What’s UUp 5/3/26?

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Join Us for a Special First Sunday Lunch

A special lunch celebrating Earth Month will be served this Sunday after the service. In consultation with the Seventh Principle Team, we’ll serve a lunch made with as many locally-sourced ingredients as possible. The menu includes grits from Weisenberger Mills in Midway, KY topped by seasonal vegetables, and a fresh spring salad. The finale is a frozen lemon dessert.

Adult RE on May 3

– Leadership at First U. We’re going to look at the dizzying number of ways everyone is invited to shape the course we take together as a faith community.  All are Welcome: Members, friends, visitors, curious people, and people lost in the building are all welcome. Check in begins at 9:45. Class meets in the Church Library at 10am.
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 3 at 11:00am
 
Join us May 3
Love Letters to the Future
Rev. Liz Weber with
the 7th Principle Team

What inspires us to work towards climate justice? How are our lives interconnected with the life of our planet? What would we say to the earth and to those who will come after us if we were to write love letters to the future?
Art by Presentation Academy students
Join Rev. Liz and the 7th Principle Team for this service inspired by ministers along Colorado’s Front Range and by Joanna Macy.
 

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     Jamie McGloin-King

Prelude       Ethan           

Lighting the Chalice & the Black Lives Matter Candle
Kelli Selzer and Roger Ohlman
          Words by Valerie Schwartz

Opening Words         Rev. Liz Weber

Hymn #175       We Celebrate the Web of Life    Ethan
Words: Alicia S. Carpenter; music: Melchior Vulpius

Moment for All Ages     Rev. Liz

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)          Roger
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            Rev. Liz

Musical Response               Ethan

Meditation and Common Prayer      Rev. Liz

Musical Response            Ethan

Invitation to Generosity                 Rev. Liz

Offertory         What A Wonderful World            First U Choir
Words and music: Bob Thiele and George David Weiss
Arranged Russ Robinson

Sermon        Love Letters to the Future       Rev. Liz

Interlude #377    In Greening Lands Begins the Song        First U Choir
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Reflection    Green Sanctuary and the 7th Principle Team
Kathy Gapsis and Margaret Pearce

Hymn #1064            Blue Boat Home              Ethan
Words: Peter Mayer; music: Roland Hugh Prichard

Extinguishing the Chalice     Marka Silvarosen and Margaret
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               Ethan

Invitations          Rev. Liz