April 15, 2018                                                                             “The Better Angels of Our Nature”

*Gathering Hymn                                          #347 Gather the Spirit

 

Call to Worship                                                                                                                                       Catie Grasso

 

Chalice Lighting

 

Music for the Morning                                    Rondeau (9am)                                                by Jean-Joseph Mouret

                                                                            with Becky Erskine

                                                                      O Come Now Holy Spirit (11am)                                 by John Amner

 

Welcome

 

*Opening Hymn                                            #348 Guide My Feet

 

*Covenant                                                     Love is the doctrine of this church.

                                                                     The quest for truth is its sacrament,

                                                                     And service is its prayer.

                                                                     To dwell together in peace,

                                                                     To seek knowledge in freedom,

                                                                     To serve humankind in fellowship,

                                                                     Thus do we covenant with each other.

 

*Hymn of Praise                                            From all that dwell below the skies

                                                                      Let songs of hope and faith arise

                                                                      Let peace, goodwill on earth be sung

                                                                      Through every land, by every tongue.

 

Offering for the Westside Food Bank

 

Time for All Ages                                           The Promise and the Practice:

                                                                       Repairing Our Mistakes with Love

                                                                             Adapted from a story by Jaelynn Pema-la Scott & Erika A. Hewitt

                                                                                                                         Told by Kathleen Hogue & Rev. Greg

 

*Song of Blessing                                         #366 Heleuyan

                                                                     Heleluyan, heleluyan; hele, heleluyan;

                                                                     heleluyan, heleluyan; hele, heleluyan.

 

Life Together

 

Offering                                                        SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice)

 

Offertory Anthem                                         Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8 "Spring" (9am)       by Antonio Vivaldi

                                                                            with Becky Erskine

                                                                    Hallelujah, Amen from "Judas Maccabaeus" (11am)     by G. F. Handel

 

Devotional Time

 

Reflection

 

Pastoral Prayer

 

Silence

 

Musical Response

 

Sermon                                                     “The Better Angels of Our Nature”                              Rev. Greg Ward

 

Going Deeper

 

*Closing Hymn                                           #34 Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire

 

*Benediction

 

Musical Benediction

 

Invitation to Fellowship

 

*Please stand in body or in spirit

 

Greeters: Audrey Lyness (9am); Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone & David Olson (11am)

Ushers: Erik Paesel & Kit Shaw (9am);

Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone & David Olson (11am)

Coffee: Alice Hall & Eileen McCormack (9am); Sheila Cummins & Pam Teplitz (11am)

Welcome Table: Wendi Gladstone (9am & 11am)

Bookstore: Sarah Harper (9am & 11am)

 

40% of today's offering goes to SURJ. SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) is a national network of

groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice. Through community organizing,

mobilizing and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for

justice with passion and accountability.

 

SURJ works to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and

national racial justice organizing efforts. They provide space to build relationships, skills and

political analysis to act for change.

 

SURJ’s goal is to transform this country by building a powerful multiracial majority who can

challenge racism in all its forms. We invite you to be part of making peace and justice, person to

person. We will now receive this morning’s offering.