What’s UUp 3/8/26

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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.
 

Don’t be late!

“Spring Forward!”

2026 Stewardship Pledge Drive March 1-31

The Stewardship Committee is welcoming our Friends and Members to the 2026 Pledge Drive. Our theme this year is “Growing the Light.” This is a time of giving and connecting. Our church’s goal is 100% participation in pledging from Members and Friends, with a total of $250,000 raised for our budget next year.  We are so very grateful for every one of you!

  • On the form (electronic or printed), there is a spot for “total annual pledge.” Please put the total you plan to commit for the year.
    (Do not divide into quarterly or monthly amount for this field.)
  • We are off to a strong start with 10 individuals or families pledging before official canvassing started!

Celebration of Life – 11:00am 
From Suffrage
to the Living Covenant
by the First U Women’s Alliance

March is Women’s History Month, and we begin it with an introduction to our own Women’s Alliance of First Unitarian Church.
 

From its beginnings as the Ladies Sewing Society to its embrace of all persons who identify as female, members will share the ways the Alliance has committed to “our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love, and to help one another.”
 

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             Devi Pierce

Prelude          Ethan          

Lighting the Chalice and the Black Lives Matter Candle       
Nancy MacPherson and Peggy Muller

Opening Words            Nancy
We Come to Love a Church
by Andrew C. Kennedy

Hymn #109       Ethan
We Come Marching, Marching                                  
Words: James Oppenheim; Music: Caroline Kohlsaat

Moment for All Ages      Little Dreamers:   Loren Crawford
          Visionary Women Around the World                                                                  
Written and Illustrated by Vashti Harrison

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)           Beverly Daly
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           Nancy and Peggy

Musical Response #95             Ethan
There is More Love Somewhere
   An African-American Hymn

Common Prayer and Meditation           Beverly
          A Prayer for the Women’s Movement
Written by ChatGPT

Musical Response        Ethan

Invitation to Generosity              Devi

Offertory     Ethan

Sermon       From Suffrage to the Living Covenant
Nancy, Suzanne Meeks and Margaret Pearce

Hymn #1026           Ethan
If Every Woman in the World
Words: Karen MacKay; Music: Nancy Nordlie

Extinguishing the Chalice         Nancy and 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        Nancy
          Written by Priscilla Murdock

Postlude       Ethan

Invitation           Nancy