Gathering Hymn

Come, come whoever you are,

Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving.

Ours is no caravan of despair,

Come, yet again come.

Ven, ven, cual eres, ven,

Nómada en búsqueda, si amas la vida.

La nuestra es la caravana de amor,

Ven, otra vez ven.

Call To Worship

                                                              Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur                                                    

Prelude (9:00)

Choral Prelude (11:00)

Saviour, Like a Shepherd Lead Us                     arr. Mark Hayes                                            

Truth Be In My Head                                                      Nicholson                                                                    

Chalice Lighting

 The Weber-Pelayo-Fouts family (9:00)

Edna Bonacich (11:00)

Opening Hymn #113

Where Is Our Holy Church?

Covenant

Love is the doctrine of this church.     

The quest of 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, good will on earth be sung

Through every land, by every tongue.           ~ based on Isaac Watts

Offering for the Westside Food Bank

Time for All Ages

Song of Blessing [1011]

Return again, return again, return to the home of your soul.

Return to who you are, return to what you are,

Return to where you are born and reborn again.

A Time for Community

Offertory                         (9:00)                                                                

                                       (11:00)             

Time Remembered                                                          Bill Evans

Elijah Rock                                                                          Hairston

Devotional Time

  Pastoral Prayer

  Silence

  Hymn #123

Spirit of Life

Reading

from The Tao Te Ching: A New English Version                                         

                                                                                Stephen Mitchell

Music for the Morning  

It Aint' Necessarily So (from Porgy and Bess)             Gershwin                                               

Babatunde Akinboboye, baritone soloist

Sermon

"The Quest of Truth Is Our Sacrament"                           

                                                              Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur                                                     

Closing Song [1007]

There’s A River Flowin’ In My Soul

Benediction

Postlude                          (9:00)

                                       (11:00)

Be Thou My Vision                                                traditional Irish

Eternal Light, Shine In My Heart                                       Englert

Extinguishing the Chalice