Order of Service, June 12, 2016 "L.A. Pride Sunday"
Date of Service:
June 12, 2016
June 12, 2016 L.A. Pride Sunday
The queer art of failure turns on the impossible,
the improbable, the unlikely, and the unremarkable.
It quietly loses, and in losing it imagines other goals for life,
for love, for art, and for being.
- Judith Halberstam
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*Gathering Hymn Gracias por el amor arr. William James Ross
Gracias por el amor del cielo, gracias por el inmenso mar,
Gracias por el cantar del bosque. ¡Aleluya!
Gracias por este nuevo día, gracias por nuestra gran unión,
Gracias por todas las bondades. ¡Aleluya!
Prelude Prelude in G major Johann Sebastian Bach
Welcome
Chalice Lighting Nalani and Kim Santiago-Kalmanson
*Opening Hymn #130 O Liberating Rose
*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
Song of Blessing As You Leave This Friendly Place Johann Sebastian Bach
As you leave this friendly place, love give light to every face;
May the kindness which you learn light your hearts ‘til you return.
Life Together
Pulpit Message Adult Religious Education
Bill Blake and Dave Watson
Offering Amazing Grace arr. Jay Althouse
Jeremiah Davis, tenor
Devotional Time
Silence
Sung Response Comfort Me Mimi Bornstein
Comfort me, comfort me, comfort me, oh my soul.
Comfort me, comfort me, comfort me, oh my soul.
Sing with me…
Speak for me…
Dance with me…
Comfort me...
Responsive Reading #576 A Litany of Restoration Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley
Music for the Morning Misunderstood Daniel Gledhill
Jeremiah Davis, tenor
Sermon The Queer Art of Failure Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
*Closing Hymn #151 I Wish I Knew How
*Benediction
Musical Response Over the Rainbow Harold Arlen
*Please stand in body or in spirit
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Greeters: Dwight Flowers, Katie Malich & Jila Tayefehnowrooz
Ushers: Steve DePaul & Tom Early
Coffee: Jila Tayefehnowrooz & Linda van Ligten
Welcome Table: Carol Ring
Bookstore: Mark Warkentin
Service Notes
Welcome and thank you to our guest musician this morning, Jeremiah Davis. Jeremiah is a classically
trained singer and flutist with a long history in choirs, on opera and musical theater stages, and in
symphonic and pit orchestras throughout the country. He was invited this morning to premiere
Daniel Gledhill’s Misunderstood . According to the composer, it is a song “ about the feelings that [he]
had growing up in a church where you can't really fit in and [you] feel this really intense guilt for
something you can't change.”
Today 60% of our non-pledge offering will go to Common Ground: the Westside HIV Community
Center, now housed at Venice Family Clinic. Common Ground is the only HIV agency on the Westside
of Los Angeles. Common Ground is committed to helping everyone know their HIV status and making
sure that people living with the virus find – and stay connected to – medical care.