What’s UUp 9/6/26?

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First Sunday Lunch

The menu is Sloppy Joes or a gluen-free option, 3-bean salad, and Jill’s legendary Red Velvet Cake with cream cheese frosting. The suggested donation is $5 and first-time visitors are welcome to join us as our guests.

Have You Signed Up for a CLOUT Listening Session?

The first session is Friday, September 11. See your Midweek Update for information and how to sign up.

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 at 11:00am
 

September 6

There are No Weeds
in MyYard
Speaker: Jill Sampson

Perspective is complicated.  Sometimes we get an idea of how things or people should be and that expectation keeps us from connecting to each other, to beauty, and to the divine.
How can we step out of what we expect in order to widen our circle of welcome in this sanctuary and our community? If our goal is to build a loving, thriving community, what ideas might be in our way?

Speaker Bio: Jill Sampson is a member of First Unitarian.  Jill grew up in central Indiana but has been in Louisville now for 30+ years although you can’t tell it from her accent. She lives with an awesome spouse in dogleg-camelback-shotgun house in Germantown. She has a biochemistry degree from the Ag School at Purdue and an MBA from U of L. For fun she golfs, reads, writes, dabbles with an art journal and doom scrolls on social media. Please don’t ask her to sing.
 

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           Kathy Thackeray

Prelude           Ethan

Lighting the Chalice & the Black Lives Matter Candle     Pat Allison
                                                                                          
Opening Words         Jill Sampson
You Are Beloved and You Are Welcome Here
Joan Javier Duval

Hymn #1017       Building a New Way      Ethan
Words and music: Martha Sandefer

Blessing for the CLOUT Team         Jill
Blessing for Doing the Work

Moment for All Ages   Everybody Has a Body       Jill
Molli Jackson-Ehlert

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
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                 Jill and Pat

Musical Response #95        Ethan
          There is More Love Somewhere
Words and music: African American hymn

Moment of Prayer and Meditation      Jill
          Your Body is Welcome Here
Sean Neil – Barron

Musical Response  #1023      Building Bridges          Ethan
Words: The women of Greenham Common
peace occupation in England, 1983
Music: Contemporary English Quaker Round

Invitation to Generosity         Jill

Offertory             Ethan

Sermon      There Are No Weeds in My Yard   Jill

Hymn #1014       Answering the Call of Love      Ethan
Words and music: Jason Shelton

Extinguishing the Chalice           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          Jill

Postlude       Ethan

Invitations               Jill