Gathering Music Ethan McCollum
Chime and Welcome Jamie McGloin-King
Prelude Ethan
Lighting the Chalice and Black Lives Matter Candles
Laura Roberts and Valerie Schwartz
Opening Words How to Be a Poet by Wendell Berry
Hymn #38 Morning Has Broken Ethan
Words: Eleanor Farjeon; Gaelic melody
Moment for All Ages Loren Crawford
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.
Opening Remarks
Our Mission and Covenant
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
Musical response
Meditation on Memorial Day
Poetry Offering I
Patti Lister, Maureen Taylor, and David Leightty
Invitation to Generosity
Offertory
Poem Offering II
Michael Tee and Kathie Johnson
Hymn #326 Let All the Beauty We Have Known
Words: Dana McLean Greely
Music: English melody, adapted and harmony by Ralph Vaughn Williams
Extinguishing the Chalice
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.
Postlude
Benediction