[Fuusm-l] FUUSM Order of service for Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026: Looking and Moving Forward

Fri Jan 2 10:53:56 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*. All
contributions, *especially
fresh ones*, will be gratefully received. Yummy treats (and coffee) are an
important part of our Sunday community experience. Volunteers (like you)
make it happen.

Looking and Moving Forward, with our minister, Rev. Evan Young

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning, but a going on.” —Hal Borland

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  Rev. Evan Young, worship leader

Prelude “Years of Pilgrimage,” Franz Liszt, composer; Randall Kidder,
pianist

Chalice Lighting      by Lois Van Leer

We light this chalice on the brink of a new year,
Letting go of what has been,
Open and hopeful for what may come,
Renewed, restored, ready
To live Life fully anew.
May we move forward with intention.

*Please rise in body or spirit.

*Opening Hymn #194 in Singing the Living Tradition, “Faith Is a Forest,” words:
Shelley Jackson Denham; music: Chinese folk song

Reading by Anaïs Nin

Time for All Ages  The Weight of the Glass*, * a parable

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   “Now’s the Time,” by Charlie Parker

Reflection      Looking and Moving Forward,  Rev. Evan Young

*Closing Hymn #396 in Singing the Living Tradition, “I Know This Rose Will
Open,” words and music by Mary E. Grigolia

Announcements

Closing Words by T. S. Eliot

Postlude “New Era Rag,” James Scott

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: 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, Jim
Reed; today’s Coffee Hour volunteers, Joan Coffey, Nancy Luthy, and Cathy
Rees; today’s host, Darryl Ting, and greeters, Jim and Rose Reed; 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

It’s Almost Time to Turn In Guest At Your Table Donations

Next Sunday, Jan. 11, is the final day for our Guest at Your Table—UUA
service project. Envelopes are available for a cash donation or a check.
Please make checks payable to UUSC  and write GAYT on the Memo Line. Thank
you for your generosity. — Nancy Luthy

Sunday, Jan. 4

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary.
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   9:30 a.m., Today’s Issues discussion.  RE building parlor
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, Looking & Moving Forward, with Rev. Evan
   Young (see order of service above)

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

Monday, Jan. 5

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   1 p.m., fire inspection with Captain Steve Hill
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   2 p.m., Caring Committee meeting via Zoom
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   6:30 p.m., FUUSM Board of Trustees meeting, RE parlor

Tuesday, Jan. 6

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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, Jan. 7

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   11 a.m., Worship & Music Committee meeting, RE parlor.
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   5:30-8 p.m. MOV Indivisible (Lori Flis)

Sunday, Jan. 11

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   9:30 a.m., Choir practice, sanctuary
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   11 a.m., Sunday service, sanctuary: Involving All for Community Strength.

   Tiffany Neill, superintendent of the Washington County Board of
   Developmental Disabilities, will provide the reflection.
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   11 a.m., MOV Friends, Quaker meeting, RE parlor
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   12:15 p.m., Coffee hour, social hall

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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