We reflect on our year together, remembering and honoring all that we
have shared and accomplished together. Together, we welcome all who
come, care for each other, and work for justice. From our newest members
and friends, to our longtime members, we are each involved in helping to
build and nurture our dear community.
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**Everyone is Welcome at Our Annual Meeting to follow this service.
Worship Service
Sunday, May 19th, 2024
Building and Nurturing Our Community –
A Year, Remembered!
Greeting Rev. Telos Whitfield
Board Welcome and Announcements Jamie Gibson
Remembrance Candle for Turner Lewis Peter Gibbons
Prelude Waltz in E major, Op. 39:5 Johannes Brahms Eva Greene, piano
Chalice Lighting – Nancy Reid-McKee, adptd. Janis Chaillou
We light this chalice, a beacon of our community holding and guiding us.
Our community knows no boundaries.
We are freer than we know when we release our expectations of what is needed for true community.
We are here together, bound by this, our light. May we see, may we hear and may we love each other deeply.
Let us celebrate the light we offer each other and the larger world!
Lighting our Children’s Chalice
We light this chalice to celebrate Unitarian Universalism.
We are the church of the open minds.
We are the church of the helping hands.
We are the church of the loving hearts.
Opening Words Rev. Telos
*Opening Hymn #361 Enter, Rejoice and Come In!
Time for All of Us – Together In Faith!
Sharing Our Covenant Ed Burke
We build our church on a foundation of love,
and covenant with one another:
to freely explore our values and honor our diversity
as a source of communal strength,
to accept responsibility for our individual acts
and promote justice and peace,
to celebrate the joys of discovery,
embracing the fullest measure of our humanity,
to communicate with kindness and support,
to serve with compassion and commitment,
to openly share our laughter and tears, and
to show reverence for the divine in all that is.
(Covenant adopted on April 17, 2001)
Anthem “River Song” poem by Henry David Thoreau, music by Tom Baehr
All Souls Choir with Tom Baehr, Director
Sharing a Poem Ed Burke
Reflections – A Year Remembered! Rev. Telos
Offering to be shared with Theatre Adventure!
Offertory Handel’s Largo In memory of Turner
Peter Gibbons, viola; Eva Greene, piano
Candles and Stones of Joy and Sorrow
*Hymn #128 For All That Is Our Life
Extinguishing our Chalice – words of Debra Burrell Janis Chaillou
We have basked in the warmth and beauty of this flame and this community.
We have honored and celebrated our year together.
As the chalice flame is extinguished, let us carry its glow within.
Let us kindle new sparks within these walls and beyond.
*Closing Circle Carry the flame of peace and love until we meet again (sung 2x)
Benediction
Refreshment and Conversation – Annual Meeting at 11:45am – All Are Welcome!
*Please rise in body or spirit