Sunday Morning Worship

Worship at Trinity UCC is always engaging, relevant, spiritual, and generally, fun!  Our service is a mostly contemporary, blended worship with a worship band (piano/guitar/bass/drums) and praise choir. We also have the traditional elements of a hymn, and a sung doxology. All the elements of worship blend together, reflecting the theme of that particular day. We celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion the first Sunday of each month as well as other times where it is theologically, particularly appropriate. Should you need it, hearing assistance is available—just ask the greeter.

Our typical Sunday service moves as follows:

Entering In

Gathering Music

Greetings & Announcements

Call to Worship   (involving both the congregation and worship leader/liturgist for the day)

Opening Musical Worship   (typically 3 contemporary songs)

Prayer Time   (sharing of Hallelujahs and Hurts, sung call to prayer, pastoral prayer)

Identity/Mission Moment    (highlighting something about our people, ministries, and mission  activity)

Listening, Learning, Loving

Hymn of Illumination

Scripture Readings   (we typically follow the Common Lectionary, but sometimes have special topics or series)

Message/Sermon

Offering/Offertory/Doxology/Prayer of Dedication

Lord’s Prayer

Sending Forth

Closing Musical Worship   (typically 1 upbeat contemporary song)

Benediction

Exit Music

At Trinity, our worship, is central to our life as a church and as so reflects who we are: authentic, casual, emotional, and God-focused. Therefore, it is rarely “predictable” beyond a basic pattern we generally follow. You never know what might happen, but we welcome the interchange of humanity and Spirit that never ceases to amaze us!

We love to highlight the Holy Days and Christian seasons and therefore worship during Advent (4 weeks leading up to Christmas & Epiphany) and Lent (6 weeks of introspection prior to Holy Week and Easter), or other special Sundays (like Pentecost, All Saints Day, World Communion Sunday, etc)  sometimes look different from our ordinary worship experiences. We love to become more liturgical during those times and often have a processional at the beginning of worship or special elements like special prayers/liturgies and/or candle lighting traditions, etc.

In any case, we never require a particular dress-code—we are truly a “come as you are” church!!!! We believe, firmly, that God sees our hearts just as easily through t-shirts and jeans  as through suit coats and dresses. So bring your heart for God, your voice for worship, and your hands for clapping and hugging and join us, every Sunday at 10:30am.