[Fuusm-l] FUUSM order of service for Sunday, Aug. 10: Haiku as Meditation

[Dawn Hewitt, FUUSM office assistant]

Please join us at 11 a.m. Sunday in person in the *SOCIAL HALL*, 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 really don't need
crackers or tortilla chips, but will gratefully accept all contributions.

Haiku as Meditation, Nicole Livengood, PhD, guest presenter

empty church

relighting

someone’s candle”

—frances angela, from Hedgerow: A Journal of Small Poems

Welcome Song    “Whoever You Are,” 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   Martha McGovern, worship leader

Prelude   “Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)”  Japanese folk song; Randall Kidder,
pianist

Chalice Lighting #480 in Singing the Living Tradition

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn #203  “All Creatures of the Earth and Sky,” verses 1–3

       in Singing the Living Tradition    St. Francis of Assisi, words;
Ralph Vaughan Williams, music

Collection of Offerings

Offertory   “Mother Earth, Beloved Garden,” by Amanda Udis-Kessler

Reflection Haiku as Meditation,  Nicole Livengood, PhD, guest speaker

*Closing Hymn  #379 (music #370) “Ours Be the Poems of All Tongues”

Singing the Living Tradition         Kenneth L. Patton, words; Genevan
psalter, music

Ours be the poems of all tongues,

All things of loveliness and worth.

All arts, all ages, and all songs,

One life, one beauty on the earth.

Closing Words

Postlude   “Down by the Salley Gardens,”  Herbert Hughes

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

Extinguishing the Chalice / Benediction

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

Thanks to our tech crew, Mike Bailey and Ralph Olander; today’s collection
counter, Stephanie “Squish” Rector; our Coffee Hour volunteers, Mark
Krivchenia and Norla Arnold; today's host, Dawn Hewitt, and greeters, Stephanie
“Squish” Rector and Joey Thomas; our pianist, Randall Kidder; our worship
leader, Martha McGovern; and our guest speaker, Nicole Livengood.

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

Announcements

No childcare attendants are available to work this morning. So sorry.
Parents can play with their kids in the nursery during the service, or kids
can stay with their parents and participate in the service.

Coffee Hour volunteers needed for the first Sunday of even months, the
fourth Sunday of even months, and third Sunday of odd months. That’s only
six times per year! If you can help, please talk to, email (
fuusm.office at gmail.com), call (740-373-1238) or text (812-320-3449) Dawn.


Saturday, August 9

   -

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

Sunday, August 10


   -

   9:30 a.m., New UU class, social hall: Social Justice …  Political
   Diversity
   -

   11 a.m., Sunday service in the SOCIAL HALL!
   -

   11 a.m., MOV Friends (Quakers) in RE Parlor


   -

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

Tuesday, August 12

   -

   2:30–6:30 p.m., Girl Scouts in social hall.

Wednesday, August 13

   -

   6 p.m., Women’s Group potluck, social hall. Diana Bonnell, Lori Flis,
   and Katie Blackwell will host

Saturday, August 16

   -

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

   10:30 a.m., Tai Chi reunion

Sunday, August 17

   -

   9:30 a.m., New UU class, social hall: FUUSM Congregation … Governance,
   Covenant & Participation.
   -

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

   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary: *Creativity as a Driving Force, *with
   LeeAnn Gallucci, guest presenter.
   -

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

   12:30ish, Green Sanctuary Committee meeting, RE parlor.

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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