Congregants – in person or joining via Zoom – are all invited to bring bread that represents some part of your ancestry. Pumpernickel, Chapati, Tortillas, Soda Bread, Fry Bread, Shokupan, Wonder Bread – whatever has meaning for you. We will use part of your bread in a ritual and save the rest for the soup lunch following the service. This Sunday we are celebrating diversity and being grateful for our differences.
Welcome!
We are always delighted to welcome guests! If this is your first time visiting a Unitarian Universalist church or our congregation, here’s some idea of what to expect.
Order of Service
- Prelude: Après la pluie by André Gagnon, Linli Wang, piano
- Ring Tibetan Bowl
- Centering Music: Return to Love by Kevin Kern, Linli Wang, piano
- Opening Hymn: #361, Enter, Rejoice and Come In
- Welcome
- Chalice Lighting: Dawn Skjei Cooley
- Wisdom Tale: It Takes Patience, Idan Ravin, (writer) Alison Mutton (illustrator), Idan Ravin (publisher). Tanya Webster (reader)
- Call to Worship: Nick Wilbourn
- Hymn: #203, All Creatures of the Earth and Sky
- Land Acknowledgment
- Wisdom Reading: Margaret Stevens
- Prayer, Candles of Joys, Sorrows & Gratitude
- Sung Prayer: Rev. Rebecca Parker
- Sermon: “Breaking Bread Together” Rev. Elizabeth Sollie and the Congregation
- Hymn: #355, We Lift Our Hearts in Thanks
- Offertory
- Shared Singing: Hymn #402, From You I Receive
- Invitations
- Hymn: #1010, We Give Thanks
- Benediction: Andre Dubus
- Extinguishing the Chalice
- Invitation and Final Wave
- Postlude: Short Postlude No. 4 by W. Wolstenholme, Linli Wang, piano