Gathering Music (Mary Bopp) (begins at 10:50)
Welcome and Announcements (Rev. Josh Pawelek)
Centering
Prelude
“The Beatitudes”
improvisation by Mary Bopp
Chalice Lighting and Opening Words
Excerpts from “An Open Letter to My Fellow White Christians”
by Margaret Renkl
Opening Hymn
“For a World Made Whole”
words by Josh Pawelek
music by Mary Bopp
May we be people, people of faith (hope, love)
May we be people, people of faith (hope, love)
May we be people, people of faith (hope, love)
For a world made whole,
May we be people of faith (hope, love)
Meditation
Musical Meditation (Mary Bopp)
Joys, Concerns and Introductions
Musical Meditation (Mary Bopp)
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 Wondrous Love is This?”
Traditional Southern Hymn, Arr. Mary Bopp
Sermon “Toward Redemption: Responding to Margaret Renkl.”
Closing Hymn
#1007 “There’s a River Flowin’ in My Soul”
By Rose Sanders, aka Faya Ora Rose Touré
arr. Kenny Smith
There’s a river flowin’ in my soul.
There’s a river flowin’ in my soul.
And it’s tellin’ me that I’m somebody.
There’s a river flowin’ in my soul.
There’s a river flowin’ in my heart…
There’s a river flowin’ in my mind…
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.
Postlude (Mary Bopp)
Breakout Rooms
