What’s UUp 7/19/26?

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Children’s RE Summer Fun – Build a Fort!

There’s a change in the schedule this week. We’ll be building a fort in the Raccoon Room and have a spooky time. Begin in the sanctuary at 11am and go to RE after the Song for the Children.

CLCM School Supply Drive

Don’t forget to bring your donations for the CLCM colllection of school supplies for students in our district. See your Midweek Update if you need suggestions.

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, July 19 at 11:00am
 

Pride and Pridefulness

Guest Speaker:
Matt Livers
 

No, this is not a pun on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. In this sermon, Matt Livers will discuss how seeing a loved one’s shared post on Facebook got him thinking more about the word pride with all its various meanings and implications.

Pride is a powerful word with the ability to build community or to harm it. Do we, as community members, have the courage to love ourselves and celebrate our accomplishments as one meaning of pride suggests? Do we also have the courage to acknowledge when we are living apart from others because we feel we are better than them or we do not wish to feel vulnerable in asking for help, or to apologize for our actions, as another meaning of pride suggests? Please come and feel welcomed.”
 

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       Valerie Schwartz

Prelude          Ethan

Lighting the Chalice & the Black Lives Matter Candle    
Laura Roberts
Opening Words    Matt Livers

Hymn #1053     How Could Anyone         Ethan
Words & Music: Libby Roderick

Moment for All Ages
I am We: A Book of Community      Matt
by Susan Verde, Art by Peter H. Reynolds                      

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)     Laura
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             Matt

Musical Response #95      Ethan
          There is More Love Somewhere
Words & Music: Black American hymn

Meditation and Common Prayer      Matt

Musical Response          Ethan

Invitation to Generosity          Valerie

Offertory           Ethan

Sermon           Pride and Pridefulness         Matt

Hymn #318      We Would Be One    Ethan
Words: Samuel Anthony Wright
Music: Jean Sibelius

Extinguishing the Chalice               Laura
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           Matt

Postlude           Ethan

Invitations               Matt