Order of Service - December 28, 2014 "Once Upon a time - Again"
Date of Service:
December 28, 2014
December 28, 2014
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring
will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding
*Gathering Hymn Morning Has Come Jason Shelton
Open our eyes to see that life abounds;
Open hearts to welcome it among us.
The light of hope here shines upon each face.
May it bring faith to guide our journey home.
Prelude Where or When, Babes in Arms Richard Rodgers
Welcome Eric Huang, Worship Associate
Call to Worship Meditation XVII, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions John Donne
Chalice Lighting Black Elk Speaks told by John G. Neihardt
Nalani Santiago-Kalmanson
*Opening Hymn #12 O Life That Maketh All Things New
*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.
Offering for the Westside Food Bank and Turning Point
*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.
Time for All Ages Something from Nothing Phoebe Gilman
Kim Santiago-Kalmanson
Song of Blessing Go Your Way In Peace Jim Scott
Go your way in peace, wander as you may.
Blessed is the path you take, may love guide you on your way.
Comfort find in truth, may your struggles cease.
May the fire within your heart light the way of peace.
Life Together
Offering Hundreds of Stories, In the Heights Lin-Manuel Miranda
Devotional Time
Silence
Devotional Hymn Winds Be Still Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Bird fly high. Lift our gaze toward distant view.
Help us to sense life’s mystery.
Fly high and far, and lead us each to see
How we move through the winds of eternity.
Reading Why Our Memory Fails Us Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons
Music for the Morning Once Upon a Time, All American Charles Strouse
Sermon Once Upon a Time - Again Michael Eselun
*Closing Hymn #191 Now I Recall My Childhood
*Benediction Michael Eselun
Musical Response I Know Where I’ve Been, Hairspray Marc Shaiman
*Please stand in body or in spirit
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Service Notes
Service participants: Nancy Babbitt, Tom Foretich, Glen Howell, Nancy Howell, Peggy Kharraz, Sue
Stoyanoff, Michael Young, Steve Young & Sylvia Young.
Welcome back and thanks to our guest musician this morning, Michael Antaramian.
Today’s Community Offering will go to the Simms/Mann-UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology, a
national model for providing integrative patient care for individuals and families touched by cancer.