[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, March 19, 2023: Lives in Balance

Fri Mar 17 11:38:11 CDT 2023

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

COVID Guidelines: Masks are optional—but friendly. 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.

Order of Service                                                             Sunday, March 19, 2023

Lives In Balance

Gathering Music (recorded)   “We are Dancing in a Circle”      Jennifer Armstrong

When spring rolls around and we work the fertile ground, 

Our hands plant the seeds of our dreams in the earth.

Seed time, dream time, everything is new, 

We’re young and green and growing when planting’s what we do.

CHORUS:  We are dancing, we are dancing, 

we are dancing in the circle of time without end.

Welcome Song         “Earth, My Body”                                            source unknown

Earth, my body; water, my blood; 

Air, my breath; and fire, my spirit.

Welcome                                                              Rebecca Phillips, worship associate

Acknowledging Native Lands

“Enjoy the land, but own it not. Through want of enterprise and faith men (people) 

are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.   

                                                                                      “Spring,” H.D. Thoreau, in Walden

Prelude     Invention No.VI in E Major                                         Johann Sebastian Bach

Chalice Lighting      “A Flame to Light Our Path”                                     Debra Burrell

Opening Hymn #63            “Spring Has Now Unwrapped the Flowers” 

words: Piae Cantiones; music: Thomas Benjamin

Meditation                 Lotus Flower

Time for All Ages                 Balance

Sending Chant         “Reach Out Your Hand”           

Reach out your hand, joy is passing by, (3x)

            Singing glory hallelujah! Joy is passing by.

   “Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand 

   until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.”      Simone Weil

Offertory        “We Are Dancing Sarah's Circle”                             words: Carole A. Etzler

               Hymn #212 in Singing the Living Tradition                            music: African American spiritual

Reflection                  Lives in Balance                                 Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker 

Closing Hymn #163  “For the Earth Forever Turning”   words and music: Kim Oler

            arranged by Nick Page and Jim Scott

Closing Words  “Each of Us Ministers to a Weary World”                           Darcy Roake

Postlude                    “Let It Be a Dance”                          music and Words: Ric Masters 

Hymn #311 in Singing the Living Tradition                                   arranged by Betty A. Wylder

Announcements

(Facebook Live ends)

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

Closing Chant          Earth, my body; water, my blood; 

                                    Air, my breath; and fire, my spirit.

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Welcome! We’re glad you’re here!

·                 Lela Erb and Deborah Lauer will provide childcare during the service.

·                 We are grateful to our childcare staff; our pianist, Randall Kidder; our tech
            crew, Mike Bailey and Ralph Olander; our coffee hour volunteers; 

today’s host, Nina Redd, and greeter, Adeline Bailey; and to 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 or to Rev. Hawbaker.

Announcements

Today

·       Coffee hour! Please join us downstairs in the social hall for coffee and conversation. Joan Coffey and Jay Warmke will be serving.

Also during coffee hour, Ralph Olander will be taking photos 
of members and friends for a forthcoming photo directory.

·       12:30 p.m., Green Sanctuary Committee, RE building parlor

·       6 p.m., Vernal Equinox Celebration and Blessing of the Seeds,
 FUUSM courtyard (weather permitting).

·       8 p.m., Celebrate World Water Week with Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth! Join us in the FUUSM social hall for a galvanizing concert via Zoom with the inspiring musician and religious leader Aly Halpert (she/her)! As we face ongoing climate challenges, let's be inspired by community and song to continue and to deepen our engagement.

See the FUUSM Weekly Update in your email tomorrow for additional events.

Service Auction, Friday, March 31, at 6 p.m. at Marietta College’s Gathering Place. Send descriptions of items you will offer for the auction catalog to Cindy Brown (lablibn at gmail.com). To donate “country store” items, contact Dawn Hewitt (hewitt at earth-maker.com or (812) 320-3449). 

The Confluence deadline is March 20 for the April edition.

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.

First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta

Open minds, loving hearts, helping hands

232 Third St. 

Marietta, OH 45750

Dawn Hewitt
Office assistant
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta, Ohio
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