[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, January 12, 2025

Fri Jan 10 12:37:44 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 snack to share for coffee hour. Fresh fruit, veggies, and
homemade contributions are encouraged and appreciated. Once again, we are
rich in odds and ends and store-bought cookies. Please help make FUUSM more
welcoming. Coffee Hour depends upon yummy contributions!

35 Years as a Minister’s Wife, Ellie Searle, guest speaker; Suzyn Mills,
worship leader.

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 leader

Prelude   “Aspens in January,” by Michael Gettel; Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting  Andrew Root

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn “This is My Song”    Lloyd Stone, words; Jean Sebelius,
music; #159
in Singing the Living Tradition

Story for All Ages  The Oak Tree       by The Fable Cottage

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   “Blessed Spirit of My Life,” Shelley Jackson Denham

Reflection      35 Years as a Minister’s Wife    Ellie Searl

*Closing Hymn  #311    “Let It Be a Dance”         Ric Masten, words and
music

in Singing the Living Tradition

Closing Words

Postlude   “Busca el Amor”   by Salvador Cardenal Barquero

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

Benediction and Extinguishing the Chalice

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

Thanks to our childcare staff, Owen Cejka, Lela Erb, and Levi Weppler; our
tech crew, Mike Bailey, Ralph Olander, and Meabh (Maeve) Daly; our Design &
Decoration team, led by Jane Tumas Serna; our Coffee Hour volunteers, Adeline
Bailey, Shari Ballantyne, and Beth Lepore; today’s host, Dawn Hewitt, and
greeter, Scott Lacey, our pianist, Randall Kidder; our worship leader, Suzyn
Mills; and our guest speaker, Ellie Searl.

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

Announcements

Saturday, January 11

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   3–5:30 p.m., Harrison/Griffith wedding, sanctuary (private)

Sunday, January 12

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary.
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   11 a.m., Quaker meeting (MOV Friends), RE parlor

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   Coffee hour!  Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m.
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   Afternoon, private group (Laura Delancy).

Tuesday, January 14

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   Noon: UU+ Women’s book group, Parkersburg Country Club.
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   3:30–6:30 p.m., Girl Scout Troop meets in the social hall.
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   6:30 p.m., Shari Ballantyne’s game night, social hall. You’re invited!

Wednesday, January 15

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   6 p.m., Men’s Group potluck, social hall. Kim McMichael will host.

Saturday, January 18

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   10:30 a.m., Tai chi reunion, social hall.

Sunday, January 19

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary. What Would MLK Say? Martha McGovern,
   worship leader.

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   Coffee hour and Community Service activity!  Social hall.
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   12:30-ish, p.m., Green Sanctuary Committee meeting postponed.

Monday, January 20: MLK Day, FUUSM office closed.

FUUSM Office hours:  Mon.,Tu., Th., Fri. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. (740) 373-1238,
fuusm.office at gmail.com.

To honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Marietta College is
sponsoring a week of service, January 18–25, and a kickoff MLK Celebration
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, January 18, at McDonough Auditorium. Please see
the poster in the social hall. Free and open to the public. Scan this QR
code for more information:

-- 
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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