Acknowledging we are not alone in our sorrow and grief gives us a connection with each other and can give us a sense of solidarity and collective strength to find ways to move forward.
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: La Califfa by Ennio Morricone
- Ring Tibetan Bowl
- Opening Hymn: #170 We Are a Gentle, Angry People
- Welcome
- Chalice Lighting #447
- Sing the Children to their Classroom
- Call to Worship #429
- Hymn: #112 Do You Hear?
- Land Acknowledgment
- Wisdom Reading
- Prayer, Candles of Joys, Sorrows & Gratitude
- Sung Prayer: Rev. Rebecca Parker
- Sermon: Ethel-May Shaw
- Reading: Hope by Lisel Mueller
- Hymn: #128 For All That is Our Life
- Offertory
- Shared Singing: Hymn #402, From You I Receive
- Invitations
- Hymn: #347 Gather the Spirit
- Benediction: #686
- Extinguishing the Chalice
- Invitation and Final Wave
- Postlude: Rondeau by Jean-Joseph Mouret