What’s UUp 5/25/25?

What’s UUp Sunday, May 25?

 

  • Join us at the Poetry Slam after the service during Coffee Hour.
  • Sign Postcards to Support Clean Energy
    The 7th Principle Team will have postcards available Sunday and for the next few weeks for your signature to urge your metro councilperson to include $500,000 in next year’s budget for meeting the city’s goals for clean, renewable energy sources.
  • 10am: Adult Religious Exploration
    May 25 The Kids Are (Not) Alright: Mental Health for Gen Alpha
    May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we’re going to have a conversation about the mental health challenges that young people – and their parents, their grands, their teachers, and other caregivers – face in a life mediated by tech, a world that’s in permacrisis, and a general sense of overload. We’re going to learn about destigmatizing the act of seeking help, and consider how this is not the same world many of us have navigated – as kids or as caregivers.
Save the Date: Annual Meeting June 1

Celebration of Life 11am in the Sanctuary

 

Join Us May 25

Imagination: The Gift of Poetry

Speakers:
The Poets of the Congregation
 

We will be honoring verse on May 25 during the service, “Imagination: the Gift of Poetry.” Poetry paints a picture of reality by touching our emotions. It can peel away familiar layers of our own lives to show new complexities through the poet’s own experience. For the poet, it can be both self expression and a way of processing the world that, when shared, helps other people process and understand the world as well, and even re-enchant it.  During this service, a handful of poets from our very own congregation will be sharing their poems. There will also be a Poetry Slam during the coffee hour after the service!

 

For the zoom linkClick 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              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