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Rev. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. Stacey Edwards-Dunn, Executive Minister
Rev. Barbara A. Heard, Associate Pastor
Rev. Rochelle Michael, Associate Pastor
Rev. Linda Mootry-Dodd, Associate Pastor
Rev. Tiffany Trent, Associate Pastor
Rev. Ramah E. Wright, Associate Pastor
Dr. Julia Speller, Director, Christian Education
Rev. Michael D. Jacobs, Minister to Youth and Children
Deacon Shirley Bims-Ellis, Director, Center for African Biblical Studies
Daryl J. Walker, Minister of Worship and Arts
Bryan Johnson, Executive Director of Sacred Music
Melody B. Morgan, Administrative Assistant
“There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served.”
1 Corinthians 12:5 (TEV)
Table of Contents
Order of Worship .............................................................................................................................................2
Hymn of Praise ((7:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m.) “Glory, Glory, Hallelujah" .................................................................3
Calendar ..........................................................................................................................................................7
Announcements ..............................................................................................................................................9
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Arsts-In-Residence "Making Art Accessible"/Dancing with the Pastors ..............................................14
Audio Devices:
In an effort to keep the worship experience sacred, please return all listening devices immediately follow-
ing the benedicon. An audio technician is available in the sound room 15 minutes aer each service for
return of your device.
Thank you for your cooperaon!
Invocaon
Ministry of Music (6:00 p.m.) ...................................................................................................... “Done Made My Vow”
Parish Concerns
Baby Dedicaon
Visitor Recognion
Passing of the Peace
The Pastor’s Word
The Service of Giving
Offertory Sentences
Tithes and Offerings
Scholarship
Altar Call (7:30 a.m.) ............................................................................................................. “He Touched Me”
Altar Call (11:00 a.m.) ............................................................................................................ “I Love The Lord”
Sermon (7:30 a.m.) .................................................................................................... “The Weight of Waing”
Sermon (11:00 a.m., 6:00 p.m.).........................................................................Rev. Courtney Clayton Jenkins
Hymn of Invitaon (7:30 a.m.) ......................................................................................"I Choose To Worship"
Hymn of Invitaon (11:00 a.m., 6:00 p.m.) ..................................................................... "I Give Myself Away"
Benedicon (11:00 a.m.) ........................................................................................................... "I’m Available”
[Once the sermon has begun, parishioners may not enter or re-enter the first floor sanctuary.]
HYMN OF PRAISE
songs is unknown.”
The Negro spiritual represented the slaves’
faith songs and the brutality and injusces they
experienced in America. Oenmes, slaves
used the words in spirituals as code language to
communicate with one another; to let each other
know when and where a slave was planning to
escape the inhumanity of slavery, and seek freedom
on the Underground Railroad.
10 17
On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies:
the synagogues, 11and a woman was there who had "Look over the trouble we're in and call for help.
been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was Send for some singers who can help us mourn
bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12When our loss.
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Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to Tell them to hurry –
her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” to help us express our loss and lament,
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Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she Help us get our tears flowing,
straightened up and praised God. make tearful music of our crying.
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Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Listen to it!
Listen to that torrent of tears out of Zion:
UNISON SCRIPTURES
Sabbath, the synagogue ruler said to the people,
“There are six days for work. So come and be healed 'We're a ruined people,
on those days, not on the Sabbath.” we're a shamed people!
15
We've been driven from our homes
The Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! and must leave our land!"
Doesn’t each of you on the Sabbath une his ox
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or donkey from the stall and lead it out to give it Mourning women! Oh, listen to God's Message!
water? 16Then should not this woman, a daughter of Open your ears. Take in what he says.
Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen Teach your daughters songs for the dead
long years, be set free on the Sabbath day from what and your friends the songs of heartbreak.
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bound her?” Death has climbed in through the window,
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broken into our bedrooms.
When he said this, all his opponents were
Children on the playgrounds drop dead,
humiliated, but the people were delighted with all
and young men and women collapse at their
the wonderful things he was doing.
games.
