January 8, 2017                                                                                                      A Community of Prophecy

 

*Gathering Hymn                                     #318 We Would Be One                                                        verses 1 & 2 only

 

Prelude                                                       Bashanah                                                       Nurit Hirsch, arr. Daniel Gledhill

 

Welcome

 

Chalice Lighting                                        James Witker

 

*Opening Hymn                                        #108 My Life Flows On In Endless Song

 

*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                                       Home Base

 

Song of Blessing                                      #414 As We Leave This Friendly Place

 

Life Together

 

Pulpit Message                                         Right Relations Task Force

 

Offering                                                      New Year Carol                                                                      Benjamin Britten

 

Devotional Time James Witker

 

Silence

 

Sung Response                                       #391 Voice Still and Small

 

Reading                                                    Excerpt from “The Prophethood of All Believers”                 Maggie Potthoff

                                                                    By James Luther Adams

 

Music for the Morning                             Ring out, Wild Bells (9am)                                  Gounod, arr. Daniel Gledhill

                                                                    Kujichagulia (11am)                                                            Dr. Zanaida Robles

 

Sermon                                                      The Prophethood of All Believers                                          Maggie Potthoff

 

*Closing Hymn                                         #170 We are a Gentle, Angry People

 

*Benediction Maggie Potthoff

 

Musical Response

 

*Please stand in body or in spirit

 

Greeters:                             Dwight Flowers, Katie Malich & Jila Tayefehnowrooz

Ushers:                                Bonnie Brae, Dan Patterson, Linda van Ligten & Greg Wood

Coffee:                                 Kit Shaw, Jila Tayefehnowrooz & Linda van Ligten

Welcome Table:                 Barbara Gibbs

Bookstore:                          Sarah Harper

 

Today 40% of our non-pledge offering will go to Unitarian Universalist Service Committee,

(UUSC), to advance human rights and social justice in the United States and around the world. The

work of the UU Service Committee is built on the conviction that all people are entitled to basic

human rights, which transcend divisions of class, race, nationality, sexual orientation, ethnicity,

religion, and gender. We envision a world free from oppression and injustice, where all can realize

their full human rights.

 

Maggie Potthoff is a candidate for the Unitarian Universalist community ministry, and is interested

in working at the intersection of faith and public life. She and her husband moved to Los Angeles last

year after her graduation from the University of Chicago's dual master's program in divinity and public

policy. She currently works as a policy analyst at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority and

serves on the board of our new UU regional justice group, JUUstice-LA. As a fairly recent midwest

transplant, she is energized by all that she's learned about justice-making, community-building, and

farmers markets in her short time in the LA area. She is grateful to be with you at UUSM today.