[Fuusm-l] FUUSM order of service for Christmas Eve

[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

All-Ages Candlelight Service

A Prayer: Enlarge our hearts and understanding so that we may see clearly
and all become ministers of Love brought near.

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   Martha McGovern, worship leader

Prelude “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” by Walter Kent and Buck Ram; Randall
Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting     by Christine Robinson

Advent Wreath Lighting

Special Music “Candlelight Canon,” words & music by Andy Beck; performed by
the FUUSM Choir, under the direction of Martha Webster

Time for All Ages  The Christmas Owl, by Ellen Kalish & Gideon Sterer;
illustrated
by Ramona Kaulitzki


ANOTHER STORY: The Christmas Story a combination of Luke 1: 26–38, Luke
2:1–20, and Matthew 2:1–1; Sources: Good News for Modern Man (1966), and
The Holy Bible, Revised Standard Version, 1952

Hymn  “Away in the Manger,” first verse only, words: Martin Luther;  music:
German folk song

Special Music  “Angels We Have Heard on High,”    words: Earl Bowman
Marlatt; music: French carol; performed by Nohl Johnson and the FUUSM choir


Collection of Offerings

Offertory   “We Three Kings,” words & music:  John Henry Hopkins Jr.

Reflection      A Change of Heart  Martha McGovern


CANDLELIGHT CEREMONY

Directions: In the ceremony, two light carriers will orchestrate the
lighting of the candles by moving pew by pew from front to back. At each
pew, they will pause and share their light with the first person on the
aisle, saying, “I share my light with you.” Please wait until they come to
your pew and then “pass the light” from person to person along the pew.

Passing the Light

*Please stand as  you are willing and able

*Singing in the Candlelight #225 in Singing the Living Tradition; “O Come,
O Come, Emmanuel” words: Latin c. 9th century; music: adapted by Thomas
Helmore

*A Reading    “Blessed Are You Who Bear the Light” (modified), by Jan
Richardson

Please be seated and turn off your candles.

Extinguishing the Chalice & Benediction

Going Forth in Song “Peace, Salaam, Shalom”


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

Thanks to: our tech crew, Mike Bailey, Ralph Olander, and intern Griffin
Jeffery; our Design & Decoration team, Martha McGovern and Stephanie Thomas;
tonight’s collection counter, George Banziger; tonight’s host, Darryl Ting, and
greeter, Elaine Barr; the FUUSM Choir and its director, Martha Webster; guest
musician Nohl Johnson; bearers of the light Joey and Stephanie Thomas; and
tonight’s worship leader, Martha McGovern.

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


Announcements

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
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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.

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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