[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of service for Dec. 21: " The Best Christmas Pageant Ever!"

Fri Dec 19 12:13:30 CST 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 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. (Read more about it in the calendar below.)

JOY: The Best(Interactive, No-Rehearsal) Christmas Pageant Ever!

written by UU minister Rev. Norman Allen

“I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.” —Luke
2:10

Welcome Song “Enter, Rejoice and Come In”     Louise Ruspini, words & music

Enter, rejoice, and come in.

Today will be a joyful day,

Enter, rejoice, and come in.

Welcome & Honoring Indigenous Peoples, Adeline Bailey, worship leader

Prelude “Away in a Manger”, Pixabay content by Maksym Dudchyk, from Christmas
Music: Bells

Lighting the Chalice and Advent Candles      words of the Rev. Rosemary
Morrison

Collection of Offerings

Offertory   “Ode to Joy” (remix), Ludwig van Beethoven, Randall Kidder,
pianist

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn #253 in Singing the Living Tradition, “O Come, All Ye
Faithful,” John Francis Wade, words and music

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Guest stars Shari Ballantyne, Suzyn Mills, Stephanie Thomas

Narrator Adeline Bailey

Villagers/shepherds/animals Thaddeus Shea, Dawn Hewitt

Other special roles  Volunteers from the congregation, PLEASE!

Scene One: “What’s Up With That?”

Hymn #246, in Singing the Living Tradition, “O Little Town of
Bethlehem,” words:
Phillips Brooks, music: Lewis H. Redner

Scene Two: “You Try It!”

Hymn #237, in Singing the Living Tradition, “The First Nowell,” words:
English carol; music: William Sandy’s Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern

Scene Three: “What’s That Noise?”

Hymn #239, in Singing the Living Tradition, “Go Tell It on the
Mountain,” African
American spiritual

Scene Four: “Talking with Angels”

Hymn #231, in Singing the Living Tradition, “Angels We Have Heard on
High,” words:
Earl Bowman Marlatt, music: French carol

Scene Five: “Hearts Full of Love”

Hymn #245, in Singing the Living Tradition, “Joy to the World,” words:
Isaac Watts; music: Methodist Collection of Tunes

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

Benediction/Extinguishing the Chalice adapted from a 2023 sermon by Rev.
Beth Dana for the First UU of Dallas, TX

***  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, George
Banziger; today’s Coffee Hour volunteers, Susan and Tom Henderson and Judy
Segall; today’s host, Mike Lang, and greeter, Scott Lacey; today’s worship
leader, Adeline Bailey, and to all who participated in the pageant.

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

Announcements

Saturday, Dec. 20: Confluence content due

   -

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

Sunday, Dec. 21

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

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   12:15 p.m., Coffee Hour, social hall ends at 1 p.m. It's a festivus
   miracle! We've also got a bag of pretzels, several packages of store-bought
   cookies, plus odds and ends left over from two weeks ago. So, there's
   enough food for a not very exciting coffee hour spread. Please bring
   something fresh if you can.
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   12:30ish, Green Sanctuary Committee meeting, RE parlor

Monday, Dec. 22

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   6:30 p.m., Finance Committee meeting via Zoom.

Tuesday, Dec. 23: Festivus

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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. 24

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   7 p.m., Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Thursday, Dec. 25: Christmas, FUUSM Office closed

Friday, Dec. 26: Kwanzaa begins

Sunday, Dec. 28

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary; Annual Fire Ceremony
   -

   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.

Staff Gifts

Today is 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. Our staff includes Owen Cejka
and Lela Erb, 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!

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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