[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, June 16, 2024: Annual Flower Ceremony

Fri Jun 14 11:54:13 CDT 2024

 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
There aren't many leftovers to serve at Coffee Hour, so please *bring a
food item to share*. Finger foods require fewer dishes, which helps the
volunteers who will clean up afterward. Please consider bringing your own
travel mug and opting for a napkin but no plate or fork (if possible).

Order of Service                Flower Ceremony           June 16, 2024

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy
the whole time to have such things about us.”—Iris Murdoch

Please place your flowers in the vases as you arrive, OR feel free to hang
on to them if you have something to mention in the ceremony about the
flower’s significance to you.

Welcome Song   “Peace, Salaam, Shalom”              Emma’s Revolution

Chorus:   Peace, Salaam, Shalom…  (4 times)

Welcome “Beginners”   by Denise Levertov; #648 in Singing the Living
Tradition; Shari Ballantyne, worship associate

Prelude “Kiss the Rain,” Yiruma; Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting/Honoring the Ancestors Juneteenth; Ami Rush

*Please rise in body or spirit.

Opening Hymn  #65 in Singing the Living Tradition ,“The Sweet June
Days,”  words:
Samuel Longfellow; music: English melody

Time for All Ages  “My Father’s Hands”  by Joanne Ryder, illustrated by
Mark Graham

Reading   “Too Many To Count,” by Alison Luterman, in How to Love the
World:  Poems of gratitude and hope, ed.by James Crews

Collection of Gifts

Offertory “O Brother Sun,” #1066 in Singing the Living Journey; traditional
Scottish melody

F.U.U.S.M.   Flower Ceremony

Please use the microphones if you have something to mention about the
flower’s significance to you.

*Closing Hymn #346 in Singing the Living Tradition, “Come, Sing a Song With
Me,” words and music: Carolyn McDade

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

Joys & Sorrows  In-person & Zoom

Extinguishing the Chalice

Everyone is invited to come forward & join in the congregational photo,
and please take a different flower home with you as you depart.

Promenade Music  (recorded)

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Welcome! We’re glad you’re here!

   - Thanks to our childcare staff, Owen Cejka, Lela Erb, Deborah Lauer, and
   Levi Weppler.
   - We are grateful to our pianist, Randall Kidder; our tech crew, Mike
   Bailey, Ralph Olander, and Meabh (Maeve) Daly; our Coffee Hour
   volunteers;  our Decor & Decoration team, led by Jane Tumas Serna; to
   today’s host, Adeline Bailey; our worship associate, Shari Ballantyne; 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.

Announcements

Today

   -

   Coffee Hour! Social hall. Nancy Luthy, Stephanie (Squish) Rector, and Judy
   Segall, at your service.
   -

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

Tuesday, June 18

   -

   3:30–6:30 p.m., Girl Scouts meet in social hall.

Wednesday, June 19: FUUSM OFFICE CLOSED for Juneteenth (and because it’s
Wednesday).

   -

   Noon, Meditation via Zoom.
   -

   6 p.m., Men’s Group potluck, social hall. George Banziger will host.

Friday, June 21: Mid-Ohio Valley Multicultural Festival
<https://movmcf.org/>begins, through Sunday, June 23, at Parkersburg City
Park.

Sunday, June 23

   -

   9:30 a.m., Buildings & Grounds Committee meeting, postponed, rescheduled
   for 9:30 June 30.
   -

   11 a.m., annual FUUSM potluck brunch at Shelter #11, Parkersburg City
   Park. Interfaith service at noon at the park’s main stage.
   -

   11 a.m., Quaker Meeting postponed, rescheduled for 11 a.m. June 30.

-- 
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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