[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, March 24, 2024: U, U, and UU Women: Making Our Voices Heard Since 1694

Fri Mar 22 12:15:31 CDT 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
We ❤️ people who opt to wear masks in the FUUSM sanctuary!
Please *bring a food item to share at Coffee Hour*! Finger-foods are
helpful for the volunteers who clean up afterward.

*U, U, and UU Women: Making Our Voices Heard Since 1694*
Rebecca Phillips, PhD, retired English professor at WVUP

“We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path
laid open to Woman as freely as to Man. Were this done, . . . we believe
the divine energy would pervade nature to a degree unknown in the history
of former ages, and that no discordant collision, but a ravishing harmony
of the spheres, would ensue. Yet, then and only then will mankind be ripe
for this, when inward and outward freedom for Woman as much as for Man
shall be acknowledged as a right, not yielded as a concession.”     Margaret
Fuller, 1845

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  Martha McGovern, worship leader

Honoring Indigenous Peoples

Prelude   “On Earth Peace”  François Couperin (1668-1733); Randall Kidder,
pianist

Chalice Lighting

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn  “For All That Is Our Life,”  verses 1,2,3; #128  in Singing
the Living Tradition; words: Bruce Findlow; music: Patrick L. Rickey

*Responsive Reading  “They Are With Us Still,” #721 in Singing the Living
Tradition; Kathleen McTigue

Time for All Ages No One But You, by Douglas Wood; illustrated by P.J. Lynch

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 “If Every Woman in the World”   #1026 in Singing the Journey; words:
Karen Mackay and Nancy L. Nordlie; music: Karen Mackay

Reflection          U, U, and UU Women: Making Our Voices Heard Since
1694, Rebecca
Phillips, Ph.D., Professor emerita, WVUP

Short film One Fine Day

Reprise “They Are With Us Still,” Kathleen McTigue

Postlude   “The Cradle,” Larry Young (Khalid Yasim)

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

Joys and Sorrows (Zoom participants are invited to share, too.)

Closing Words/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 and our Design
& Decoration team; to today’s host, Mike Lang, and greeter, Beth Lepore; to
our worship leader,  Martha McGovern; and to our guest speaker, Dr. Rebecca
Phillips.

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

Announcements

Annual Congregational Meeting Ahead

Mark your calendar: FUUSM’s annual Congregational Meeting will follow the
Sunday service on April 28. If you wish to add an item to the meeting’s
agenda, it must be submitted to Board of Trustees Secretary Nancy Luthy by
April 14: nancy.luthy at gmail.com. Committee chairs, your annual reports are
due to fuusm.office at gmail.com by April 9.

*Ten Coffee Hour Volunteers Are Still Needed!*

*Please sign up* for six coffee hour shifts a year! This schedule will
begin on April 7. We still need volunteers for:

   - first Sunday of odd months (1 person)
   - second Sunday of odd months (1)
   - third Sunday of odd months (2)
   - third Sunday of even months (1)
   - fourth Sunday of odd months (1)
   - fourth Sunday of even months (2)
   - fifth Sundays (2)

Please email Dawn at dawnbirder at gmail.com if you can help.

*Seeking Donations for April 12 Service Auction*

Please donate to FUUSM's biggest fundraiser of the year: the Service
Auction, to be held April 12. There are three categories: Live auction,
silent auction, and set price. (No country store this time.) Forms with the
info needed to prepare bid sheets and the catalog are in the social hall.
Fill out the form and get it to the church lady, or send the information as
an email to: Cindy Brown at labrown at gmail.com,

Today, Sunday, March 24

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary. Not this week.
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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, *RE upstairs meeting room*.
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   9:30 a.m., New UU eight-week course, social hall. Contact Membership
   Committee chair Elaine Barr (elainebarr at gmail.com)
   - 9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary. Canceled this week.

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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary. See order of service, above.
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   11 a.m., MOV Friends (Quakers) meeting RE parlor.
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   Coffee hour! Social hall. Ends at 1:30 p.m. Shari Ballantyne, Steph
   Rector, and Jay Warmke will be serving.

Monday, March 25

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   7 p.m., Finance Committee meeting via Zoom.

Tuesday, March 26

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

Wednesday, March 27

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   Noon, Mediation via Zoom
   <https://zoom.us/j/93461686559?pwd=Zm9Wdk1ZbjR0Rm56UGREOG5YZE5uZz09>.

Sunday, March 31

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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., New UU course, social hall.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary: Easter, all-ages service, with Rev.
   Kathryn Hawbaker.
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   Coffee hour! Social hall. Ends at 1:30 p.m.

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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