Order of Service                                                                                                                                        July 20, 2014

 

*** Gathering Hymn                                       Come, come, whoever you are.

                                                                           Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.

                                                                           Ours is no caravan of despair.

                                                                           Come, yet again come.

 

*** Please stand in body or spirit.

 

Welcome                                                          Amelia Monteiro

 

Prelude                                                             “Chin Up”                                                                               Daniel Gledhill

 

Chalice Lighting                                               Rev. Christina Shu

 

Opening Hymn                                                  #368 “Now Let us Sing”

 

Latecomers will be seated.

 

*** 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.

                                                                                                                                                       - from the Genevan Psalter

 

Offering for the Westside Food Bank

 

Story For All Ages                                           Exodus 3:1-2, 9-14 & 4:1-5, 10-17                             Rev. Christina Shu

 

Song of Blessing                                           Go now in peace, go now in peace.

                                                                           May the spirit of love surround you

                                                                           As you go, as you go, on your way.

                                                                                                                                                           - Natalie Sleeth, adapted

 

A Time for Community

 

Offertory                                                          “Today”                                                                                 - Leslie Beauvais

 

Devotional Time

        Prayer                                                                                                                                                  Rev. Christina Shu

        Silence

        Sung Response                                     #1007 “There’s a River Flowin’ in My Soul”

 

Responsive Reading                                    “The Church of 80% Sincerity” (excerpt)                         - by David Roche

 

Music for the Morning                                     “If She Only Knew”                                                             - Leslie Beauvais

 

 

*** Closing Hymn                                            #1008 “When our Heart in is a Holy Place”

 

Please remain standing in body or spirit and hold hands for the benediction.

 

*** Benediction

 

*** Postlude                                                    “We’ll Meet Again”                                                                   Daniel Gledhill

 

Extinguishing the Chalice

 

 

 

Greeters:                                                        Dwight Flowers, Barbara Gibbs, David Olson

Ushers:                                                          Bonnie Brae & Carrie Lauer

Coffee:                                                            Nancy Howell & Pam Teplitz

Bookstore:                                                     Nancy Babbitt

Backyard Bounty:                                          Roberta Frye

 

 

This month, 60% of the non-pledge offering will go to Step up on Second. Step up on Second provides

help, hope and a home for individuals affected by mental illness. Each day, Step Up sees 100 individuals

and offers 22 programs in a continuum of care, all free of charge. For over a decade, volunteers from our

church have served a meal to residents at Step Up on Second on the 4th Saturday of the month. To join

the Hunger Task Force and volunteer, please contact Rhonda Peacock: uurhonda@gmail.com.

 

Reverend Christina Shu serves as the lead interfaith chaplain at Cedars Sinai. Rev. Shu earned a Bachelor’s

in Religious Studies at Stanford University. She then earned her Master’s in Divinity at Harvard Divinity

School. Rev. Shu’s focus is to provide interfaith spiritual care to patients and families from diverse

religious communities (Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc.), and those who are not religious, are unaffiliated,

or are personally spiritual. Her specialties are palliative care patients and families experiencing grief and

loss, end-of-life situations, and coping with long-term illness and hospitalization. She was a chaplain

resident at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center and has earned a total of six units of

clinical pastoral education. She also served as an intern minister for two years at Neighborhood Unitarian

Universalist Church in Pasadena and is now an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister.

 

Thank you to Leslie Beauvais for the gift of her music, this morning! Leslie has performed extensively in

musical theatre over some 28 years, including the Broadway company of “Les Miserables.” She started

writing her own songs in 1995 when in between Musical Theatre performances and has since recorded

two Albums of mostly original songs under the artist name Leslie Clemmons. She is excited to be

releasing her third Album of all original songs under her first and favorite name Leslie Beauvais, with

songs that she wrote all on her own, with the exception of two songs that were co-written by Leslie and

her friend and teacher Severin Browne. CHEMISTRY will be released sometime later this summer.

You can find out more about Leslie on her website, www.lesliebeauvais.com