[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, January 22, 2023: Lunar New Year

[First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta]

Order of Service, Sunday, January 22, 2023:   Lunar New Year: The Year of the Rabbit



Please join us at 11 a.m. Sunday live in the sanctuary, via Facebook Live, or on Zoom, at https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09 Meeting ID: 948 2218 3499 Passcode: fuusm2323



COVID Guidelines: Masks are optional—but friendly! Both Washington County, Ohio, and Wood County, West Virginia, 
were areas of medium COVID transmission as of January 20, 2023, according to the CDC. We ask that you continue 
to sign in upon entering the sanctuary, and to notify the FUUSM Office if you test positive in the next few days 
so we can alert other attendees.



Lunar New Year: The Year of the Rabbit



30 Days of Love: “True democracy is both a spiritual and political practice of honoring that interconnectedness.”  —Rev. Ashley Horan



Processional             Lunar New Year Blessing     

Feel free to join in the processional to ring in blessings for this new year.

Welcome                                                                                Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker

Acknowledging Native Lands       “The Rabbit Dance”                    Mohawk tale

                                            From Keepers of the Animals, by Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac



Chalice Lighting 

FUUSM Affirmation            

Special Music           “The Oneness of Everything”         Jim Scott, words and music
                                            FUUSM Choir, Martha Webster, director; Randall Kidder, pianist

Time for All Ages      A Dragon Meditation

Sending Song  #311           “Let It Be a Dance”           Ric Masten, words and music

Kids can go downstairs for activities.       



Collection of Offering

Offertory        Music for the Piano Volume I:  Asian Songs and Rhythms
First Series No.5, “Chant d' Orient” (“Oriental Song”) 

       Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann, composers; Randall Kidder, pianist 



Reflection      Measuring Time                                             Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker 



Closing Hymn #118           “This Little Light of Mine”      African American spiritual   



Postlude        Twenty Etudes for the Piano;  Etude No. 9     Philip Glass, composer

                                                                                               Randall Kidder, pianist

Spoken Announcements



Benediction              “Peace, Salaam, Shalom”                         Emma’s Revolution

Facebook Live ends

Joys & Sorrows         (Zoom participants are invited to share, too.)      

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Please join us downstairs in the social hall for coffee and conversation.

Childcare is available during the service, with Owen Cejka and Lela Erb attending. 

We are grateful to our tech crew, Mike Bailey and Ralph Olander; childcare staff; 
coffee hour volunteers Elaine Barr, Jonathan Brier, Cathy Rees, and Judy Segall; 
and to today’s host, Elaine Barr, and greeter, Jonathan Brier, for their support of our Sunday services.

If you would like to learn more about membership or participation in FUUSM congregational life, 
please speak to our host Elaine or to Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker.




Announcements

Today

  a.. 9:30 a.m., Today’s Issues discussion, RE building parlor and via Zoom 
  b.. 9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary 
  c.. 11 a.m., Sunday Service (see above) 
  d.. Coffee hour! 
  e.. 12:30 p.m., Book discussion group: Mistakes and Miracles: Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism, 
  by Nancy Palmer Jones and Karin Lin, social hall. 


Monday, January 23

·       7 p.m., Finance Committee meeting via Zoom.



Wednesday, January 25

·       Noon, Meditation via Zoom.



Thursday, January 26

·       7 p.m., Buildings and Grounds Committee meeting via Zoom.



Friday, January 27

·       9:30 a.m., Membership Committee meeting, RE building parlor.

·       11:30 a.m., Chalice Lighters Committee meeting, RE building parlor.



Sunday, January 29: Charter Sunday

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

·       9:30 a.m., Today’s Issues discussion, RE building parlor.

·       11:30 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary, A Work in Progress, Rev. Hawbaker.

·       Coffee hour! Volunteers: Joan Coffey, Barb Kidd, and Annie Warmke.



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, Ohio
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