[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Christmas Eve service, 7 p.m. tonight!

[Dawn Hewitt, FUUSM office assistant]

Please join us at 7 this evening in person in the sanctuary or on Zoom (not
Facebook) at
https://zoom.us/j/96052465552?pwd=SW1vWituTFlwc01vN2VLMzBQTWplZz09

Meeting ID: 960 5246 5552
Passcode: fuusm2323

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Gathering Music  “The First Nowell,” words: English carol; music: William
Sandy; sung by Brigham Young University Choir

Welcome Suzyn Mills, worship leader

Opening Hymn #233   “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella”   Traditional
French carol

Chalice Lighting      “Joy” by Rev. Edward Searl

Special Music    “Luli, Luli”   words and music: Jill Gallina, performed by
the FUUSM Choir, directed by Martha Webster; accompanied by Randall Kidder

Reading    “If Only for the Season,” by Rev. Searl

Hymn # 254  “Sing We Now of Christmas,”   Medieval French carol

Story for All Ages “’Twas the Night Before Christmas,” by Clement Clarke
Moore; recited by Nancy Luthy

Hymn #255      “There’s a Star in the East,”  African American spiritual

Reading   “The Unitarian Universalist Christmas,”   by Rev. Searl

Hymn #245   “Joy to the World,”  words: Isaac Watts; music: Methodist
Collection of Tunes

Reading   “Always in Season,” by Rev. Searl

Special Music   Hymn #256 “Winter Night” words and music: Shelley
Jackson Denham;
 sung by Martha Webster

Collection of Offering

Offertory  “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,”  words: Edmund Hamilton
Sears; music:
Richard Storrs Willis; sung by Celtic Woman

Reading    “An Audacious Light,,” by Rev. Searl

Hymn #251   “Silent Night,” words: Joseph Mohr, music: Franz Xaver Gruber

Candle Ceremony

In the ceremony, two light-carriers will start the lighting of candles by
moving pew by pew from front to back. The first person in the pew will
pass the light along to others in their pew. Please wait until they come to
your  pew and model the sharing of light by saying: “I share my light with
you.”

Music to Light Candles  “Night of Silence/Silent Night,”  by Daniel Kantor
and Franz Gruber; sung by St. Olaf Choir

Benediction   “Christmas All the Days of the Year”                       by
Rev. Searl

Recessional    “Carol of the Bells”         by Mykola Leontovych, sung by
Voices of Lee

Thanks to our tech crew, Mike Bailey, Ralph Olander, and Meabh (Maeve) Daly;
our Design & Decoration team, led by Jane Tumas Serna; our greeters, Elaine
Barr and Joanthan Brier;  the FUUSM Choir, directed by Martha Webster; our
pianist, Randall Kidder; and our worship leader, Suzyn Mills.

Please join us at 11 a.m. Sunday, December 29, for our annual Fire
Ceremony.

-- 
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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