[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, Sunday, April 16, 2023: Earth Day Service

[Fuusm Office Assistant]

Please join us at 11 a.m. Sunday in person in the sanctuary, via Facebook Live, or on Zoom, at https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09 Meeting ID: 948 2218 3499 Passcode: fuusm2323
 
Sign-in is no longer required upon entering the sanctuary, per the FUUSM Board of Trustees. Masks are optional, but friendly. 
Order of Service   	 Earth Day Service, Sunday, April 16, 2023
East Palestine:
Pray, Reflect, and Put Faith into ACTION! 
Gathering Music	“Imagine”					     John Lennon
Welcome Song  	“Whoever you are, we welcome you”  	        Hal Walker
		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 	 “There Is a Balm in Gilead” 		                 Randall Kidder, pianist
African American spiritual
Chalice Lighting	“We Belong to the Earth” 		          Chief Noah Sealth
			#550 in Singing the Living Tradition
Opening Hymn	“For the Beauty of the Earth”  	     Music: Conrad Kocher
      #21 in Singing the Living Tradition		 Folliott Sandford Pierpoint, words
				
FUUSM Affirmation (found inside hymnal cover and on the screens)
	
Sending Song 	“The Garden Song”  	 David Mallett
		Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow
		All it takes is a rake and a hoe, and a piece of fertile ground.
		Inch by inch, row by row, someone bless these seeds I sow,
		Someone warm them from below
		Till the rain comes tumblin' down.
Collection of the Offering	
OFFERTORY  “Meditation” 	         Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann
        No.37 from Music for the Piano Volume III, Hymns, Prayers, and Rituals  
        
Reflection   	East Palestine: Pray, Reflect, and Put Faith into ACTION! 
      Ginnie McNeil, Rileigh Trembly
Closing Hymn		“Defend the Sacred”		 Champ Jaxon Band 
Benediction		
Postlude  	“For the Beauty of the Earth”   	Conrad Kocher
(Facebook Live ends)
Joys and Sorrows   (Zoom participants are invited to share, too.)
Sending Music	“We Are the World”		  Clarksville, IN, Elementary School

❀☀☂❀☀☂❀☀☂❀☀☂❀☀❀☀☂❀☀☂❀☀☂❀☀☂❀☀❀☀☂❀☀☂❀☀
     Welcome! We’re glad you’re here!
About our Presenters 
Ginnie McNeil describes herself as a rabid tree-hugger from Belington (middle of nowhere), WV. She represents FUUSM’s Green Sanctuary Committee on the FaCT (Faith Communities Together)-Ohio Board of Directors and is a planning member for public programming with UUJustice Ohio. 
Rileigh Trembly is an artist and writer and lives with her grandparents and four cats in Lower Salem.
➢ Owen Cejka and Deborah Lauer will provide childcare during the service. 
➢ We are grateful to our childcare staff; our pianist, Randall Kidder; today’s presenters, Ginnie McNeil and Rileigh Trembly, and worship associate Rebecca Phillips; our tech crew, Mike Bailey and Ralph Olander; our coffee hour volunteers; today’s host, Nina Redd, and greeters, Megan Krivchenia and Judy Segall; and our minister, Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker. 
➢ If you would like to learn more about membership or participation in FUUSM congregational life, please speak to today’s host during Coffee Hour.
Announcements
Today
* Coffee Hour! Please join us downstairs in the social hall. Barb Kidd and
Mike Lang will be your servers today.
* 12:30 p.m., Green Sanctuary Committee meeting, RE parlor and Zoom.
* 3–5 p.m., Cody J. Henderhan Celebration of Life.
* 7 p.m., Buildings and Grounds Committee meeting via Zoom.

Tuesday, April 18, 3:30-6:30 p.m., Girl Scout troop meets in social hall.
Wednesday, April 19
* Noon, meditation via Zoom.
* 6:30 p.m., Men’s Group, FUUSM social hall.

Thursday, April 20: Confluence content due.
* 7 p.m. Green Sanctuary public film screening and discussion: 
	Current Revolution, social hall. Please come!

Friday, April 21
* 9:30 a.m., Membership Committee meeting, RE parlor.

Saturday, April 22 Earth Day
* 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Earth Day Marietta, Armory, Front Street.

Sunday, April 23
* 9:30 a.m., Today’s Issues discussion, RE parlor; Choir practice, sanctuary.
* 11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary, followed by Annual Meeting!
* 11 a.m. MOV Friends (Quakers) meeting, RE parlor.
* Coffee Hour! Social hall. 

aMAYzing Month of Art needs volunteers!
See Roger Kalter to sign up to help with the aMAYzing Month of Art.

FUUSM’s Annual Meeting will be next Sunday, April 23. 

Marietta’s Warming House needs volunteers. Beth Lepore to provide a lunch. 
 
FUUSM office hours: Mon.,Tu., Th., Fri. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (740) 373-1238, fuusm at suddenlinkmail.com or fuusm.office at gmail.com. 
Rev. Hawbaker is generally in the office Mon., Wed., and Friday, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. Appointments available by text or phone at (937) 470-4151, or via email to revkatgreen at gmail.com.


Dawn Hewitt
Office assistant
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta

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