[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, March 31, 2024: Saving Grace, an all-ages Easter service, with Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker

Fri Mar 29 12:35:15 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
Masks are always appreciated in our sanctuary.
Please *bring a food item to share at Coffee Hour*! Finger-foods are
helpful for the volunteers who clean up afterward.

Saving Grace, an all-ages Easter service honoring our UU Christian heritage

Rev. Kathryn Hawkbaker will provide the reflection.

“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.” Ellis Peters

Welcome Song     “Good Where We’ve Been”   Chumash tribal chant

Good where we’ve been, Good where we’re going to (repeat 3x)

Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Heya He-ya (repeat 3x)

Welcome  Dawn Hewitt, worship associate

Acknowledging Native Lands

Prelude   “Spring Has Now Unwrapped the Flowers”  #63 in Singing the Living
Tradition; music: Thomas Benjamin; words: Piae Cantiones; Randall Kidder,
pianist

Chalice Lighting    “Beginners” #648  in Singing the Living Tradition,
by Denise
Levertov

Moment in Time “Mural Mural on the Wall”

Time for All Ages “Egg Roll”

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Song of Meditation #123 “Spirit of Life,” words & music: Carolyn McDade

Collection of Offerings

Offertory “A Promise through the Ages Rings,” #344 in Singing the Living
Tradition ; music: Severus Gastorius; words: Alicia S. Carpenter

*Hymn  #205 “Amazing Grace,” words: John Newton; music: Columbian Harmony

Sermon      Saving Grace, Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker

*Closing Hymn  #367 “Allelu, Allelu,” anonymous

Postlude   “Lo, the Earth Awakes Again,” #61 in Singing the Living
Tradition; words: Samuel Longfellow; music: Lyra Davidica

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

Wheel of Life, Joys and Sorrows

(Zoom participants are invited to share, too.)

Benediction “Peace, Salaam, Shalom” mma’s Revolution

“Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.” Alice
Walker

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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, Ralph Olander, and* Maeve Johnston; *to our Decor & Decoration
   team; to our Coffee Hour volunteers; to today’s host, Adeline Bailey; to
   our worship associate, Dawn Hewitt; 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

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, such as a motion,
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.

Today, Sunday, March 31

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary. New members are always welcome!
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   Today’s Issues will not meet.
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   9:30 a.m., New UU course, social hall.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary (see order of service, above).
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   Coffee hour! Betsy Kalter, Beth Lepore, and Nancy Luthy will be serving. In
   the courtyard: An Egg Hunt!!

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   1 p.m., Ostara Ceremony, an Earth-based (pagan) celebration of spring,
   courtyard, weather permitting.

Monday, April 1

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    2 p.m., Caring Committee via Zoom.

Tuesday, April 2

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

 Wednesday, April 3

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   Noon, Meditation via Zoom.
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   4 p.m., Worship & Music Committee meeting, RE parlor.
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   7 p.m., Private use of social hall (Diana Bonnell, Religious Trauma
   group)

Friday, April 5

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   9:30 a.m., Membership Committee meeting, RE parlor.
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   6 p.m., Private use of social hall (Laura Delancy, Stitch & ?itch).

Sunday, April 7

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary. New members are always welcome!
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   9:30 a.m., New UU course, social hall.
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   9:30 a.m., Today’s Issues discussion group is on hiatus.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary.
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   Coffee hour! Social hall. Ends at 1:15 p.m.
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   12:15 p.m., Committee on Ministries, 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 available for appointments. Text
or phone (937) 470-4151, or email revkatgreen at gmail.com.

-- 
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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