[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, Sunday, January 14, 2024: Honoring MLK; guest speaker, Jann Adams

Fri Jan 12 11:12:07 CST 2024

 Please join us at 11 a.m. Sunday in person in the sanctuary, or join us
via Facebook Live, or on Zoom at
https://zoom.us/j/96052465552?pwd=SW1vWituTFlwc01vN2VLMzBQTWplZz09
Meeting ID: 960 5246 5552
Passcode: fuusm2323

*NOTE: This is a NEW, permanent Zoom link!  The previous link will not
work!!*

Because Covid is resurging locally, we encourage in-person attendees to
wear masks.
And if you enjoy Coffee Hour, please bring a food item to share!

Taking Another Look at Ourselves: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

“Sooner or later, all the people of the world will have to discover a
way to live together.”  —Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“I look forward to the day . . . when we shall bring into full realization
the American dream—a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of
opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a
land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to
the few, . . . a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are
held not for ourselves alone but as instruments of service for the rest of
humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity
and worth of human personality. That is the dream.”  —Martin Luther King
Jr., at AFL-CIO National Convention, Miami Beach, Florida, December 11, 1961

Welcome Song  #188 “Come, Come Whoever You Are,” Words by Rumi; Music by
Lynn Adair Ungar

Welcome  Martha McGovern, worship leader

Acknowledging Native Lands

Prelude   Piano Piece No.2, “Call and Response,” from Six Piano Pieces ,
Robert Mawuena Kwami, composer; Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting  “I Dream a World,” Langston Hughes

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn #323 “Break Not the Circle,” Words: Fred Kaan; Music: Thomas
Benjamin
*F.U.U.S.M.  Affirmation

Special Music  “I Am a Citizen of the World” Eugene Butler; FUUSM Choir,
Martha Webster, director

Time for All Ages   Martin’s Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., Written by Doreen Rappaport; Illustrated by Bryan Collier

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.

Reading  #528 “I’ve Known Rivers,” Langston Hughes

Collection of Offerings

Offertory “Deep River,” from 24 Negro Melodies, Op.59       Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor

(1875–1912, not to be confused with Samuel Coleridge Taylor, 1772–1834, the
English poet.) In the 24 pieces of Op.59, the African-British composer set
African, West Indian, and African-American melodies and folk songs to
piano. He explains that this is similar to "what Brahms has done for the
Hungarian folk-music, Dvorak for the Bohemian, and Grieg for the Norwegian."

Reflection Taking Another Look at Ourselves, Jann Adams, local historian
and retired educator

*Closing Hymn #169  “We Shall Overcome,”  African American spiritual

Closing Words  “We Dream a World,”  Written by Yolanda Renee
King; Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

Postlude   “At a Certain Church,” from Scuppernong, A Suite for Piano
John W. Work

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, 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, Dawn
   Hewitt, and greeters, Steph Rector and Joey Thomas; to the Design &
   Decoration Task Force; to our worship leader, Martha McGovern; to our
   guest speaker, Jann Adams; and to the FUUSM Choir, under the direction
   of Martha Webster.

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!  We especially need sopranos and baritones.
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   9:30 a.m., Today’s issues discussion, RE parlor.
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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! Joan Coffey and Betsy Kalter will be serving.

Monday, January 15, MLK Day: FUUSM Office closed.

Tuesday, January 16

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

 Wednesday, January 17

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   Noon, Meditation via Zoom.
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   6 p.m., Men’s Group potluck, social hall. Darry Ting will host.

Saturday, January 20: Confluence Content Due

Sunday, January 21

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   9:30 a.m., Today’s issues discussion, RE parlor; Choir practice, sanctuary.

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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary,
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   12:30 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. Rev. Hawbaker is on sabbatical through March 2024.
-- 
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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