Easter and Earth Day: Multigenerational Service

The Sunday we will joyously celebrate Easter and Earth Day in a service of renewal.

 

  • Ring Bell
  • Prelude: “Aquarium” and “The Swan” by Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Ring Tibetan Bowl
  • Centering Music: Excerpt from Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland
  • Song Leader Guest: Katie Sontag
  • Welcome
  • Chalice Lighting: Christine Slocum
  • Land Acknowledgment 
  • Wisdom Tale: Be a Good Ancestor
  • Hymn:  #62, When the Daffodils Arrive
  • Call to Worship: Rev. Dr. Elizabeth M. Strong
  • Prayer, Candles of Joys, Sorrows & Gratitude
  • Sung Prayer: Rev. Rebecca Parker
  • Easter Reading: We Keep Rising in Love, Rev. Molly Housh Gordon
  • Musical Interlude (Choir): For the Beauty of the Earth by John Rutter
  • Message for All Ages: “Earthrise”
  • Meditation / Climate Ribbons
  • Offertory
  • Shared Singing: Hymn #402, From You I Receive
  • Invitations
  • Song Guest: Katie Sontag
  • Benediction:  Rev. Lisa Doege
  • Extinguishing the Chalice 
  • Invitation and Final Wave
  • Postlude: Excerpt from Improvisation on “Eisenach” by Alec Rowley