[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service for Sunday, December 1, 2024: Keepers of Hope

Fri Nov 29 12:09:42 CST 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
Please bring a snack to share for coffee hour. What we've got now is
miscellaneous, week-old olds and ends. Fresh fruit, veggies, and homemade
contributions are encouraged and appreciated.

“For this hour we come to celebrate, to praise, to give thanks, to refuse
to give up, to steady ourselves – [we are] keepers of hope, brave builders
of this still-possible world.”
>From “The Bright Thread of Hope,” by Gretchen Haley

Welcome Song “Come, Come, Whoever You Are” Words: adapted from Rumi; music:
Lynn Adair Ungar

      Come, come, whoever you are, wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.

      Ours is no caravan of despair, come, yet again come.

Welcome   Virginia Henthorn, worship leader

Lighting of the Chalice and the Advent Candle

Holding the Hope for One Another: An Exercise in Caring and Trusting

Music for Reflection “Silhouetten,” Op. 8, No. 2, by Antonín Dvořák; Randall
Kidder, pianist

For those attending via Zoom or Facebook, get a small piece of paper and
pencil or pen. Write your answer to these questions:

In my life, right now I'm struggling with...

In that struggle, one thing I hope for is ...

Time for All Ages  Hope Is an Open Heart, by Lauren Thompson

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 Slips of Paper

Collection of Offerings

Offertory   “When Our Heart Is in a Holy Place,” Joyce Poley

Redistribution of Papers

Partners in Hope   “We hold the hope for you”

*Please stand in body or spirit

Closing Hymn #95 in Singing the Living Tradition “There Is More Love
Somewhere,” verse 2 only, African American hymn

Closing Words

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

Joys and Sorrows/Wheel of Life  (Zoom participants are invited to share,
too.)

Benediction and Extinguishing the Chalice

***  Welcome! We’re glad you’re here! ***

Thanks to our childcare staff, Owen Cejka and Levi Weppler; our tech crew, Mike
Bailey, Ralph Olander, and Meabh (Maeve) Daly; our Decor & Decoration team,
*J*ane Tumas Serna and Stephanie “Squish” Rector; our Coffee Hour
volunteers, Mickianne Henkels and George and Gwen Banziger; today’s hosts,
Darryl and Cynthis Ting; our pianist, Randall Kidder; today’s worship
leader, Virginia Henthorn, and Martha McGovern, who planned today’s service.

If you would like to learn more about membership or participation in FUUSM
congregational life, please speak to Darryl or Cynthia Ting.

Announcements

Today, Sunday, December 1: First day of Advent, through Dec. 24

   - 9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
   - 11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary (see order of service above).
   - Coffee hour, social hall. Please help sign holiday cards for local
   nursing home residents, and/or help decorate the sanctuary, and/or help
   decorate the exterior of our lovely building.
   -

   12:15 p.m., Committee on Ministries, RE parlor.

Monday, December 2

   -

   2 p.m., Caring Committee via Zoom
   -

   6:30 p.m., FUUSM Board of Trustees, RE parlor.

Tuesday, December 3: Giving Tuesday

   -

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

   6:30 p.m., Shari Ballantyne’s game night, social hall.

Wednesday, December 4

   -

   5 p.m., Worship & Music Committee, RE parlor.

Sunday, December 8: Second Sunday of Advent

   -

   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
   -

   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary. Peace: Ribbon Ceremony.
   -

   11 a.m., Quaker meeting (MOV Friends), RE parlor
   -

   Coffee hour! Social hall. Our Caring Committee will assemble bags of
   cheer for our shut-ins.

FUUSM Office hours:  Mon.,Tu., Th., Fri. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (740) 373-1238,
fuusm.office 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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