What’s UUp 5/24/26?

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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.

Join Us Sunday, May 24 at 11:00am
 

A Reflection on Music
with Ethan McCollum and Friends

This will be a music-themed service! Come hear various musicians from our congregation play and sing a variety of tunes throughout the service as we learn about and experience the power of music.
Music can make us feel a variety of emotions, energize or calm us, and connect us with total strangers. This service will explore how music does that, and why it is so important in our lives.
 

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

Hymn #346   Ethan
          Come, Sing a Song with  Me
Words and music: Carolyn McDade

Welcome       Kathy Thackeray and Ethan

Lighting the Chalice & the Black Lives Matter Candle
Pat Allison and Michael Tee

Opening Words      Ethan

Hymn #39     Ethan
Bring, O Morn, Thy Music
Words: William Channing Gannett
music: John Bacchus Dykes

Moment for All Ages   Children’s Hymn Sing   Ethan

A 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)  Pat Allison, Michael Tee
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   Pat Allison, Michael Tee

Musical Response  #368      Ethan
Now Let Us Sing  
Words and music: anonymous

Moment of Prayer and Meditation #395    Ethan
Sing and Rejoice
Words and music: Traditional round

Invitation to Generosity      Pat

Offertory     Vocalise    Susie Onwood and Ethan
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Homily     A Reflection on Music    Ethan

Special Music
Theme from Love Story  – Jane Martin Buckley
Music: Francis Lai

Flow Gently, Sweet Afton   –  First Unitarian Church Band
Words: Robert Burns; music: Jonathan E. Spilman

Basin Street Blues  –  First Unitarian Church Band
Spencer Williams and Louie Armstrong

Swingin’ Blues  – Cassandra Culin, Ethan
Music by Moe Koffman

Song from a Secret Garden  –  Jim Fry, Ethan
Secret Garden; arr. Jim Fry

Make Them Hear You  (from “Ragtime”) – First U Choir
Words: Lynn Ahrens
music: Stephen Flaherty, arr: Jeff Funk

Hymn #108     Ethan
          My Life Flows On in Endless Song  
Words: early Quaker song; music: American gospel tune

Extinguishing the Chalice      Ethan and Pat
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         Ethan

Hymn #368  Ethan
          Now Let Us Sing   
Words and music: anonymous

Recessional        First U. Church Band
          Basin Street Blues