[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, Sunday, Dec. 8: Peace, the Ribbon Ceremony

[Dawn Hewitt, 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/96052465552?pwd=SW1vWituTFlwc01vN2VLMzBQTWplZz09

Meeting ID: 960 5246 5552
Passcode: fuusm2323

Please bring a snack to share for coffee hour. Fresh fruit, veggies, and
homemade contributions are encouraged and appreciated. Pickins are pretty
slim in the FUUSM fridge right now.
Seeking Inner Peace: Ribbon Ceremony, Martha McGovern, worship leader
“Crave peace for all people in the world, beginning with yourselves, and go
as you go with the dream of that peace alive in your heart. —Mark L.
Belletini

Welcome Song “Come, Come, Whoever You Are,” Words: adapted from Rumi;
music: Lynn Adair Ungar

      Come, come, whoever you are, wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.

      Ours is no caravan of despair, come, yet again come.

Welcome & Honoring Indigenous People  #682, “Beauty,”  by the Navajo People

Martha McGovern, worship leader

Prelude   “Little Fugue in A Major,” Georg Philipp Telemann; Randall Kidder,
pianist

Chalice & Advent Candle Lighting    #505         by Thích Nhất Hanh

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn     “For the Beauty of the Earth,” #21 in Singing the Living
Tradition;  words: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint; music: Conrad Kocher

Time for All Ages  I Am Peace       by Susan Verde;  illustrated by Peter
H. Reynolds

Sending Song  “Go Now in Peace,” by Natalie Sleeth

Go now in peace. Go now in peace.

May the spirit of love surround you

Everywhere, everywhere, you may go.

Collection of Offerings

Offertory   “Still," by Ola Gjeilo

Reflection and Ribbon Ceremony: As you place a ribbon on the tree, please
share a blessing Life has already given you.

Special Music “Peace in the Midst of Chaos," written and performed by LeeAnn
Gallucci

* Closing Hymn   “There Is More Love Somewhere,” verses 2 & 3 (Hope, Peace)
#95 in Singing the Living Tradition; African American hymn

Closing Words   #681, ”Deep Peace,”   Adapted from Gaelic Runes

Postlude   “The Lark In the Clear Air,” Sir Samuel Ferguson

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

Joys and Sorrows/Wheel of Life  (Zoom participants are invited to share,
too.)

Benediction & Extinguishing the Chalice

***  Welcome! We’re glad you’re here! ***

Thanks to our childcare staff, Owen Cejka, Lela Erb, and Levi Weppler; our
tech crew, Mike Bailey, Ralph Olander, and Meabh (Maeve) Daly; our Design &
Decoration team led by Jane Tumas Serna, and all those who helped decorate
our sanctuary, inside and out; our Coffee Hour volunteers, Linda Lewis,
Betsy Liller, Mark Krivchenia, and Megan Krivchenia; today’s host, Dawn
Hewitt, and greeters, Stephanie “Squish” Rector and Joey Thomas; our
pianist, Randall Kidder; and today’s worship leader, Martha McGovern.

If you would like to learn more about membership or participation in FUUSM
congregational life, please speak to Dawn Hewitt.

Announcements

*Sunday, December 8*

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary (see above).
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   11 a.m., Quaker meeting (MOV Friends), RE parlor.
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   Coffee hour!  Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m. Caring Committee will assemble
   bags of cheer for our shut-ins.

Tuesday, December 10

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   Noon, UU-plus Women’s Book Group, Parkersburg Country Club.
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   3:30–6:30 p.m., Girl Scout Troop meets in the social hall.
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   6:30 p.m., Shari Ballantyne’s game night, social hall. (You’re invited!)

Wednesday, December 11

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   6 p.m., Women’s Group potluck, at The Fields Clubhouse in Williamstown.
   Martha McGovern and Suzyn Mills will host. Please RSVP to
   suzynmills at gmail.com.

Friday, December 13

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

Saturday, December 14

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   8 a.m.–noon, outside group in social hall (Willa O’Neill).

Sunday, December 15: Third Sunday of Advent

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary: Joy.
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   Coffee hour!  Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m.
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   12:30-ish, p.m., Green Sanctuary Committee meeting, RE parlor.

FUUSM Office hours:  Mon.,Tu., Th., Fri. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (740) 373-1238,
fuusm.office 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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