Order of Service, Jan. 15, 2017 MLK Sunday
Date of Service:
January 15, 2017
January 15, 2017 MLK Sunday
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*Gathering Hymn #188 Come, Come, Whoever You Are Lynn Adair Ungar
Come, come, whoever you are.
Wandering, worshipper, lover of leaving
Ours is no caravan of despair
Come, yet again, come.
Prelude Looking Within Daniel Gledhill
Welcome
Chalice Lighting (Unison) Only Love Can Do That Martin Luther King, Jr.
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate,
adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
*Opening Hymn #1000 Morning Has Come
*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 Martin’s Big Words Doreen Rappaport
illustrated by Bryan Collier
Song of Blessing #169 We Shall Overcome Traditional
We shall overcome.
We shall overcome.
We shall overcome, someday.
Deep in my heart, I do believe, we shall overcome someday.
We’ll walk hand in hand...
Life Together
Pulpit Message Heart to Heart Circles
Abby Arnold (9am)
Kirk Attebury (11am)
Community Speaker John Raphling (11am)
Offering Theme from “Somewhere in Time” John Barry
I Dream a World Rosephanye Powell
Devotional Time #732 For Martin Luther King, Jr.
Silence
Sung Response #199 Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Music for the Morning Precious Love Thomas Dorsey
Arr. Arnold Seiver (11am)
Sermon Only Love Can Do That Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
*Closing Hymn #1015 I Know I Can
*Benediction
Musical Response Amen in Bb
*Please stand in body or in spirit
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Greeters: Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone, Audrey Lyness & David Olson
Ushers: Nina Emerson, Barbara Kernochan, Peggy Kharraz & Michael Young
Coffee: Sheila Cummins, Alice Hall, Pam Teplitz & Alicia van Ooyen
Welcome Table: Wendi Gladstone
Bookstore: Sarah Harper
Service Notes
Today 40% of our non-pledge offering will go to Los Angeles Community Action Network to help
people dealing with poverty create and discover opportunities, while serving as a vehicle to ensure we
have voice, power and opinion in the decisions that are directly affecting us. Their overarching social
change goals are to:
● Organize and empower community residents to work collectively to change the relationships of
power that affect our community.
● Create an organization and organizing model that eradicate the race, class, gender barriers
that are used to prevent communities from building true power.
● Eliminate the multiple forms of violence used against and within our community to maintain
status quo.