[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, September 4, 2022

Fri Sep 2 11:02:59 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.

Please join us LIVE for our service at 11 a.m. Sunday, September 4, 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, September 4, 2022

Note: Both Washington County, Ohio, and Wood County, West Virginia, were areas of high COVID transmission as of September 1, according to the CDC website. During such times, “We wear masks,” according to the FUUSM Board of Trustees.

Labor Day: Our Relationship With Our Work

“To worship is to work with dedication and with skill; it is to pause from work and listen to a strain of music.”  —Jacob Trapp

Call to Worship                                                          Martha McGovern, worship leader

Welcome Song   “Whoever You Are, We Welcome You”                Hal Walker, songwriter.

               Whoever you are, we welcome you.

            Wherever you come from, we welcome you.

            Whomever you love, we welcome you.

Welcome                               

Prelude          “All Whose Boast It Is”                             Russell Lowell, words; Jacob Hintze, music;

Hymn 150 in Singing the Living Tradition                                                   J.S. Bach, harmony;

                                                                                                          Randall Kidder, pianist.

Chalice Lighting                                                                                        Words from Passover Haggadah

               May the light we now kindle inspire us to use our powers to heal and not to harm, to help and not to hinder, to bless and not to curse, to serve you, Spirit of freedom.

Opening Hymn 128   “For All That Is Our Life”                                     Bruce Findlow, words;

in Singing the Living Tradition                                              Patrick L. Rickey, music.

Time for All Ages     A Conversation:  What is the difference between play and work?

Sending Song          “Go Now in Peace”                                                  Natalie Sleeth, songwriter.

            Go now in peace, go now in peace.

            May the spirit of love surround you

            Everywhere, everywhere, you may go.

Collection of Offerings

Offertory   “We Will Not Stop Singing”                                                   Chapin Singers, songwriters;

                                                                                                           performed by the First Unitarian Church of 

                                                                                                                    Brooklyn, Adam Podd, music director.

Reflection                  Our Relationship With Our Work                       Martha McGovern

Closing Hymn 109   “As We Come Marching, Marching”                James Oppenheim, words; 

in Singing the Living Tradition                                                            Caroline Kohlsaat, music.

Benediction

Postlude                    “E-Flat Blues”                                        Thomas "Fats" Waller, composer;

                                                                                                         Randall Kidder, pianist.

Announcements

Joys & Sorrows

Going Forth Music

After the service, please join us in the social hall for coffee hour! 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Monday, Sept. 5, Labor Day. FUUSM office closed. 

Wednesday, Sept. 7, noon, Meditation via Zoom. Meeting ID ID: 906 204 9940 Passcode: OMWed12

Sunday, Sept. 11

·        9:30 a.m., Today’s Issues, RE building parlor and on Zoom: 

·        9:30 a.m., sanctuary: Choir practice.

·        11 a.m. Worship Service in the FUUSM sanctuary: Water Communion, with reflections on Braiding Sweetgrass. Everyone is invited to bring a small sample of water from a source significant to you, to pour into a common vessel to acknowledge how Water is Life, and we flow together as FUUSM.

·        12:30 p.m., Social Justice Sunday, panel discussion on water protection near and far: FUUSM's Green Sanctuary Committee is pleased to team up with the Social Justice Committee for this forum. Andrew Clovis will moderate the panel of speakers: Scott Russell (via Zoom) of the Stop Line 3 Team of the Sierra Club's North Star Chapter; Giulia Mannarino, a local climate activist, a member of  Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action, and a "fracking refugee"; and Callie Lyons, a local podcaster and author of  Stain-Resistant, Nonstick, Waterproof, and Lethal: the Hidden Dangers of C8. A Q&A roundtable with the speakers will follow the presentations.

Sunday, Sept. 18, noon: Fall congregational meeting immediately following the service. 

FUUSM office hours: 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. 

            Closed on Labor Day. 
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