[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service, Oct. 5: Pluralism, Power, and Penguins

Fri Oct 3 11:31:40 CDT 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

Imagine, if you will, a Coffee Hour with coffee, yes, but many assorted
leftovers, and plain, dry crackers. Would you feel happy and welcome?
Actually, there's one new package of cookies, but otherwise, many assorted
bits and pieces of leftovers. Please bring a fresh, yummy food item to
share.

Pluralism, Power, and Penguins
Pete Mather, of the Athens UU Fellowship, will be the guest speaker.

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 Betsy Liller, worship leader

Prelude “Prayer for Mercy,” from Music for the Piano Volume III, Hymns,
Prayers, and Rituals, by Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann
 Randall Kidder, pianist

Chalice Lighting  “With Hope”  Connie Woodbread

*Please rise in body or spirit.

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

Time for All Ages  Blue Penguin, written and illustrated by Petr
Horacek; introduced
by Anna Jinja Mather

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   Four Sabras,  by Leonard Bernstein (ca.1950s)

No.I. Ilana, “The Dreamer”

No.II. Idele, “The Chassidele” (means "little Jew" in Hebrew)

(Sabra, tsabar in Hebrew, refers to a Jewish person born in Israel, or
before 1948 in Palestine. Each Sabra refers to a vignette or portrait of a
different fictitious Israeli child.)

Reading #580 “The Task of the Religious Community”         Mark Morrison
Reed

Reflection      Pluralism, Power, and Penguins     Pete Mather guest speaker

*Closing Hymn “Blue Boat Home,” words:  Peter Mayer, music: Roland Huge
Prichard; Pete Mather, guitar; #1064 In Singing the Journey

Postlude   Four Sabras  Leonard Bernstein

No.III. Yosi, “The Jokester”

No.IV. Dina, “The Tomboy Who Weeps Alone”

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

Extinguishing the Chalice   Bishop Desmond Tutu: “Differences are not
intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to
realize our need of one another.”

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

Thanks to our childcare staff, Owen Cejka and Lela Erb; our tech crew, Mike
Bailey and Ralph Olander; our Design & Decoration team, Martha
McGovern and Stephanie
“Squish” Rector; today’s collection counter, Virginia Henthorn; our Coffee
Hour volunteers, George Banziger and Betsy Kalter; today’s hosts, Darryl
and Cynthia Ting; today’s worship leader, Betsy Liller; and to today’s
guest presenter, Pete Mather, and story leader, Anna Jinga Mather.

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

Announcements

Please Join the Coffee Hour Crew!

Coffee Hour volunteers are urgently needed for the fourth Sunday of even
months (starting Oct. 24); the third Sunday of odd months (starting Nov.
16),and the first Sunday of even months (starting Dec. 7). If you can help,
please contact Dawn, the church lady.

Today

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    Coffee hour!  Social hall.
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   3 p.m., Green Sanctuary 2030 team in RE parlor

Monday, Oct. 6

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   6:30 p.m., FUUSM Board of Trustees meeting, RE parlor

Tuesday, Oct. 7

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   2:30–6:30 p.m., Girl Scouts in social hall.
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   7 p.m., Washington County for Safe Drinking Water organizing committee
   meeting, social hall.  (Dawn Hewitt)

Wednesday, Oct. 8

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   6 p.m., Women’s Group potluck, social hall

Sunday, Oct. 12

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
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   9:30 a.m., Buildings & Grounds Committee meeting, RE parlor and Zoom.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary.
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   11 a.m., MOV Friends (Quaker) meeting, RE parlor
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   Coffee hour!  Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 13: Indigenous Peoples 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.

-- 
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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