SERMON NOTES
Malcolm X Birthday -
5/19 • CHURCH CLOSED 5/22 • Artists-in-Residence/Mark Bradford
Today
400 W. 95th Street 1:30 p.m. • Dinner - FH
Drug and Alcohol Recovery Support
7:30 a.m. • Worship Service - SA 2:00 p.m. • - 203
9:30 a.m. • Bible Teaching Moment - SA 2:30 p.m. • Women's Chorus Concert - SA
• Breakfast - FH 6:00 p.m. • Worship Service - SA
11:00 a.m. • Worship Service - SA
Monday 5/16
400 W. 95th Street
CALENDAR
• Women's Chorus Rehearsal - SA
TUCC Village Center
12:00 p.m. • Immabasi Diabetes Support - FH 1947 West 95th Street
6:00 p.m. • Band Rehearsal - SA 6:30 p.m. • Amani Care Corner Volunteers - W301
6:15 p.m. • Mwanabaraka Rehearsal - A 7:00 p.m. • Adult Ushers Officers Meeting - W305
Tuesday 5/17
Sanctuary Choir Steering Committee
400 W. 95th Street 7:00 p.m. • - BR
CALENDAR
400 W. 95th Street 2:00 p.m.. • Young Adult Ushers - FH
American Roots Music, Story Telling
7:00 a.m. • Food Share - A/FH 2:30 p.m. • - SA
7:30 a.m. • Yoga Exercises - Narthex II 2:30 p.m. • Women's Guild - 203
8:00 a.m. • Ministers-in-Training - WC 3:00 p.m. • Music Department Orientation - 116
9:00 a.m. • Alabama Relief Item Assembly - FH • Pre-Marital Counseling - 202
• Saturday Bible School Malcolm X - SA 3:30 p.m. • 20 Something Movie - WC
11:00 a.m. • Little Warriors Rehearsal - WC . • Adult Ushers - FH
12:00 p.m. • Wedding Seminar - 207 4:00 p.m. • Adult Ushers Training - SA
12:30 p.m. • Math Tutorial Wrap-Up - 203 5:00 p.m. • Deacons-in-Training Phase II - 202
TUCC Village Center
• Walaika Rehearsal - WC 1947 West 95th Street
• Women's Drill Team - FH 9:00 a.m. • Legal Clinic - Legal Clinic Room
Justice Watch Team (Next Movement)
1:00 p.m. • Youth Drill Team Prayer Meeting - 202 11:00 a.m. • - W302
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Bring Bible, RSVP, Member Services, 773-962- • FIRST FRIDAYS WORSHIP SERVICE, Friday,
5650 June 3, 7:00 p.m.
• “WE GOT NEXT” Ministry classes, Mondays, • MARRIED COUPLES WORSHIP SERVICE
June 13, July 18, August 8, September 12, Friday, June 17, 7:00 p.m., Sanctuary, Guest
October 3 and November 7, 7:00 p.m., Room 207 Preacher: Rev. Courtney Clayton Jenkins, Pastor,
(Monday, August 8 and Tuesday, September 12, Euclid Avenue Congregaonal Church, UCC,
Room 203)
Cleveland, Ohio
• BIBLE CLASS REGISTRATION BEGINS • FATHER’S DAY Sunday, June 19, 11:00 a.m.
TODAY! Study to show thyself approved! Join worship service, Father and Son Tag Team,
us for Bible classes offered seven days a week
Rev. Os Moss, Jr. and Pastor Os Moss III
and online! Bible Class registraon takes place
following all worship services through Sunday, • FAMILY CAREGIVER WORKSHOP 101,
May 29, We welcome a new Bible study Sunday, June 26, 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
facilitator, Sister Alma McClendon, who will • ADOPTION/FOSTER CARE FAIR, Sunday,
facilitate a new class entled, “Our Ancestry: June 26, following the 7:30 a.m. and 11:00
Finding Our Way Home,” Sign up today and worship services
purchase your class materials in the Akiba
Bookstore
ANNOUNCEMENTS
during the L.O.V.E. Worship Service, Please submit
volumes on Bible study, African American history photos and/or videos of MCM events via email,
and culture, the library is located on the 2nd floor, marriedcouples@trinitychicago.org, Informaon,
Our hours are Monday-Tuesday-Thursday, 6:00 Call 773-966-1500, Mailbox 2343
p.m. – 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. – 7:00
p.m. and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. • MAY IS LUPUS AWARENESS MONTH
Trinity UCC Lupus Support Ministry meets every
• CHURCH CLOSINGS Thursday, May 19 3rd Saturday, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Contact
(Malcolm X Birthday), Monday, May 30 (Memorial us, 773-966-1500, Mailbox 2342 or lupus@
Day Observed), Thursday, June 16 (Staff In- trinitychicago.org, Informaon on Lupus, visit
Service) www.lupus.org
• DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MINISTRY is • MEMBERSHIP SERVICES Have you moved?
