[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service for Sunday, Oct. 6: We Forgive Ourselves and Each Other

Fri Oct 4 11:51:20 CDT 2024

Dawn Hewitt, FUUSM office assistant <fuusm.office at gmail.com>
[image: Attachments]Fri, Sep 27, 12:36 PM (7 days ago)
to Poncet
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. Fresh fruit, veggies, and
homemade contributions are encouraged. Finger foods require fewer dishes,
which helps the volunteers who will clean up afterward.

We Forgive Ourselves and Each Other

Covenant or Vow: an earnest promise or pledge that binds one to perform a
specified act or to behave in a certain manner; especially, a solemn
promise to live and act in accordance with the faith and prescriptions of a
religious body.

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 People     Whereas      by Layli Long Soldier, and U.S.
apology

Prelude   “Essene Hymn,”     No. 10 in Music for the Piano, Volume IV (Hymns
from a Great Temple and Other Selected Works)  Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
and Thomas de Hartmann; Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting    words of Frederick E. Gillis #694 in Singing the Living
Tradition

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Hymn  #213 in Singing the Living Tradition, “There’s a Wideness in Your
Mercy”  words: Frederick William Faber; music: Amos Pillsbury’s United
States’ Sacred Harmony

Time for All Ages “One Hundred Sheep”  in Who Counts? (a creative retelling
of three parables told by Jesus) by Amy-Jill Levine & Sandy Eisenberg
Sasso,  illustrated by Margaux Meganck

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.

*F.U.U.S.M.  Affirmation  (see screen or inside cover of  Singing the
Living Tradition)

Collection of Offerings

Offertory “This Old World," from Southern Harmony

Reflection  Forgiving Ourselves and Each Other, Martha McGovern

Ritual of Forgiveness Rev. Kathryn Hawbaker, Martha McGovern, Worship &
Music Committee, and the FUUSM Board of Trustees

“We Begin Again in Love”  #1037 in Singing the Journey; words: Robert
Eller-Isaacs; music: Les Kleen

Refrain: We forgive ourselves and each other. We begin again in love.

Narrators:

  1. For remaining silent when a single voice would have made a difference…

   2. For letting fear make us rigid or withdrawn…

   3. For striking out in anger without thought of the other…

   4. For letting greed blind us to the needs of others…

   5. For being too self-centered to hear or see others…

   6. For causing damage in a moment of inattention or carelessness…

   7. For falling short in enacting our FUUSM affirmation…

   8. For these and for any acts, whether obvious or  subtle, which
have desecrated
the unity of all beings, of all life…

Unison Reading #694 in Singing the Living Tradition, words of Frederick E.
Gillis:

May the Love which overcomes all differences, which heals all wounds, which
puts to flight all fears, which reconciles all who are separated, be in us
and among us, now and always.

*Closing Hymn #323 in Singing the Living Tradition, “Break Not the Circle,”
verses 1 & 2, words: Fred Kaan; music: Thomas Benjamin

Closing Words  “How could anyone fail to notice that your loving is a
miracle?  How deeply you’re connected to my soul?”

Postlude  “How Could Anyone”  # 1053 in Singing the Journey,  Libby Roderick

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

Extinguishing the Chalice

Welcome! We’re glad you’re here!

Thanks to our childcare staff, Owen Cejka, Lela Erb, Deborah Lauer, and Levi
Weppler; our Decor & Decoration team, led by Jane Tumas Serna; our tech
crew, Mike Bailey, Meabh (Maeve) Daly and Ralph Olander; our Coffee Hour
volunteers, George and Gwen Banziger and MickiAnne Henkels; today’s hosts,
Darryl and Cynthia Ting; our worship leader, Martha McGovern, and all the
others who participated in today’s service; our pianist, Randall Kidder;
and 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

*THIS EVENING, Friday, Oct. 4, from 4–6 p.m., Rev. Hawbaker has invited all
FUUSM members and friends for a "happy hour" *on her front porch, at 650
Ferncliff Drive, in the Devola neighborhood of Marietta.

Saturday, Oct. 5

   -

   1 p.m., John Kidd Celebration of Life, sanctuary and social hall.

Sunday, Oct. 6

   -

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

   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary. (See above)
   -

   Coffee hour! Social hall. Birthday celebration for Linda Needham, ends
   at 2 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 7

   -

   2 p.m., Caring Committee meeting via Zoom.
   -

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

Tuesday, Oct. 8

   -

   Noon, UU+ Women’s Book Group, Parkersburg Country Club.
   -

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

Wednesday, Oct. 9

   -

   6 p.m., Women’s Group potluck, social hall, hosted by Shari Ballantyne
   and Susan Henderson.

Saturday, Oct. 12

   -

   3:30–9 p.m., sanctuary and social hall reserved for service auction
   item. (Dawn Hewitt and Randall Kidder)

Sunday, Oct. 13

   -

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

   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary; guest speaker Peter Mather will
   speak on Becoming a Flourishing Community.
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   11 a.m., Quaker meeting (MOV Friends), RE parlor
   -

   Honoring Indigenous People, on sidewalk in front of FUUSM.
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   Coffee hour!  Social hall. Ends at 1 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 available by appointment.

We Can Provide Thanksgiving Dinner for the Community Resource Center!

Norwood United Methodist Church typically serves 600 or more free to-go
meals on Thanksgiving Day. (Imagine!) Forty of those meals will end up in
the FUUSM social hall, where Nancy Lee and Shari Ballantyne (and anyone
else who wants to help), will serve them to patrons of the Community
Resource Center! Nancy and Shari made the arrangements, and will be there
to clean up. Wouldn't it be nice if the members and friends of FUUSM would
help underwrite Norwood UM's generous and massive undertaking? We can! To
do so, write a check to FUUSM, and in the memo line, write: Norwood
Thanksgiving. We will keep track of all such donations and then write one
check to Norwood UMC. Please donate by Sunday, Nov. 10, so we can write the
check soon after, and actually help them with buying the ingredients. Put
your check in the collection plate, hand it to Dawn, or mail it to FUUSM,
232 Third St., Marietta, OH 45750. Kudos to Nancy and Shari for coming up
with this plan.

-- 
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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