[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service for Sunday, Feb. 18: Appreciating Our Natural World - Vic Elam

Fri Feb 16 11:37:46 CST 2024

 Please join us at 11 a.m. Sunday in person in the sanctuary, or via
Facebook Live, or on Zoom at
https://zoom.us/j/96052465552?pwd=SW1vWituTFlwc01vN2VLMzBQTWplZz09
Meeting ID: 960 5246 5552
Passcode: fuusm2323
Because Covid is resurging locally, we encourage in-person attendees to
wear masks.
And if you enjoy Coffee Hour, pleas*e bring a food item to share! **The
cupboards are pretty bare right now.* In consideration of our volunteers
who clean up and lock up*,* *l**et's end Coffee Hour by 1:30*.

Appreciating Our Natural World
Vic Elam, guest speaker. Vic is the property manager for the Ohio River
Islands National Wildlife Refuge, and president of the FUUSM Board of
Trustees.

Welcome Song “Whoever You Are, We Welcome You” Hal Walker

Whoever you are, we welcome you.

Wherever you come from, we welcome you.

Whomever you love, we welcome you.

Welcome  Dawn Hewitt, worship leader

Honoring Indigenous Peoples

Prelude   “The Oneness of Everything”  Jim Scott; Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting

Black History Month: The Harlem Renaissance, Introduced by Ami Rush

Reading   “The Peace of the Wild Things”    Wendell Berry

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn “We Celebrate the Web of Life”  #175 in Singing the Living
Tradition  words: Alicia S. Carpenter; music: Melchior Vulpius

*F.U.U.S.M.  Affirmation

Time for All Ages Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal Habitats, by Il Sung
Na

Sending Song  “Go Now in Peace”   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 “Aspens in January”     Michael Gettel

Reflection      Appreciating Our Natural World    Vic Elam

*Closing Hymn #207 “Earth Was Given as a Garden”  words: Roberta Bard; Music:
Rowland Hugh Prichard

Closing Words “When the Earth, its products, its creatures become his
concern, man is caught up in a cause greater than his own life and more
meaningful. Only when man loses himself in an endeavor of that magnitude
does he walk and live with humility and reverence.”  —US Supreme Court
Justice William O. Douglas (1898–1980)

Postlude   “For the Beauty of the Earth” music: Conrad Kocher

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

Joys and Sorrows/Wheel of Life

(Zoom participants are invited to share, too.)

Extinguishing the Chalice

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Welcome! We’re glad you’re here!

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   Thanks to our childcare staff, Owen Cejka, Lela Erb, and Deborah Lauer.
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   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,
   Adeline Bailey, and greeter, Rhonda Newhart; to our worship leader, Dawn
   Hewitt; and to our guest speaker, Vic Elam.

If you would like to learn more about membership or participation in FUUSM
congregational life, please speak to today’s host.

Announcements

Today

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.  New members are always welcome!
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   9:30 a.m., Today’s Issues discussion group, RE parlor.

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   Coffee hour! Social hall. Ends at 1:30 p.m. Mark Krivchenia, Cathy Rees,
   and ??? will be serving.
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   12:30 p.m, Green Sanctuary Committee meeting, RE parlor.
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   12:30 p.m., Board of Trust Governors meeting, RE upstairs meeting room.

Monday, February 19: Presidents Day. FUUSM Office closed.

Tuesday, February 20

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   3:30–6:30 p.m., Girl Scout Troop in social hall.
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   6:00–9 p.m., The Work That Reconnects workshop series, session 4, via
   Zoom.

Wednesday, February 21

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   Noon, Meditation via Zoom
   <https://zoom.us/j/93461686559?pwd=Zm9Wdk1ZbjR0Rm56UGREOG5YZE5uZz09>.
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   6 p.m., Men’s Group potluck, social hall. George Banziger will host.

Sunday, February 25

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.  New members are always welcome!
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   9:30 a.m., Today’s Issues discussion group, RE parlor.
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   9:30 a.m., Buildings & Grounds Committee meeting, social hall.
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   11 a.m, Sunday service, sanctuary: Israel and Palestine: The 2023 Gaza
   War, with Mideast expert Janice Terry, PhD.
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   11 a.m., MOV Friends (Quaker) meeting, RE parlor.
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   Coffee hour! Social hall. (Ends at 1 p.m.)
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   1 p.m., Workshop on Conflict Resolution, social hall, moderated by George
   Banziger.

FUUSM Office hours:  Mon.,Tu., Th., Fri. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (740) 373-1238,
fuusm.office at gmail.com. Rev. Hawbaker is on sabbatical through March 2024.

FUUSM Affirmation

We, the members and friends of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of
Marietta:

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   Support the free and disciplined search for truth as the center of
   religious community and encourage an acceptance of pluralistic views;
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   Recognize our Judeo-Christian heritage as well as other traditions and
   seek lasting values and new insights;
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   Affirm, defend, and promote the equality, worth, and dignity of every
   person;
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   Strive for a world community of love, justice, and peace;
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   Support the democratic process and mutual respect in all human
   relationships;
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   Cherish the universe and its resources and recognize the unity of all
   life.

-- 
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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