*Gathering Hymn                                         Come, come, whoever you are,

                                                                         Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.

                                                                         Ours is no caravan of despair.

                                                                        Come, yet again, come.

 

Welcome                                                      Rima Snyder, pulpit host

 

Prelude                                                        Songs My Mother Taught Me                                                Antonin Dvorak

                                                                       Lynn Angebranndt, cello

 

Chalice Lighting                                          Diana Spears

 

*Opening Hymn                                         #326 Let All the Beauty We Have Known

 

*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

 

Poems for All Ages                                     My Family's Fond of Gadgets                                               by Kenn Nesbitt

read by Carrie Lauer                                 My Mom's Spaghetti                         by Kenn Nesbitt & Donna Lee Murphy

 

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

 

Pulpit Message                                           UU Justice Ministry scholarship                                               Cathie Gentile

 

A Time for Community

 

Offertory                                                        Dido’s Lament, from Dido and Aenaes                                   Henry Purcell

                                                                       When I am laid in earth, may my wrongs create no trouble in thy breast.

                                                                       Remember me, but, ah, forget my fate!

 

Reading                                                       The Guest House                                                                                        Rumi

 

Silent Meditation

 

Responsive Reading                                  #661 The Heart Knoweth                                        Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Introduction                                                   Tree & Root: Poems About Family                                       Rima Snyder

 

Emmy Cresciman                                          Nan Burton, by Vincent Cresciman

Bettye Barclay                                               My Dad

 

Music for the Morning                                  Found My Way Back Home                                                     Karl Lisovsky,

                                                                                                                                                                     arr. by Rima Snyder

 

Cassandra Christenson                              Community Is Family

Jessica Fant-Chapin                                    Generations

 

*Closing Hymn                                              #342 O Slowly, Slowly, They Return, verses 1-3

 

*Benediction

 

Postlude                                                          Feldeinsamkeit                                                                Johannes Brahms

 

Extinguishing the Chalice

 

*Please stand in body or in spirit

 

Greeters:                                                           Dwight Flowers, Glen Howell, Michael & Steve Young

Ushers:                                                             Tom Foretich & Dan Patterson

Coffee:                                                              Nancy Howell & Alicia Van Ooyen

Bookstore:                                                        Nancy Babbitt

 

Huge thanks and a warm welcome back to our guest musician this morning, Lynn Angebranndt. Ms.

Angebranndt received her Bachelor of Music in applied cello from The Catholic University of America

and a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. Since 2008, she has been a member of

the Kadima String Quartet, a group with an extensive mission to both perform and educate. Through the

Kadima Conservatory of Music, Ms. Angebranndt teaches cello lessons, leads a cello choir and

introductory group violin classes, and coaches youth orchestra and chamber music. Ms. Angebranndt

also maintains her own private teaching studio, is a board member of the Los Angeles Cello Society and

sits principal cello for the West Chester Symphony and Lancaster Philharmonic.

 

This month, 60% of our non-pledge offering will go to Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services. With

locations in Culver City and throughout Los Angeles, Didi Hirsch transforms lives by providing quality

mental health care and substance abuse disorder services in communities where stigma or poverty

limit access. Its Suicide Prevention Center was the first in the nation to provide 24/7 crisis counseling

and receives over 55,000 calls each year at 877-7-CRISIS, or 877-727-4747.