[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service for Sunday, April 27, 2025: Annual Congregational Meeting

Fri Apr 25 12:47:01 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. We don't need crackers, but
most of us will be disappointed if crackers is all that's offered. Please
help make FUUSM more welcoming and coffee hour more enjoyable by bringing
something tasty to share.

NOTE: There will not be a Time for All Ages during this short service.
Childcare will be available downstairs for the entire service and meeting.

We gather today to take up the business of our congregation. May we be kind
in our speaking, thoughtful in our deliberating and never stray from the
love that binds us together.

Welcome Song “Whoever You Are, We Welcome You,” by 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, Nancy Luthy, worship leader

Prelude   “Skyline,” by Ola Gjielo; Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting Linda Hart

*Please rise in body or spirit and remain standing for our FUUSM Affirmation

*Opening Hymn #360  “Here We Have Gathered,”  by Alicia S. Carpenter,
words; Genevan psalter, music

*FUUSM Affirmation

We, the members and friends of the First Unitarian Universalist Society of
Marietta:

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   Support the free and disciplined search for truth as the center of
   religious community and encourage an acceptance of pluralistic views;
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   Recognize our Judeo-Christian heritage as well as other traditions and
   seek lasting values and new insights;
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   Affirm, defend, and promote the equality, worth, and dignity of every
   person;
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   Strive for a world community of love, justice, and peace;
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   Support the democratic process and mutual respect in all human
   relationships;
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   Cherish the universe and its resources and recognize the unity of all
   life.

Collection of Offerings

Offertory   “What Gift Can We Bring,” June Marshall

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

Postlude “Little Fugue,” No. 2 in A Major, by Georg Philipp Telemann

Congregational Meeting,  Vic Elam, presiding

FUUSM Congregational Meeting

I. Call to Order: Vic Elam, President of the Board of Trustees

Quorum Count - Nancy Luthy

II. Approval of the April 28, 2024, Minutes: Nancy Luthy, Secretary of the
Board

MOTION:

III. Proposed Budget for 2025–2026: Don Poole, Treasurer

MOTION:

IV. Slate from the Nominating Committee: George Banziger

1.) Nominees for the Board of Trustees

      MOTION:

2.) Nominees for the Board of Trust Governors

     Paul LaPointe approved by the Board (7/8/24)

     MOTION:

V. Committee Reports

1.) Board of Trust Governors

2.) Finance Committee

3.) Buildings and Grounds

4.) Worship and Music

5.) Green Sanctuary

6.) Committee on Ministries

7.) Caring Touch

8.) Membership

9.) Board of Trustees

VI. General Assembly – FUUSM may have 3 delegates

June 18–22 Baltimore, MD $475 (if paid by 4/15)

Single day (in person) $300 online (opt-out) $150

MOTION:

VII. New Business

VIII. Items for the good of the Society

Committee to update “Mission Statement” or church “logo” (in response to
the “liberal religious voice” discussion by email)

IX. GRAND Service Recognition Award

X. Adjournment

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, primarily
Stephanie “Squish” Rector; our Coffee Hour volunteers, MickiAnne Henkels,
Beth Lepore, and Martha McGovern; today’s host, Adeline Bailey, and
greeter, Scott Lacey; collection counter Lori Flis, pianist, Randall Kidder;
worship leader, Nancy Luthy; and to the FUUSM Board of Trustees, Vic Elam,
president; *Ron Rees, *vice president; *Nancy Luthy, *secretary; *Donald
Poole, *treasurer; Shari Ballantyne, Karen Binkley, Robin Bozian, and
Darryl Ting.

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

Announcements

What’s with the clipboards?
The Rosebuds (the plant sale committee) are circulating clipboards
throughout the congregation this morning, seeking volunteers to help with
the sale; bake something to contribute, or donate plants, gardening tools,
yard art, etc. Plants we need: fresh starts, native plants, garden
vegetables and flowers, bulbs, annuals, perennials, house plants—anything
except exotic invasives. Additional info about the sale is on the
clipboard. Please sign up!

Saturday, April 26

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   9:30-10:30 a.m., Tai Chi for beginners, social hall (Darryl Ting)
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   5–10 p.m., private use of social hall (Betsy Kalter)

Sunday, April 27

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   9:30 a.m., Buildings & Grounds Committee meeting, social hall
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   9:30 a.m.  Today’s Issues Discussion, RE Building Parlor or on Zoom
   <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8583258484?pwd=RFdJUGZOZkU4THArWFpnVkllZzh1dz09>,
   to discuss an essay by David Brooks, a conservative columnist, called I
   Should Have Seen This Coming
   <https://docs.google.com/document/d/12OM17XANYZVHAzags993DRT5o5fpNJSReXAveazNaFA/edit?usp=sharing>
   .
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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
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   11 a.m., Abbreviated service followed by Annual Congregational Meeting.
   All voting members of FUUSM (if you have signed the Membership Book, you
   are a voting member) are encouraged to attend. (See above.)
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   11 a.m., Quaker meeting (MOV Friends), RE parlor

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

Monday, April 28: 7 p.m., Finance Committee via Zoom

Tuesday, April 29

   - 3:30–6:30 p.m., Girl Scout Troop meets in the social hall.
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   4:30–6:30 p.m., private use of RE parlor (Kim McMichael)
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   6:30 p.m., FINAL Game Night for the season, social hall. You’re
   invited!

*Thursday, May 1: *6–8 p.m., private use of sanctuary (Lucy Fillipow)

Friday, May 2: 4 p.m., Private wedding, arranged by Lucy Fillipow,
sanctuary only.

Saturday, May 3: 9:30-10:30 a.m., Tai Chi for beginners, social hall
(Darryl Ting)

Sunday, May 4

   - 9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary, on "Lafayette: Man of Character,"
   presented by  Jann Adams.
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   Coffee hour!  Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m.
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   12:30ish, Green Sanctuary Committee, RE parlor.

FUUSM Office hours:  Mon.,Tu., Th., Fri. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (Scott Lacey
filling in for Dawn.) (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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