Order of Service - March 20, 2016 "For Such a Time as This"
Date of Service:
March 20, 2016
March 20, 2016
Help us to be the always hopeful
gardeners of the spirit
who know that without darkness
nothing comes to birth
as without light
nothing flowers.
- May Sarton
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*Gathering Hymn This Is My Song Jean Sibelius
This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
But other hearts in other lands are beating
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean
And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine
But other lands have sunlight too, and clover
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.
Prelude Morning Praises Jason Shelton
Call to Worship #437 Let Us Worship Kenneth L. Patton
Chalice Lighting
*Opening Hymn #1012 When I Am Frightened
*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 How Could Anyone Libby Roderick
How could anyone ever tell you
You were anything less than beautiful?
How could anyone ever tell you
You were less than whole?
How could anyone fail to notice that your loving is a miracle?
How deeply you’re connected to my soul.
Life Together
Offering Whither Must I Wander (9am) Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Promise of Living, The Tenderland (11am) Aaron Copland
Devotional Time
Sung Response #6 Just As Long As I Have Breath
Reading There is Only One Reason for Joining a UU Church
John B. Wolf, adapted
Music for the Morning September Song, Knickerbocker Holiday (9am) Kurt Weill
Sweet Peace (11am) Richard Jay Hyman
Sermon For Such a Time As This Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
*Closing Hymn # 298 Wake, Now, My Senses
*Benediction
Musical Response The Prayer (9am) David Foster
Halle, Halle, Halle (11am) arr. John L. Bell
*Please stand in body or in spirit
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Greeters: Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone, Rhonda Peacock & David Olson
Ushers: Tom Early, Peggy Kharraz, Rick Rhoads & Michael Young
Coffee: Rebecca Crawford, Sheila Cummins, Alice Hall & Eileen McCormack
Bookstore: Mark Warkentin
Service Notes
Today 60% of our non-pledge offering will go to the Pacific Western Region, the collaboration of
four large, dynamic and beautiful western districts of the Unitarian Universalist Association:
Mountain Desert District, Pacific Central District, Pacific Northwest District and Pacific Southwest
District. The Pacific Western Region is four districts, 188 congregations and 31,000 Unitarian
Universalists with great potential to shape a more humane and sustainable culture in the west.