Order of Service - Nov. 13, 2016 "Hope & Fear"

Date of Service: 
November 13, 2016
 
          November 13, 2016
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now, when?
- Rabbi Hillel
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*Gathering Hymn                                   #155 Circle ‘Round for Freedom
                                                                  Circle 'round for freedom, circle 'round for peace,
                                                                  For all of us imprisoned, circle for release,
                                                                  Circle for the planet, circle for each soul,
                                                                  For the children of our children,
                                                                  Keep the circle whole.
 
Prelude                                                    We’ll Build a Land                                                                   Carolyn McDade
 
Welcome
 
Chalice Lighting                                      #658 To Risk Anonymous
(Responsive)
 
*Opening Hymn                                      #109 As We Come Marching, Marching
 
*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                                        We Are Not Afraid                                                                   Aaron McEmrys
 
Song of Blessing                                       #414 As We Leave This Friendly Place
                                                                     As you leave this friendly place, love give light to every face.
                                                                    May the kindness which you learn, light your hearts till you return.
 
Life Together
 
Pulpit Message                                        Board of Directors
                                                                    Jacki Weber (9am)
                                                                    Ron Crane (11am)
 
Offering                                                     The Circle Game                                                                              Joni Mitchell
 
Devotional Time
 
Candle Lighting
 
Sung Response                                     #86 Blessed Spirit of My Life
 
Music for the Morning                           Jeux d’eau (9am)                                                                           Maurice Ravel
                                                                  The Road Not Taken (11am)                                               Randall Thompson
 
Sermon                                                   Hope and Fear                                                         Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
*Closing Hymn                                      #95 There is More Love Somewhere
 
*Benediction
 
Musical Response                               Amen in Bb                                                                                    Zanaida Robles
 
*Please stand in body or in spirit
 
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Greeters:                                         Dwight Flowers, Katie Malich & Jila Tayefehnowrooz
Ushers:                                           Tom Early, Kit Shaw, Ned Wright & Michael Young
Coffee:                                             Phyllis Kory, Jila Tayefehnowrooz & Linda van Ligten
Bookstore:                                      Sarah Harper
 
Service Notes
 
Today 40% of our non-pledge offering will go to the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU was
founded to ensure the promise of the Bill of Rights and to expand its reach to people historically
denied its protections. In our first year, we fought the harassment and deportation of immigrants
whose activism put them at odds with the authorities. In 1939, we won in the U.S. Supreme Court the
right for unions to organize. We stood almost alone in 1942 in denouncing our government’s
round-up and internment in concentration camps of more than 110,000 Japanese Americans. And at
times in our history when frightened civilians have been willing to give up some of their freedoms and
rights in the name of national security, the ACLU has been the bulwark for liberty.