[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service for Sunday, Dec. 28: Fire Ceremony

Fri Dec 26 12:18:52 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 tasty 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 community experience. Volunteers (like you)
make it happen.

Fire Ceremony

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 Nancy Luthy, worship leader

Prelude “Wake Now My Senses,” words: Thomas J.S. Mikelson; traditional
Irish melody

Chalice Lighting  “Out of the Flames of Fear,”  by Sara Eileen LaWall

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn #350 in Singing the Living Tradition, “The Ceaseless Flow of
Endless Time”   words:  John Andrew Storey;  music: African American
spiritual

Responsive Reading #544 in Singing the Living Tradition, “New Year’s Day,” by
Kathleen McTigue

Special Music  “Prometheus,” by Dan Layman-Kennedy, son of performer LeeAnn
Gallucci

Reading  “The Sky,” by Becky Hemsley, read by Suzyn Mills

Time for All Ages  The Brave Little Firefly,  by The Fable Forest

Sending Song #118 in Singing the Living Tradition, “This Little Light of
Mine.” African American Spiritual

This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.

Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.

Collection of Offerings

Offertory   “For All That Is Our Life”  words: Bruce Findlow; music:
Patrick L. Rickey

Performed by the Chancel Choir of the First Unitarian Church of Oakland

Fire Ceremony

West (Water): Lloyd Elliott

North (Wind/Intention): Judy Segall

East (Oil): Gary Hamilton

South (Fire/Release): Diana Bonnell

Postlude   “Great Balls of Fire! ” by Jack Hammer and Otis Blackwell; Randall
Kidder, pianist

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

Extinguishing the Chalice  anonymous

Proceed to the Fire Bowl outside the Main Entrance

***  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, Jim
Reed; today’s Coffee Hour volunteers, Sally Allen and Martha McGovern;
today’s host, Adeline Bailey, and greeter, Scott Lacey; guest musician LeeAnn
Gallucci; service assistants Suzyn Mills, Lloyd Elliott, Judy Segall, Gary
Hamilton, and Diana Bonnell; firemasters Joey and Stephanie Thomas;  and
today’s worship leader, Nancy Luthy.

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

Announcements

Today, 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

Tuesday, Dec. 30

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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)

Thursday, Jan. 1: Happy New Year!  FUUSM OFFICE CLOSED

Sunday, Jan. 4

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service: “Looking & Moving Forward,” presented by our
   new minister,  Rev. Evan Young!
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   12:15 p.m., Coffee hour! 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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