Gathering Music (Mary Bopp) (begins at 9:50)
Welcome and Announcements (Beth Hankins, Sunday Service Committee member)
Prelude
“Why Are We Here”
composed and sung by Eileen Driscoll
Chalice Lighting (words by Beth Hankins)
Opening Hymn
“Enter, Rejoice, and Come In”
by Louise Ruspini
#361 in Singing the Living Tradition
led by Sandy Johnson
Enter, rejoice, and come in.
Enter, rejoice, and come in.
Today will be a joyful day;
Enter, rejoice, and come in.
Open your ears to the song…
Open your hearts ev’ryone…
Don’t be afraid of some change…
Enter, rejoice, and come in…
Opening Reading
“To Be of Use”
by Marge Piercy
ready by Kate Kimmerle
Joys and Concerns
Offering
The recipients of our May community outreach offering are MARC, Inc. and MARCH, Inc.
Marc, Inc. provides advocacy, employment, residential, respite, and retirement services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. March, Inc. provides residential programs and supportive living programs to people with intellectual and other developmental disabilities.
Offering Music
“What Does the World Require of You?”
by Jim Strathdee, arr. Pawel Jura
sung by UUS:E Choir
Reflections “Lighting the Flame of Spiritual Leadership”
- Centering in Gifts (Beth Hankins)
- Covenanting (Stan McMillen)
- Binding to tradition (Beth Hankins)
- Meditation on Doing Our Inner Work (Lynn Dove)
- Faithful Risking (Rhona Cohen)
Closing Hymn
“My Life Flows On in Endless Song”
#108 in Singing the Living Tradition
led by Sandy Johnson
My life flows on in endless song above earth’s lamentation.
I hear the real though far-off hymn that hails a new creation.
Through all the tumult and the strife I hear the music ringing.
It sounds an echo in my soul. How can I keep from singing!
What though the tempest ‘round me roars, I know the truth, it liveth.
What though the darkness ‘round me close, songs in the night it giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm while to that rock I’m clinging.
Since love prevails in heav’n and earth, how can I keep from singing!
When tyrants tremble as they hear the bells of freedom ringing,
when friends rejoice both far and near, how can I keep from singing!
To prison cell and dungeon vile our thoughts to them are winging;
when friends by shame are undefiled, how can I keep from singing!
Extinguishing the Chalice
Closing Words
May faith in the spirit of life
And hope for the community of earth
And love of the light in each other
Be ours now and in all the days to come.
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