Order of Service: Feb. 21, 2016 'Till Earth & Heaven Ring
Date of Service:
February 21, 2016
February 21, 2016 The Voice of Vocation
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*Gathering Hymn Come, Come, Whoever You Are Rev. Lynn Adair Ungar
Ven, ven, cual eres, ven,
Nómada͜ en búsqueda, si͜ amas la vida.
La nuestra͜ es la caravana de͜ amor.
Ven, otra vez ven.
Come, come, whoever you are,
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.
Prelude Sonata No. 12 in F Major, Mvmt. 3, K. 332 (9am) Wolfgang A. Mozart
Keep Your Lamps (11am) André J. Thomas
Welcome
Chalice Lighting Joanna Woods-Marsden
*Opening Hymn #149 Lift Every Voice and Sing
*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 Go Now in Peace Natalie Sleeth
Go now in peace. Go now in peace.
May the spirit of love surround you
As you go, as you go on your way.
Life Together
Pulpit Message Congregational Conversations Committee on Ministry
Offering Miss Celie’s Blues, The Color Purple (9am) Quincy Jones
Barter (11am) Tom Baehr
Devotional Time
Sung Response Voice Still and Small John Corrado
Voice still and small, deep inside all, I hear you call, singing.
In storm and rain, sorrow and pain, still we’ll remain singing.
Calming my fears, quenching my tears, through all the years, singing.
Responsive Reading #568 Connections Are Made Slowly Marge Piercy
Music for the Morning Liberi Fatali, Final Fantasy VIII Nobou Uematsu
Sermon ‘Til Earth and Heaven Ring Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
*Closing Hymn I Am Willing Holly Near
I am open and I am willing,
For to be hopeless would seem so strange.
It dishonors those who go before us,
So lift me up to the light of change.
There is hurting in my family,
There is sorrow in my town.
There is panic in the nation,
There is wailing the whole world ‘round.
I am open and I am willing...
May the children see more clearly,
May the elders be more wise.
May the winds of change caress us
Even though they burn our eyes.
I am open and I am willing...
Give me a mighty oak to hold my confusion,
Give me a desert to hold my fears.
Give me a sunset to hold my wonder,
Give me an ocean to hold my tears.
I am open and I am willing...
*Benediction
Musical Response Somewhere in Time (9am) John Barry
I Want to Be a Worker (11am) Isaiah Baltzell
*Please stand in body or in spirit
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Service Participants: Rebecca Crawford, Sheila Cummins, Tom Early, Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone,
Alice Hall, Barbara Kernochan, Eileen McCormack, David Olson, Rick Rhoads, Mark Warkentin,
Michael Young
Service Notes
To honor African American Heritage Month, in February our opening hymn is Lift Every Voice and
Sing. It is a text that calls us toward the pursuit of liberty for all, while rejoicing in the progress we
have made and honoring those lives that have been and will be lost to the struggle.
Today, 60% of our non-pledge offering goes to the Westside Food Bank. As food bank for the
Westside since 1981, they annually distribute 4.5 million pounds of food to over 70 local agencies.