[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, Nov. 19, 2023: All Ages Thanksgiving Service

[Dawn Hewitt, FUUSM office assistant]

Please join us at *11 a.m. Sunday* *in person* in the sanctuary, or join us
via *Facebook Live*, or on *Zoom*, at
https://zoomus/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09
<https://zoom.us/j/94822183499?pwd=ZVhkMHZWSnR1bTI5czZWRk1zdFFmQT09>Meeting
ID: 948 2218 3499 Passcode: fuusm2323.
*REMINDER: If you enjoy Coffee Hour, please bring a food item to share. *


If the only prayer you ever say

in your entire life is thank you,

it will be enough.

—Meister Eckhart



I slept and dreamt that life was joy.

I awoke and saw that life was service.

I acted and behold, service was joy.

—Rabindranath Tagore
<https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/rabindranath-tagore-quotes>


A Muslim Call to Prayer (recorded)

Welcome          Rebecca Phillips, worship associate

Honoring Indigenous People Nip Muc prayer       Ami Rush

Prelude   “Morning Has Broken ”         Traditional Gaelic melody

            Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting/Covenant #473   James Vila Blake

Story  Sparrow’s Prayer       Martha McGovern

By Roger Hutchison, illustrated by Ag Jatkowska

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Hymn #407  “We’re Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table”          traditional
     in Singing the Living Tradition

Special Collection for Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

All cash collected today and any checks written to FUUSM and designated for
UUSC through the end of the 2023 will be directed to their ministry of
supporting justice partners in the U.S. and around the world. Please be
sure to designate checks in fulfillment of your annual FUUSM pledge as
“pledge.”

Offertory Sonata No. 56 in D-major                   Domenico Scarlatti

Sermon      Service Is Our Prayer                  Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker

*Closing Hymn #67 “We Sing Now Together”        words: Edwin T. Buehrer;

in Singing the Living Tradition music: Adrian Valerius’s “Nederlandtsch
Gedenckclanck”



Benediction         Rebecca Phillips

Postlude   “Thanksgiving”    George Winston

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

Joys and Sorrows/Wheel of Life      (Zoom participants may share, too.)


Welcome! We’re glad you’re here!

   -

   Thanks to our childcare staff, Owen Cejka, Lela Erb, and Deborah Lauer.
   -

   We are grateful to our pianist, Randall Kidder; to our tech crew, Mike
   Bailey and Ralph Olander; to our Coffee Hour volunteers; to today’s
host, Mike
   Lang, and greeter, Linda Needham; to our worship associate, Rebecca
   Phillips; 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, Sunday, November 19

   - 9:30 a.m.,* Buildings & Grounds Committee meeting, *social hall.
   - 9:30 a.m., *Today's Issues discussion*, RE parlor.
   - 9:30 a.m., *Choir practice,* sanctuary.
   - 11 a.m. *Sunday service *(see above).
   -

   Coffee hour! Joan Coffey and Kim McMichael will be serving.
   -

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


Monday, November 20

   -

   December Confluence content due! Email to compiler Ted Goertzel at
   fuusm.confluence at gmail.com.


Tuesday, November 21

   -

   1 p.m., proposed digital sign demo, social hall.
   -

   3:30–6:30 p.m., Girl Scout troop meets in social hall.


Wednesday, November 22

   -

   Noon, Meditation via Zoom.


Thursday, November 23: Thanksgiving! FUUSM office closed.

Sunday, November 26

   -

   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary; Today’s issues discussion, RE
   parlor.
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   11 a.m., abridged Sunday service, sanctuary; Quaker meeting, RE parlor.
   -

   11:30 a.m, Holiday Card-signing workshop, FUUSM social hall; Coffee Hour.

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 email to
revkatgreen at gmail.com.


-- 
Dawn Hewitt
Office assistant
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta
232 Third St.
Marietta, OH 45750
(740)373-1238
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 10 a.m.--2 p.m.
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