[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of Service for Sunday, Feb. 8

Fri Feb 6 11:08:20 CST 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
*Please bring a tasty treat to share at coffee hour*, unless you're happy
with leftovers. All contributions, *especially fresh ones*, will be
gratefully received. Yummy treats (and coffee) are an important part of our
Sunday experience. Volunteers (like you) make it happen.

Completion: An Interfaith Story for World Interfaith Harmony Week, with MJ
Ebenhack, D., Min, guest speaker

“To worship God is nothing other than to serve the people. It does not need
rosaries, prayer carpets, or robes. All peoples are members of the same
body, created from one essence. If fate brings suffering to one member, the
others cannot stay at rest.” —Saadi, a Persian poet, author

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, Martha McGovern, worship leader

Prelude “Alhamdulillah” (“All Praise Is Due to Allah”)   words & music: William
Allaudin Mathieu: Randall Kidder, pianist;

Chalice Lighting, words of Rev. Dr. Rebekah A. Savage

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn #193 in Singing the Living Tradition, “Our Faith Is but a
Single Gem” (verses 1–3), words: John Andrew Storey; music: The Southern
Harmony

Time for All Ages  An Ocean in One Drop: The Tale of Hajar in Hajj, by
Miriam Hakim; illustrated by Layla Aldubaisi & Hameedah Hamadah

Sending Song  “Peace, Salaam, Shalom,” by Emma’s Revolution

Peace, salaam, shalom (sing four times)

Collection of Offerings

Offertory   “Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life,” by Ralph Vaughn Williams

Readings Genesis 16:1–15 and Genesis 21:1–21

Reflection  Completion, MJ Ebenhack, D. Min., guest speaker

*Closing Hymn #1058 in Singing the Journey, “Be Ours a Religion,” words:
Theodore Parker; music: Thomas Benjamin

Closing Words

Postlude   “Immortal, Invisible” (“Caniadau y Cyssegr”), by John Roberts

Announcements

Facebook Live ends

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

Extinguishing the Chalice & Benediction  “For Alex Jeffrey Pretti —
Murdered by I.C.E. January 24, 2026,” by Amanda Gorman

***  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, Virginia
Henthorn; today’s Coffee Hour volunteers, Mark Krivchenia, Linda
Lewis, and Betsy
Liller; today’s host, Dawn Hewitt, and greeters, Joey and Stephanie Thomas; our
pianist, Randall Kidder; our minister, the Rev. Evan Young; today’s worship
leader, Martha McGovern; and today’s guest presenter, Dr. MJ Ebenhack.

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

Announcements

Feb. 20: Open Mic Night, social hall! Doors open at 6 p.m.; entertainment
starts at 6:30. Cost is a $10 per person donation in exchange for cheap
wine, cheap snacks and the cheapest entertainment in town! So, dust off
that banjo, accordion, or bagpipe, polish those tap shoes, pen that poem,
or otherwise get your act together! Nancy Lee is in charge.

Saturday, Feb. 7

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   2–7 p.m., Paid private use of social hall for baby shower.

Sunday, Feb. 8

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

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

Tuesday, Feb. 10

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   Noon, UU+ Women's Book Group, Parkersburg Country Club
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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)

Wednesday, Feb. 11

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   6 p.m., Women’s Group potluck, social hall. Lela Erb and Sally Allen
   will host.

Sunday, Feb. 15

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary: Love Today: Principles, Shared
   Values, and Unitarian Universalism, presented by the Rev. Evan Young
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   12:15 p.m., Coffee hour, social hall
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   12:30ish, Green Sanctuary Committee meeting, RE parlor

Monday, Feb. 16: Presidents 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. Rev. Evan Young is available by appointment:
remotely on Mondays and Thursdays from noon–3:30 p.m., and in his office
Tuesdays 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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