[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service for Sunday, April 20

Fri Apr 18 11:40:09 CDT 2025

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 to make FUUSM more welcoming
and coffee hour more enjoyable. Fresh, homemade treats, fruits and
vegetables are especially welcome. We remain rich in crackers of many
varieties. An *egg hunt *in the courtyard will also follow the service!

*Easter and Earth Day: All In One Egg*

“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they
yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn.
And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of
the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The
Farthest Shore <https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1322014>

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 & Honoring Indigenous People Dawn Hewitt,  worship leader

Prelude  “Easter Hymn” (from Music for the Piano, Volume III, Hymns,
Prayers, and Rituals), by Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Thomas de
Hartmann, Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting   Passover Haggadah

Reading  “Gloria!”  by Rev. Barbara J. Pescan, read by Green Sanctuary
Committee member Kelcey Jacobs

Special Music  “Jazz Kyrie,”  by Andy Beck, performed by the FUUSM Choir, under
the direction of Martha Webster; accompanied by Randall Kidder

Time for All Ages  The Easter Story Goodnight, Little Lamb

Sending Song  “Go Now in Peace” Natalie Sleeth, words and music

Go now in peace. Go now in peace.

May the spirit of love surround you

Everywhere, everywhere, you may go.

Collection of Offerings

Offertory  “Reverie” (No.7 from Petite Suite) by Alexander Borodin

Reflection    A Future of Dreams Fulfilled — Updated!              Adeline
Bailey

          Climate Justice in Appalachia and Beyond       George Banziger

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Closing Hymn “O Day of Light and Gladness,”  Frederick Lucian Hosmer
words; Henry Smart, music, #270 in Singing the Living Tradition

Postlude  “All Creatures of the Earth and Sky,” from Ausserlesene
Catholische Kirchengesang, 1623

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

Closing Words / Extinguishing the Chalice

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

Thanks to our childcare staff, Owen Cejka and Lela Erb; our tech crew, Mike
Bailey,and Ralph Olander; our Design & Decoration team, Martha
McGovern and Stephanie
“Squish” Rector; our Coffee Hour volunteers, Susan and Tom Henderson and
Judy Segall; today’s host, Mike Lang, and greeter, Scott Lacey; the FUUSM
Choir, Martha Webster, director, accompanied by FUUSM’s pianist, Randall
Kidder; to today’s guest speakers, Adeline Bailey and George Banziger; to
our worship leader, Dawn Hewitt; and to FUUSM’s Green Sanctuary Committee, for
presenting this service.

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

Announcements

Today: Friday, April 18: Good Friday

Saturday, April 19

   -

   10 a.m. –1 p.m., Earth Day Marietta, Armory on Front Street. Green
   Sanctuary will have a booth.
   -

   1–5 p.m., tree planting on Buckley Island. Meet at Williamstown boat
   launch.

Sunday, April 20: Easter, and Confluence content due

   -

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

   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary (see Order of Service above).

   -

   Coffee hour!  Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m.
   -

   Egg Hunt! Courtyard, organized by Stephanie “Squish” Rector and Joey
   Thomas.
   -

   12:30-ish p.m., Green Sanctuary Committee meeting. Rescheduled for May 4.

Tuesday, April 22: Earth Day

   -

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

   4:30–6:30 p.m. private use of RE parlor (Kim McMichael)
   -

   6:30 p.m., Game Night, social hall. You’re invited!

Saturday, April 26

   -

   9:30–10:30 a.m., Tai Chi for beginners, social hall (Darryl Ting)

Sunday, April 27

   -

   9:30 a.m., Buildings & Grounds Committee meeting, social hall.
   -

   9:30 a.m.  Today’s Issues Discussion, RE Building parlor and on Zoom
   <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09>,
   to discuss an essay by David Brooks, a conservative columnist, titled “I
   Should Have Seen This Coming
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OM17XANYZVHAzags993DRT5o5fpNJSReXAveazNaFA/edit?usp=sharing>
   .”
   -

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

   11 a.m., Abbreviated service followed by Annual Congregational Meeting.
   All voting members of FUUSM are encouraged to attend. If you have signed
   the Membership Book, you are a voting member.
   -

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

   Coffee hour!  Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m.
   -

   3–6 p.m., Private use of social hall (Karen Binkley)

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

*Note: *Dawn will be out the week of April 28, but Scott Lacy will keep the
FUUSM office open its regular hours.

-- 
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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