dedicated to ending the silent killer in our Any children le the nest? New employment or
community, Domesc Violence is not just a newly married? Forgot your giving number? Call
woman's problem, it is a COMMUNITY problem. Membership Services, 773-966-1556 or 966-1553
Please come join us in our fight for survivors, call
773-966-1500, Mailbox 2317 or contact Tennille • MEN’S FELLOWSHIP Annual Fishing Event,
Power at 773-406-4193 Friday, June 24 – Sunday, June 26, Great Oaks
Camp, For men and boys or fathers and sons,
• EMMAUS ROAD GRIEF SUPPORT meeng, Register following worship services or online,
“Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” Thursday, May 26, Informaon, Call Mickey Henderson, 773-966-
7:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m., Wright Chapel, Informaon, 1500, Mailbox 2348 or email MensFellowship@
Call 773-966-1500, Mailbox 2320 or email trinitychicago.org
EmmausRoad@trinitychicago.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS
• TRINITY UCC LEGAL CLINIC providing S. Cicero, Also looking for Corpus Chris school
direct legal advice, mediaon services and alumni, Tickets and informaon, Contact Dolores
representaon to the congregaon and Pidgeon, 708-957-2724
community, Clinic is open 1st and 3rd Saturdays, • IN THE PAINT Basketball iy biddy basketball
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., and 2nd Thursdays, 6:00 league for 5-8 year olds, Tryouts and registraon,
p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Village Center, No appointment Saturday, June 4, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m., Morgan
necessary, Also, we are always in need of legal Park Bapst Church, 11024 S. Bell, Informaon,
professionals (especially aorneys) interested Call 312-283-4011 or visit www.itphoops.com
in volunteering for the Legal Clinic and/or
parcipang in our legal referral directory, To • JOY TO BE FIT Gospel Aerobics program begins
contact us call 773-966-1500, Mailbox 2339 or Monday, May 16 – July 7, Chicagoland Chrisan
send e-mail to Legal@trinitychicago.org Center Embassy, 929 E. 103rd St., Registraon
required and available on-site, Informaon, Call
COMMUNITY EVENTS Stephanie Jackson-Rowe, 312-560-5441
• AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY “Music Saved • MASONS AND ORDER OF THE EASTERN
MY Life,” featuring MIKE-E and the AfroFlow Tour, STARS invited to aend worship service at Trinity,
focusing on raising cancer awareness by educang Sunday, May 22, 11:00 a.m., Are, Masons-Black
students and families on benefits of proper suits, OES-White dresses, No regalia
nutrion and more, Informaon, visit www. • NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 6th Annual
MusicSavedMyLifeACS.com Black Alumni Associaon 5k Race for Diversity and
• AVALON COMMUNITY TENNIS Campus Tour, Saturday, May 21, Norris University
ASSOCIATION 14-week instrucon and drill
ANNOUNCEMENTS
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spirituals, the Blues and Gospel.
WE GOT NEXT : Celebrang the joys and sacrifices of the past and securing the future of
our Next generaon to take our community to the Next level.
Levicus 25:1 - 13 (NIV), Luke 4:18 - 19 (KJV)
Dare
D to Take Charge, by Judge Glenda Hatche
May the road rise to meet you, Rev. Os Moss III
May the wind be at your back. Senior Pastor
Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.
May the sunlight of Jesus Christ grace your cheek,
Pastor Emeritus
And may rain gently fall upon your field.
400 West 95th Street
May God keep you in the hollow
Chicago, Illinois 60628 - 1120
of God’s Hand unl we meet again.
Telephone (773) 962-5650
Go in peace.
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-Author Unknown