What’s UUp 1/25/26?

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What’s UUp February 1?
 

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.

Notice: We will not have Lunch after the Service this week.
It was been postponed until February 8.

Celebration of Life – 11:00am 
February 1

Becoming an Empathic Church —
Empathy as a Practice of Resistance

Speaker:
The Reverend Dr. Frank Woggon
Grounded in an understanding of the Jesus story as God’s empathic and liberating initiative towards humanity, the sermon makes the point that those, who live their faith by participating in God’s ongoing work of liberation and healing, need to develop practices of empathy. At a time when democracy is threatened by religious and political actors, such practices of empathy are practices of resistance against the exclusionary and oppressive agenda of white Christian nationalism.

About the Speaker:
The Reverend Dr. Frank Woggon is the director of Chaplaincy Services for UofL Health and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UofL School of Medicine. Ordained by the German Baptist Convention and endorsed by the Alliance of Baptists, he is an ACPE Certified Educator and a board-certified chaplain in the Association of Professional Chaplains. Frank is married to Kelley, a colleague in ministry and chaplaincy, and they have two adult daughters, Hannah and Erin, who shine bright in Durham, NC, and in Berlin, Germany.
 

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

Welcome      Matt

Introduction of our Guest Speaker         Peggy

Prelude          Ethan

Lighting the Chalice    Ben and Peggy
and the Black Lives Matter Candles

Opening Words      Rev. Dr. Frank Woggon

Hymn #1     May Nothing Evil Cross This Door      Ethan
Words: Louis Untermeyer; Music: Robert N. Quaille

Meditation

Moment for All Ages 

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)       Peggy
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         Ben and Peggy

Musical Response #95     There is More Love Somewhere          Ethan
Words and music: African-American hymn

Meditation and Common Prayer     Rev. Dr. Frank Woggon

Musical Response #155      Circle ‘Round For Freedom       Ethan
Words and music: Linga Hirschhorn

Invitation to Generosity           Ben

Offertory      Ethan

Sermon     Becoming an Empathetic Church       Rev. Dr. Frank Woggon
                Empathy as a Practice of Resistance

Hymn #131    Love Will Guide Us        Ethan
Words : Sally Rogers; music: Traditional
arr. Betty A. Wylder

Extinguishing the Chalice        Ben and Peggy

Closing Words          Rev. Dr. Frank Woggon

Postlude        Ethan

Invitations        Peggy