What’s UUp 11/30/25?

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What’s UUp November 30?
 

The Nursery is open for babies and pre-k from 9:30am-12:15pm on Sundays. Please complete one registration form for each child you would like to participate in Religious Exploration in the coming year. This includes the nursery.
 

To Do Sunday: See the Announcements for Details

  • Order a Poinsettia for Christmas Eve Vespers   (Bev)
  • Donate Gift Cards (or funds) for Children at Coleridge-Taylor (Mary)
  • Volunteer to Help at Vespers (Brian)
 

The Big Blue Basket – Please donate food for the food pantry at CLCM’s affiliate food pantry next door at Calvary Episcopal Church. Items especially needed are peanut butter, pasta and sauce, canned meat/fish, soups, breakfast cereal….but all items are gratefully accepted. Let’s fill that Big Blue Basket.
  • All are Welcome. Check-in begins at 9:45. Class meets in the Church Library at 10am.
  • November 30: What Is Abolitionism? Collective Liberation 101
Children’s RE  Classes  Contact Loren
Children begin in the sanctuary at 11:00, then have the Moment for Ages. They leave during the Song for the Children

Celebration of Life – 11:00am 
 
November 30
Breaking Bread Together: 
Community MinistrySpeaker: Linette Lowe
On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, when food and gratitude are on our minds, we invite you to join Linette Lowe, Executive Director of Central Louisville Community Ministries which is housed here at First U, for a mindful eating experience. Many of the neighbors we serve at CLCM are food insecure, and the recent government shutdown and SNAP crisis have only made things worse. Learn more about how the Community Ministries are helping and how we can hang onto gratitude in times like these.

Linette Lowe is the Executive Director of Central Louisville Community Ministries, which helps stabilize our neighbors in crisis, and is currently the President of the Association of Community Ministries. She completed her MDiv at LPTS in 2022 and is a UU candidate for ordination. She lives outside of Bloomfield, KY, with husband Jay, son Jaymeson, loyal dog Lucy, 10 hens, and a herd of cats. Baking and eating breads of all kinds is one of her most-loved spiritual practices.
 

For the zoom link, Click here. The Meeting ID is 4508929882 if you can’t attend in person.  You will not need a password. Contact the volunteer desk if you have trouble getting online.

The Order of Service (Bulletin)

Gathering Music              Ethan McCollum

Prelude      Ethan

Chime and Welcome                Jane Buckley

Lighting the Chalice and the Black Lives Matter Candle
Linette Lowe and Lady Vanessa

Call to Worship       Linette

Hymn #407    We’re Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table    Ethan
Words and music: Traditional

Moment for All Ages  A Hymn Sing      Linette

Song for Our Children   Ethan
Go in love, our hearts go with you.
Go in joy, our hopes go too.
Learn in love and grow in wisdom.
Shine your light in all you do.

Our Mission (unison)         Lady Vanessa
We are a church of reason and spirit,
that witnesses for progressive faith,
nurtures our community and transforms our world.
                                                           
Our Covenant (unison)      Lady Vanessa
Love is the spirit of this church, and service is its law.
This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace,
to seek the truth in love, and to help one another.

Joys and Sorrows        Linette and Lady Vanessa

Moment of Prayer and Meditation             Linette

Musical Response           Ethan

Invitation to Generosity          Jane

Offertory         Ethan

Homily   Breaking Bread Together: Community Ministry  Linette

Mindful Eating Ritual    Linette and Kathy Gapsis, CLCM Board Chair

Hymn #349      We Gather Together      Ethan
Words: Dorothy Caiger Senghas and Robert E. Senghas
Music: Adrian Valerius

Extinguishing the Chalice          Linette
We extinguish these flames, but not the light of truth,
the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment.
These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.

Closing Words         Linette

Postlude           Ethan

Benediction         Linette