[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of service for Sunday, April 5

Fri Apr 3 10:38:39 CDT 2026

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
*Enjoy Coffee Hour? Please bring a treat to share.* The FUUSM fridge has
lots of store-bought cookies, chips, pretzels, and some leftovers from
previous weeks, but we will gratefully accept all contributions, especially
fresh ones. Is it your turn to bring something? Thanks to all who help make
coffee hour warm and welcoming.

Easter: Resurrection, Mystery, Miracle, presented by the Rev. Evan Young

“I can see no way out but through.” —Robert Frost

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 & Honoring Indigenous Peoples      Suzyn Mills, worship associate

Prelude Introit: Cathedral Bells          by Randall Kidder, pianist

“Easter Hymn”                by Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff

Lighting Our Chalice, Rev. Evan Young

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn #267 in Singing the Living Tradition, “When Mary Through the
Garden Went,” words: Mary Coleridge; music: Severus Gastorius, adapted

First Reading from the Gospel According to Mark, chapter 16

Time for All Ages  Out of Nowhere               by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

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   “A New Beginning,” by Paul Cardall

Reflection      “Easter: Resurrection, Mystery, Miracle”       Rev. Evan
Young

Second Reading #504 in Singing the Living Tradition*, *“i thank You God,”
by e. e. cummings

in Singing the Living Tradition

*Closing Hymn #38 in Singing the Living Tradition, “Morning Has
Broken,”  words:
Eleanor Farjeon; Gaelic melody

Postlude   “Port of Mystery,” by Yanni

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

Extinguishing the Chalice, Rev. Evan

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

Thanks to: our childcare staff, Owen Cejka and Lela Erb; our tech crew, Mike
Bailey, Ralph Olander; our Design & Decoration team, Martha McGovern
and Stephanie
Thomas; today’s collection counter, Stephanie Thomas; today’s Coffee Hour
volunteers, George Banziger, Scott Lacey, Martha McGovern, and Betsy Kalter;
today’s host, Darryl Ting, and greeters, Dawn Hewitt and Rose Reed; today’s
worship associate, Suzyn Mills; our pianist, Randall Kidder; and our
minister, the Rev. Evan Young.

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

Announcements

*Sunday, April 5*

   - 9:30 a.m., *Choir practice*, sanctuary.
   - 11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary, Zoom and Facebook
   - Coffee hour!  Social hall. Ends at 1 p.m.

   -

   12:30 p.m., Egg hunt! For kids of all ages, FUUSM courtyard

Monday, April 6

   -

   2 p.m., Caring Committee meeting via Zoom.
   -

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

Tuesday, April 7

   -

   3:30–6:30, Girl Scouts in social hall
   -

   4:30, private use of RE parlor (Roger Kalter)

Wednesday, April 8

   -

   6 p.m., Women’s Group potluck, social hall. Cindy Brown will host.

Thursday, April 9

   -

   2:05 p.m., Service Auction Quartet practice, RE parlor.
   -

   5 p.m., MOV Indivisible, sanctuary.
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   6 p.m., Rosebud (Plant Sale) meeting, RE parlor. Newbies welcome.

Sunday, April 12

   -

   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
   -

   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary, Zoom and Facebook. Sustainability:
   Preserving Life, Enacting Hope. This service is inspired by the 2026
   theme of the National Women’s History Alliance: Leading the Change – Women
   Shaping a Sustainable Future. Worship leader: Martha McGovern, with Katy
   McDaniel and others.
   -

   11 a.m., MOV Friends meeting (Quakers), RE parlor.
   -

   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. Rev. Evan Young is available by appointment
remotely on Mondays and Thursdays from noon–3:30 p.m., and in his office in
the RE building onTuesdays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m.–3 p.m.,

(740) 590-3780,  fuusm.minister 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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