July 30, 2017                                                                                                          Comfort in Difficult Times

*Gathering Hymn (standing)                        #1010 We Give Thanks

 

Prelude (seated)                                         Hineh Mah Tov                            Psalm 133 “How Good and Pleasant”

                                                                    Youth Summer Choir

 

Welcome

 

Chalice Lighting

 

*Opening Hymn (standing)                        #168 One More Step

 

*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

 

Offering for the Westside Food Bank (seated)

 

Time for All Ages

 

Song of Blessing                                      #118 This Little Light of Mine

                                                                 This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine...

                                                                 Everywhere I go, I’m gonna let it shine...

 

Life Together

 

Pulpit Message

 

Offering                                                    Sonata III in G major for Flute and Piano                           G. F. Handel

 

Devotional Time

 

Silence

 

Music For the Morning                             Sonata V in E minor for Flute and Piano                             J. S. Bach

 

Sermon                                                    Comfort in Difficult Times                          Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels

 

*Closing Hymn (standing)                        #1002 Comfort Me

 

*Benediction and Dismissal

 

*Please stand in body or in spirit

 

 

Greeters:                                        Bryan Cahill & Barbara Gibbs

Ushers:                                           Bonnie Brae & David Goetz

Coffee:                                            Rebecca Crawford, Linda Marten, Susan Stahl & Alicia van Ooyen

Welcome Table:                              Barbara Gibbs

Bookstore:                                      Sarah Harper

 

Today, 40% of our offering will go to Step Up On Second. Step Up delivers compassionate support

to people experiencing serious mental illness to help them recover, stabilize, and integrate into the

community. With 100 permanent supportive housing units at six locations in Santa Monica and on

the Westside of Los Angeles, Step Up now serves over 1,800 individuals each year with a focus on

offering help, hope, and home. More information available at www.StepUpOnSecond.org.

 

Rabbi Neil Comess-Daniels was the founding rabbi of Temple Shir Shalom, one of the two temples

that have come together to become Beth Shir Shalom in Santa Monica. A graduate of UCLA, Rabbi

Comess-Daniels was ordained in 1979 at the Hebrew Union College and is often asked to mentor

young rabbinic students. He brings his passionate expression of Judaism and his strong sense of

social justice to the pulpit. Rabbi Daniels’ personal commitment is to organizations that deal with

interracial and interfaith relations and homelessness issues. He has chaired the Martin Luther King,

Jr. Westside Coalition and the Interfaith Holocaust Service and also serves on the boards of the

Western Region of the Jewish Federation Council and the Westside Interfaith Council.

 

We are thrilled to have our very own Kenneth Alexander offering music for today’s service. Thank

you, Ken! Ken Alexander is a mathematics professor at USC, a UUSM member, and, when those other

obligations allow, a flutist. He is principal flute of the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra.