[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of service for Sunday, Dec. 14

[Dawn Hewitt, FUUSM office assistant]

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 treat to share at coffee hour*. All contributions,
especially fresh ones, will be gratefully received. Yummy treats (and
coffee) are an important part of our Sunday tradition. Volunteers (like
you) make it happen.

Illuminations at Hanukkah, Rev. Hilary Krivchenia, guest speaker


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 Suzyn Mills, worship associate

Prelude “In My Native Country”   by Edvard Grieg: Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn #392 in Singing the Living Tradition, “Hineh Mah Tov,” Hebrew
round for Psalm 133:1

Lighting the Advent Candle for Peace

Time for All Ages Latke Who Couldn’t Stop Screaming,  by Lemony
Snicket; illustrated
by Lisa Brown

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   from Songs Without Words, by Felix Mendelssohn

Readings by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772-1810)

         by Abraham Joshua Heshel from his book, God in Search of Man

Reflection     Illuminations at Hanukkah, Rev. Hilary Krivchenia, guest
speaker

*Closing Hymn #399 in Singing the Living Tradition, “Vine and Fig
Tree,” traditional
Hebrew tune for Micah 4:3–4

Benediction

Postlude   “Bring Out the Festal Bread,” traditional Hebrew folk tune

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

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, Ralph Olander, and intern Griffin Jeffery; our Design & Decoration
team, Martha McGovern and Stephanie Thomas; today’s collection
counter, Stephanie
Thomas; today’s Coffee Hour volunteers, Mark Krivchenia, Linda Lewis, and Betsy
Liller; today’s host, Dawn Hewitt, and greeters, Joey and Stephanie
Thomas; today’s
worship associate, Suzyn Mills; and today’s guest presenter, Rev. Hilary
Krivchenia.

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

Announcements

Staff Gifts

Next Sunday, Dec. 21, will be the last day we’ll be collecting for staff
holiday gifts. Please write checks to FUUSM with “staff gifts” in the memo
line, and place in the labeled box in the entryway or social hall, or mail
to the FUUSM office. Our staff includes Lela Erb and Owen Cejka, childcare
attendants; Wendy Frye Paskawych, building steward; Martha Webster, choir
director; Randall Kidder, pianist; and Dawn Hewitt, office assistant.
Thanks to those who have already given!

Saturday, Dec. 13

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   9:30 a.m., Tai Chi reunion, social hall.
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   11 a.m., Celebration of Life for Nancy Novak via Zoom.

Sunday, Dec. 14: Hanukkah begins at sunset, ends at sunset on Dec. 21

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary; Third Sunday of Advent: Peace; What
   Is Hanukkah? Rev. Hilary Krivchenia, guest speaker.
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   11 a.m., MOV Friends, Quaker meeting, RE parlor
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   12:15 p.m., Coffee Hour, social hall, ends at 1 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 16

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   3:30–6:30, Girl Scouts in social hall
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   4:30, private use of RE parlor (Roger Kalter)

Wednesday, Dec. 17

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   6 p.m., Men’s Group potluck, social hall. Gil Moore will host.

Saturday, Dec. 20: Confluence content due

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   8 a.m. – 1 p.m., private use of social hall (Willa O’Neill)

Sunday, Dec. 21: Winter solstice

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary, fourth Sunday of Advent: Joy, “The
   Best Christmas Pageant Ever!”
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   12:15 p.m., Coffee Hour, social hall ends at 1 p.m.
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   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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