[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, August 21, 2022

Fri Aug 19 10:17:39 CDT 2022

First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta

Our Mission: to nurture a diverse community, devoted to spiritual growth and freedom of thought for the benefit of all.

Note: Both Washington County, Ohio, and Wood County, West Virginia, were areas of high COVID transmission as of August 18, according to the CDC. During such times, “We wear masks,” according to the FUUSM Board of Trustees. 

Please join us LIVE for our service at 11 a.m. Sunday, August 14, 2022, at 232 Third St., Marietta, Ohio, Facebook (facebook.com/FUUSM), or via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09
Meeting ID: 948 2218 3499               Passcode: fuusm2323

Order of Service

Sunday, August 21, 2022

The Caring Committee: Our Caring Circle

Cathy Rees, Caring Committee chair

Krissy Kearns, guest speaker

Gathering Music  Ashokan Farewell, Jay Ungar, composer; Randall Kidder, pianist.

Welcome Song  Whoever You Are, We Welcome You, Hal Walker, words and music.

    Whoever you are, we welcome you.

    Wherever you come from, we welcome you.

    Whomever you love, we welcome you.

Welcome  Rebecca Phillips, worship associate

Acknowledging Native Lands

Prelude  Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,Hymn #126 in Singing the Living Tradition, Robert Robertson and Eugene B. Navias, words; John Wyeth, music; Randall Kidder, pianist.

Chalice Lighting  Come into the Circle, Reading  #418 in Singing the Living Tradition; adapted from Israel Zangwill.   

FUUSM Affirmation    (Found in the front of the hymnal and on the screens)

Time for All Ages

Sending Song  Go Now in Peace, Natalie Sleeth, words and music.

    Go now in peace, go now in peace.

    May the spirit of love surround you

    Everywhere, everywhere you may go.

Reflection 1  Our Caring Circle, Cathy Rees

Offertory  There Is a Balm in Gilead, Hymn #1045 in Singing the Journey; African-American spiritual from the slavery period of the United States; Randall Kidder, pianist.

Note: Slavery in America is considered to have begun in 1619 when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 enslaved Africans seized from the Portuguese slave ship Sao Jao Bautista to Point Comfort, Virginia, near Jamestown. It ostensibly ended after the end of the Civil War in 1865. The spiritual was first published in 1919 by Harry Thacker Burleigh. It struck me as hyperbolically ironic that the first slaves were sold and lived in a settlement named Point Comfort. Are you kidding?! —R.K.

Collection of Offering

Reflection 2  Comfort Care in a Caring Community, Krissy Kearns

Recorded music  Oh, Death, Zachary Coleman, Philip Pendergas, and Benjamin Hutcherson, songwriters; Ralph Stanley, performer.   

Benediction To Live in This World, Mary Oliver, poet.

Postlude  Love Will Guide Us, Hymn #131 in Singing the Living Tradition; traditional music; Sally Rogers, words; Randall Kidder, pianist

Announcements

Joys and Sorrows

Sending Song  Lean on Me, Bill Withers, words, music, performer;

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Please join us for coffee hour in the social hall after the service!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Note: Both Washington County, Ohio, and Wood County, West Virginia, were areas of high COVID transmission as of August 18, according to the CDC. During such times, “We wear masks,” according to the FUUSM Board of Trustees.

Today

  a.. Service, 11 a.m.: The Caring Committee: Our Caring Circle, sanctuary and Zoom.
  b.. Coffee hour!  Immediately following service, social hall.
  c.. Green Sanctuary, 12:30 p.m., RE building parlor and Zoom.
Monday, Aug. 21, Be Kind to Humankind week begins.

Wednesday, Aug. 24, noon, Meditation via Zoom.

Sunday, Aug. 28

·        11 a.m. UU Worship Service in the FUUSM Sanctuary: Art, an Instrument for Building Community. Guest Speaker – Geoff Schenkel.    

·        11 a.m. Quaker Meeting for Worship in the RE Building Parlor.

·        1–3 p.m., First Daughter and the Black Snake, free screening, FUUSM social hall. Winona LaDuke believes Big Oil is the black snake predicted in Indigenous prophecy to bring earth’s destruction. When proposed new oil pipelines threaten sacred wild rice lakes, LaDuke dreams of organizing a spiritual ride, riding her horse against the current of oil, “because a horse can kill a snake.” Please join the Green Sanctuary Committee’s Honoring Indigenous People team for this documentary film as we continue to learn about the courageous Indigenous People who are Water and Land Protectors. 

Note: Rev. Kat is on vacation through September 1. During this time, please contact the FUUSM office, a member of the Board of Trustees, or the Committee on Ministries for assistance, as appropriate. 

FUUSM office hours: 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Email fuusm at suddenlinkmail.com, phone (740)373-1238.

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