[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of service, July 27, 2025:

Fri Jul 25 11:20:06 CDT 2025

*Big Questions: Deep Conversations*
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.*

“Listening is an everyday art and virtue, . . . Listening is more than
being quiet while others have their say. It is about presence as much as
receiving; it is about connection more than observing. Real listening is
powered by curiosity. It involves ... a willingness to ... let go of
assumptions and take in ambiguity. It is never in ‘gotcha’ mode.” Mindful
listeners want to understand the humanity behind the words of the other and
patiently summon their own best selves and their most generous words and
questions." —Better Conversations: A Starter Guide,On Being – Civil
Conversations Project

Welcome Song    “Whoever You Are” Hal Walker

Whoever you are, we welcome you.

Wherever you come from, we welcome you.

Whomever you love, we welcome you.

Welcome / Honoring Indigenous People    Martha McGovern, worship leader

Prelude   Two-part Invention in D-Major, No. 3,BWV 774, “Thesis”
(right-hand part alone), by Johann Sebastian Bach; Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting   #482 Jacob Trapp

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn #360 in Singing the Living Tradition, “Here We Have
Gathered,” verses 1–3; words: Alicia Carpenter; music: Genevan psalter

Story for All Ages  Listening with Our Ears and Hearts

Transition:  “Peace, Salaam, Shalom,” by Pat Humphries of Emma’s Revolution

Peace, Salaam, Shalom (four times)

Collection of Offerings

Offertory  Two-part Invention in D-Major, No. 3,BWV 774, “Antithesis”
(left-hand part alone), by Johann Sebastian Bach

Sharing and Listening in Pairs

1. Position yourselves to be in pairs with space between pairs.

2. You will each have time to be speaker and listener.

3. Determine who will go first by month of birth.

4. A bell will signal start, switch, stop.

5. Listener: Hear, understand, accept.

6. Speaker: Share turning point in your life—Choices, forces, decision,
outcomes

Prompt: Think of a turning point in your life. What choice or choices were
you faced with? What forces (spiritual, moral, ethical, practical) were in
play? What decision did you make? As you reflect, what were the outcomes,
short and long term?

*Closing Hymn  #318 in Singing the Living Tradition, “We Would Be One," words:
Samuel Anthony Wright; music: Jean Sibelius

Closing Words

Postlude Two-part Invention in D-Major, No. 3,BWV 774, “Synthesis” (both
parts working together), by Johann Sebastian Bach

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 Lela Erb for childcare; our tech crew, Mike Bailey and Ralph
Olander; our Design & Decoration team, Martha McGovern and Stephanie
“Squish” Rector; today’s collection counter, Lori Flis; our Coffee Hour
volunteers, Karen Binkley, Virginia Henthorn, and Mike Lang; today’s
host, Betsy
Kalter, and greeter, Scott Lacey; our pianist, Randall Kidder; and our
worship leader, Martha McGovern.

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

Announcements

Today

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   Coffee hour!  Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m.

Monday, July 28

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   7 p.m., Finance Committee meeting, Zoom

Tuesday, July 29

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   2:30–6:30 p.m., Girl Scouts in social hall.

Saturday, August 2

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   9 a.m. – 3 p.m., FUUSM Yard Sale, social hall and courtyard.

Sunday, August 3

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   9:30 a.m., New UU class, social hall: Religious Education …  Religious
   Diversity
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary.
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   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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