What’s UUp 11/2/25?

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  • Bring a photo or memento to place on the altar of remembrance.  Click here to learn about Sunday’s service.
  • Don’t forget Daylight Saving Time is ending: make sure your clocks turn back.
 

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.
See your Midweek Update for This Week’s Announcements
  • About Lunch? First or Second Week? Click here to find out what’s happening and the menu.
  • Adult (RE) contact Jim H. All are Welcome at 10am in the Church Library. (Check is begins at 9:45am.)
    November 2 – We will discuss the prospect of forming a standing Anti-Racism group: how can we utilize what we have learned from the past two instances we have participated in the Anti-Racism Challenge and branch out into doing those things at all times?
  • Children’s RE  Contact Loren.  Classes
    Children’s RE begins in the sanctuary at 11:00 with 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.

November 2: Celebration of Life – 11:00am 
 
Remembering Together:
Grief and Gratitude

Speaker: Rev. Liz Weber

Following last week’s service, we will continue to remember our loved ones who are gone. Bring a photo or memento to place on the altar of remembrance that we will build together. 
Come find solace for your grief, whether new or old, and gratitude for the life we share.
 

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        Jane Martin Buckley

Prelude                 Ethan

Lighting the Chalice           Peggy Muller
          and the Black Lives Matter Candle      

Opening Words      Rev. Liz Weber

Hymn #354         We Laugh, We Cry    Ethan
Words and music: Shelley Jackson Denham

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               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.

Building Our Altar of Remembrance                

Joys and Sorrows            Rev. Liz

Musical Response  #1002  Comfort Me         Ethan
Words and music: Mimi Bornstein-Doble

Meditation and Common Prayer          Rev. Liz

Musical Response        Ethan

Invitation to Generosity      Rev. Liz

Offertory       Breaths (Sweet Honey)         First U Choir
Words based on poem by Dirago Diop
Music: Ysaye Barnwell

Sermon   Rev. Liz
          Remembering Together: Grief and Gratitude            

Hymn #336     All My Memories of Love     Ethan
Words Anna Akhmatova
Music: Solesmes version of plainsong melody, adapted

Blessing the Altar

Extinguishing the Chalice      Peggy
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    Peace     First U Choir
Music: Ethan James McCollum; words: Sara Teasdale

Benediction         Rev. Liz

About Lunch …  
This Sunday is the first Sunday of the month, a time we normally enjoy a meal together after the service. But before this week, a repair was needed in order to use the kitchen. A part was ordered for the repair. Unfortunately the part did not come in in time to make the repair. And so, “First” Sunday lunch will happen on the second Sunday, November 9th.

Join us for lunch in the social hall after the service on the second Sunday. The suggested donation is $5, and first time visitors are our guests.

Menu: Texas Straw Hats (a version of tacos) and Mexican Hot Chocolate; Snickerdoodles.