What’s UUp 11/9/25?

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.
See your Midweek Update for This Week’s Announcements
  • Join Us for Lunch November 9
    First time visitors, are invited to be our guest! Otherwise, suggested lunch donation is $5. The menu this Sunday: Texas Straw Hats (like a taco) and Mexican Hot Chocolate snickerdoodles for dessert.
  • Adult (RE) Adult Religious Exploration – contact Alexis, Jim, or Matt
    All are Welcome
    Check-in begins at 9:45. Class meets in the Church Library at 10am.
    November 9: Cues for Gratitude 
    We’re going to share stories of gratitude, taking our prompts and cues from Mary Oliver’s questions posed in Gratitude and from the knit hat thought experiment proposed by Robin Wall Kimmerer. What happens when we take the internal sense of gratitude and voice it? How does it feel to be a witness to gratitude? We’re going to find out on Sunday!
  • Children’s RE  Contact Loren  
    Children begin in the sanctuary at 11:00, then have the Moment for Ages. They leave during the Song for the Children. Classes
  • The Big Blue Basket – Please donate food for the food pantry at CLCM’s affiliate food pantry next door at Calvary Episcopal Church. Items especially needed are peanut butter, pasta and sauce, canned meat/fish, soups, breakfast cereal….but all items are gratefully accepted. Let’s fill that Big Blue Basket.

November 9: Celebration of Life – 11:00am 

 

The Mrs. Ada Doss Campbell Story
Out of the Void
Community Conversation
Speaker:
Dr. Renee Maltinaa Ann Campbell

 

Join us for a presentation exploring one family’s truth-seeking journey to uncover the medical neglect experienced by Mrs. Ada Doss Campbell, a former patient at Lakeland Lunatic Asylum (now Central State Hospital). Through research funded by the Kentucky Foundation for Women, this presentation examines the historical injustices and inequities surrounding her wrongful death while sharing the project’s overview and future plans. This community conversation sheds light on a painful chapter of institutional medical history and honors Mrs. Campbell’s story.

About the Speaker:
For more than 40 years, Dr. Renee Campbells’ work has been immersed in her multifaceted identity as an award-winning international speaker and leader with Kentucky native roots hailing from Adairville, Kentucky. Her lifelong journey has been within the intersections of education, social work, and humanitarianism. She has received numerous accolades and achievements that illuminate her humble core of intentional giving.

The Kentucky Foundation for Women funded research that provided a clear path to investigate the inequities associated with her grandmother’s wrongful death. Dr. Campbell established the Mrs. Ada Doss Campbell Memorial Scholarship Fund in 2021 to pay college fees for undergraduate students pursuing degrees in social work at Kentucky State University. For more information, click here

 

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       Tim Raymond

Prelude           Ethan

Lighting the Chalice and the Black Lives Matter Candle
Pat Allison and Peggy Muller

Opening Words
We Have Come Into This Room of Hope                      
Libbie D Stoddard

Hymn #128    For All That is Our Life      Ethan
Words: Bruce Findlow; music: Patrick L. Rickey

Moment for All Ages  The Thank You Book    Laura Roberts
          (An Elephant and Piggie Book)
Written and illustrated by Mo Willems

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          Peggy
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          Pat

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

Meditation and Common Prayer       Laura
           For All That Is Our Life by Rev. Liz Weber

Musical Response      Ethan

Invitation to Generosity         Peggy

Offertory         Ethan

Sermon          Dr. Renee Maltinaa Campbell
           The Mrs. Ada Doss Campbell Story:
          Out of the Void Community Conversation

Hymn #121      We’ll Build A Land         Ethan
Words: Barbara Zanotti; music: Carolyn McDade

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   Blessed by Our Connections     Laura
Susan Karlson

Postlude           Ethan

Benediction         Peggy