What’s UUp 12/14/25?

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What’s UUp December 14?
 

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.

Upcoming December Services

To Do Sunday: See the Announcements for Details

  • Volunteer to Help at Vespers (email Connections)
  • Adult (RE) Adult Religious Exploration  All are Welcome. Check-in begins at 9:45. Class meets in the Church Library at 10am. December 14: Racketeers and Rapists of Renown
  • 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
  • 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.

Celebration of Life – 11:00am 
 

December 14

Like a Phoenix:
The 40th Anniversary of the Fire

Speakers: Rev. Liz Weber and team

Forty years ago, the church building was destroyed in a fire. Join us for a service remembering that time, the rebuilding we did, and where we are now.
 

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

Chime and Welcome         Tim Raymond

Prelude     Ethan          

Lighting the Chalice and the Black Lives Matter Candle
 Donna Corbett

Opening Words        Rev. Liz

Hymn #308      The Blessings of the Earth and Sky     Ethan
Words: Kenneth L. Patton
Music: Johann Hermann Schein

Moment for All Ages        Rev. Liz

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 and Covenant (unison)        Donna
We are a church of reason and spirit,
that witnesses for progressive faith,
nurtures our community and transforms our world.

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          Rev. Liz

Musical Response #1009    Meditation on Breathing       Ethan
Words and music: Sarah Dan Jones

Meditation and Common Prayer         Rev. Liz

Musical Response       Ethan

Invitation to Generosity          Rev. Liz

Offertory         Ethan

Reflections on the Fire
Jay Dolan, John Grossman, Claudia Runge, Carol Tobe

Lessons from the Fire          Rev. Liz

Musical Interlude          Ethan

Blessing the Sanctuary

Hymn #318            We Would Be One         Ethan
Words: Samuel Anthony Wright; Music: Jean Sibelius

Extinguishing the Chalice     Donna
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          Rev. Liz

Postlude            Ethan

Invitations          Rev. Liz