to the prayer time. For more information contact, Alva Smircina.
COVID-19 Vaccination Registration Information for Alexandria City Residents who are 65 years and over: If you are 65 and over, or have a condition that places you at high risk for severe illness from COVID-19, please complete this registration form by clicking here. For more information contact Alexandria City Health Department.
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How to give at Trinity:
There are three ways to give at Trinity!
1. Give online through our online donation portal.
2. Give by text at 703-783-3034. Just send a text that says “Give” and the Amount.
For further questions about how to give, visit here!
Trinity has a NEW financial management system.......Breeze. If you still give through Vanco, you can access your Legacy Vanco account here. We encourage you to switch to Breeze, our new online management system as soon as you can. Please cancel your Vanco account first and then send an email to the Church Office so you can receive an email to set up your new giving through Breeze. Thank you for however you give, it is all very much appreciated! For additional questions or concerns, contact the Church Office.
Did you know you can support Trinity UMC with a tax-free transfer from your IRA? If you are age 72 (or 70½ before Jan 1, 2020) and have a Traditional, Rollover, SEP, or SIMPLE IRA, you are required by law to take Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) annually. But did you know that you can use the RMD as a way to make a tax-free transfer to a charity, including Trinity UMC? The transfer must be directly from your IRA to Trinity, and your broker can help you with this process so that you get the full tax benefit. Please notify Trinity when you authorize a transfer so that we may confirm receipt.
Another way to provide financial support to Trinity is with a gift of stock. Please consult with your broker and a tax adviser (prior to selling stocks intended to benefit Trinity) on how to handle to maximize the tax benefits. But if you do decide to give stock – please contact the church help. We can provide a form for your broker or tax adviser to facilitate the transfer.
As always, Trinity is very grateful for any gifts. It makes everything we do at Trinity possible. If all else fails - please contact Rich McKinney. Thank you again for your giving - no matter how you give!
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Sunday, June 6th
11:00 AM Worship at via Facebook Live and Trinity Website
12:00 PM Fellowship Time via Zoom
5:30 PM Youth Group in the Courtyard
Wednesday, June 9th
6:00 PM Centering Prayer via Zoom
6:30 PM Trinity’s Ringer Rehearsal
Thursday, June 10th
8:30 PM Chancel Choir Rehearsal via Zoom
Sunday, June 13th ~ Graduation Sunday
9:00 AM Outdoor Communion Worship in the Courtyard
11:00 AM Worship at via Facebook Live and Trinity Website
5:30 PM Youth Group in the Courtyard
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