Gathering Music
Rob Laurens, vocals and guitar
Welcome and Announcements (Rev. Josh Pawelek)
Centering
Prelude
"You Are Welcome Here"
written and performed by Rob Laurens, vocals and guitar
Chalice Lighting and Opening Words
Excerpt from "A New Year"
by the Rev. Robert Walsh
Opening Hymn
#1009 "Meditation on Breathing"
by Sarah Dan Jones
Martha Larson, piano
When I breathe in, I'll breathe in peace
When I breathe out, I'll breathe out love.
Time for All Ages
Musical Interlude
Joys and Concerns
Musical Interlude
Offering
The recipients of our January community outreach offering are Moral Monday CT and Power UP CT. Moral Monday gathers voices in the struggle for freedom and justice for black and brown people. Their areas of focus, activism and social change work include police accountability, voting rights, and workers' rights. Moral Monday CT was founded by Bishop John Selders and Lady Pamela Selders. Power Up CT brings much needed visibility to the ongoing realities of racism in Manchester and surrounding communities. They currently run Empower U, an after-school program at Squire Village in Manchester. UUSE currently serves as Power Up's fiscal sponsor.
Offering Music
"From the Light of Dawn"
written and performed by Rob Laurens, vocals and guitar
Sermon
"On the Road to Positivity"
Rev. Josh Pawelek
Closing Hymn
#212 "We Are Dancing Sarah's Circle"
Words by Carole A. Etzler
Music: African American spiritual, c. 1750-1875
Martha Larson, piano
We are dancing Sarah's Circle,
We are dancing Sarah's Circle,
We are dancing Sarah's Circle,
Sister, brothers, all.
Here we seek and find our history...
We will all do our own naming...
Every round a generation...
On and on the circle's moving...
Extinguishing the Chalice
Closing Circle
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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