Gathering Music (Mary Bopp) (Begins at 10:50)
Welcome and Announcements
Centering
Prelude
Ashokan Farewell
by Jay Ungar
Performed by Mary Bopp
Chalice Lighting & Opening Words
Introduction to the Service
Opening Hymn
“Here We Have Gathered”
#360 in Singing the Living Tradition
Words by Alicia S. Carpenter
Music by Genevan Psalter, 1543
Led by Martha Larson
Here we have gathered, gathered side by side;
circle of kinship, come and step inside!
May all who seek here find a kindly word;
may all who speak here feel they have been heard.
Sing now together this, our hearts’ own song.
Here we have gathered, called to celebrate
days of our lifetime, matters small and great:
we of all ages, women, children, men,
infants and sages, sharing what we can.
Sing now together this, our hearts’ own song.
Life has its battles, sorrows, and regret:
but in the shadows, let us not forget:
we who now gather know each other’s pain;
kindness can heal us: as we give, we gain.
Sing now in friendship this, our hearts’ own song.
Joys and Concerns
Musical Response (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.
Offertory Music
“Tenting on the Old Campground”
Written by Walter Kittredge, 1863
Performed by Alan Ayers, Martha Larson
First Speaker (Martha Larson)
Musical Response (Mary Bopp)
Second Speaker (Sande Hartdagen)
Sharing Remembrances
Musical Response
Responsive Reading
“We Remember Them”
#720 in Singing the Living Tradition
by Roland B. Gittelsohn [Adapted]
In the rising of the sun and in its going down, we remember them.
In the blowing of the wind and in the chill of winter, we remember them.
In the opening of the buds and in the rebirth of spring, we remember them.
In the blueness of the skies and in the warmth of summer, we remember them.
In the rustling of the leaves and in the beauty of autumn, we remember them.
In the beginning of the year and when it ends, we remember them.
When we are weary and in need of strength, we remember them.
When we are lost and sick at heart, we remember them.
When we have joys we yearn to share, we remember them.
So long as we live, they too shall live, for they are now a part of us, as we remember them.
Closing Hymn
“This Is My Song”
#159 in Singing the Living Tradition
Words by Lloyd Stone
Music by Jean Sibelius
Led by Martha Larson
This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
but other hearts in other lands are beating
with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
a song of peace for their land and for mine.
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)
Virtual Coffee Hour with Breakout Rooms
