February 11, 2018                                        “What to Know about Good and Evil While Being Trumped”

*Gathering Hymn                                        #1 May Nothing Evil Cross this Door

 

Call to Worship                                            Margot Page, Worship Associate

 

Chalice Lighting

 

Music for the Morning                                  “The Don” - Roy Zimmerman                              Zimmerman / Harby

 

Welcome

 

*Opening Hymn                                           “Hope, Struggle and Change”                            Zimmerman / Harby

                                                                                                                                                          arr. by Buckles

*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

 

*Song of Blessing                                           #210 Wade in the Water

                                                                        Wade in the water, wade in the water children

                                                                        Wade in the water, God’s gonna trouble the water

 

Life Together

 

Pulpit Message

 

Offering

Offertory Anthem                                         “When a Child is Born” (9am)                                Zimmerman / Harby

                                                                     “Church of the Earth” (11am)                                            Peter Meyer

                                                                     Roy Zimmerman and the UUSM Choir

 

Devotional Time

 

Reflection

 

Pastoral Prayer

 

Silence

 

Musical Response

 

Sermon “What to Know about Good and Evil While Being Trumped” Rev. Greg

 

Going Deeper

 

*Closing Hymn “Someday (We Shall Overcome)” Zimmerman / Harby

 

*Benediction

 

Musical Benediction

 

Invitation to Fellowship

 

*Please stand in body or in spirit

 

 

Greeters:                    Dwight Flowers (9am); Barbara Gibbs & Katie Malich (11am)

Ushers:                       Bonnie Brae & David Goetz (9am); Hugo Contreras & Steve DePaul

Coffee:                        Kit Shaw (9am); Hugo Contreras (11am)

Welcome Table:          Barbara Gibbs (9am); Sheila Cummins (11am)

Bookstore:                  Sarah Harper

 

Today, 40% of our offering will go to to the Entrepreneurial Ministry Project. This is a new idea for us. Our offering generally goes to agencies. We try to balance between local, national and global agencies so that we engage in immediate, extended and far reaching ways. We give to agencies both within and beyond UU - so that we support and value our own purpose but also become valuable part of a purpose larger than us.

 

But we live in a world today where Truth of Love and Justice doesn’t just come from agencies or Non-profits. More and more, prophetic truth is coming from inspired individuals following an entrepreneurial call to cast vision, call out shared values, wake people up and get people involved in changing the world.

 

So, our first recipient for the Entrepreneurial Ministry Project - while he’s with us - is Roy Zimmerman. 40% of our collection today will go to helping him get the word out - in his unique, humorous and inspiring way. We want to help him inspire positive change - bend the moral arc toward justice. Part of this offering will be helping his concert tonight be possible. But, also we’d like to help him beyond this place spread some good news as far and wide as possible. We’d love your help. We will now gratefully receive this morning’s offering.