Order of Service - April 3, 2015 "Growing with Conflict"
Date of Service:
April 3, 2016
April 3, 2016 Seeds of Change
Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.
-- Audre Lorde
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*Gathering Hymn Come, Come, Whoever You Are Rev. Lynn Adair Ungar
Come, come, whoever you are,
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.
Ven, ven, cual eres, ven,
Nómada͜ en búsqueda, si͜ amas la vida.
La nuestra͜ es la caravana de͜ amor.
Ven, otra vez ven.
Prelude Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season) Pete Seeger
Welcome James Witker
Chalice Lighting Young Religious Unitarian Universalists
*Opening Hymn #113 Where is Our Holy Church?
*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 Jessica Clay
Song of Blessing This Little Light of Mine Traditional
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine…
Everywhere I go, I’m gonna let it shine...
Life Together
Offering #1015 I Know I Can
Devotional Time
Sung Response Rising Green arr. Jim Scott
My foot carries days of the old into new,
Our dreaming shows us the way.
Wondrous our faith settles deep in the earth,
Rising green to bring a new day.
Rising green, rising green, rising green to bring a new day.
Responsive Reading #587 A Litany for Survival Audre Lord
Music for the Morning Transformation Daniel Gledhill
Sermon Growing with Conflict Jessica Clay
*Closing Hymn #1020 Woyaya
*Benediction
Musical Response So Close, Enchanted Jon McLaughlin
*Please stand in body or in spirit
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Greeters: Denise Helton, Tom Foretich & Barbara Gibbs
Ushers: Barbara Kernochan, Peggy Kharraz, Linda van Ligten & Greg Wood
Coffee: Deirdre Dietel, Peggy Rhoads, Kit Shaw & Alicia van ooyen
Bookstore: Mark Warkentin
Service Notes
Thank you to our worship leaders this Sunday! Jessica Clay, preaching, is currently making her way
through her final year of divinity school at Starr King, (our UU seminary up in Berkeley), after many
years of volunteer leadership as a member here in Santa Monica. She is looking forward to future
opportunities, “ to support people, to nurture community, to do social justice work, and to encourage
spiritual growth.” Today’s pulpit host, James Witker, is active with our AAHS group for atheists,
agnostics, humanists, and secularists and enjoys organizing periodic workshops concerning Unitarian
Universalism and how we interact with society and the world around us. We’re very thankful to have
these two leading our worship services this weekend.
Beginning this Sunday and concluding on April 24 with a special celebration for the Earth, our
congregation will be exploring issues of Climate Justice and ways to live out our 7th principle of
respect for the interdependent web of all existence. Accordingly, this month 60% of our non-pledge
offering will go to Community Services Unlimited, (CSU) of South Central Los Angeles to support
programs such as Growing Healthy, which engages youth in urban farming and food based learning as
a tool to help them adopt a healthier lifestyle and develop an awareness and political consciousness to
the food access and environmental justice issues impacting their communities. The program currently
operates at Normandie Avenue Elementary School and the Expo Center, and has a history at John
Muir Middle School. Please mark your calendars for our special Healthy Food, Healthy Planet Second
Sunday Supper at 6pm on April 10, when we will also host guests from CSU to learn more about their
programs in promoting healthy eating in South LA.