November 19, 2017                                    “There’s a Crack in Everything (That’s How the Light Gets In)”

*Gathering Hymn                              #1018 Come & Go With Me

 

Call to Worship                                 Kikanza Nuri-Robins, Worship Associate

 

Chalice Lighting                                Let us not rush to the language of healing,

                                                          before understanding the fullness of the injury

                                                          and the depth of the wound.

                                                          Let us not rush to offer a band-aid,

                                                          when the gaping wound requires surgery

                                                          and complete reconstruction.

                                                          Let us not speak of reconciliation

                                                          without speaking of reparations and restoration,

                                                          or how we can repair the breach

                                                          and how we can restore the loss.

                                                          Let us not be afraid to sit

                                                          with the ugliness, the messiness, and the pain

                                                          that is life in community together.

 

Music for the Morning                        23rd Psalm (9am)                                                         by Bobby McFerrin

 

Welcome

 

*Opening Hymn                                   #279 By the Waters of Babylon

 

*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                                   #407 We're Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table

                                                               We’re gonna sit at the welcome table

                                                               We’re gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days, Hallelujah!

                                                               We’re gonna sit at the welcome table

                                                               We’re gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days

                                                               All kinds of people around that table...

 

Life Together

 

Pastoral Prayer

 

Offering

 

Offertory                                                Anthem Wondrous (9am)                                               by Daniel Gledhill

                                                              Morgengesang (11am)                                              by Johannes Brahms

 

Reflection

 

Silence

 

Sung Response (optional)

 

Sermon                                “There’s a Crack in Everything (That’s How the Light Gets In)”             Rev. Greg

 

Going Deeper

 

*Closing Hymn                     #1007 “There’s a River Flowin’ in My Soul”

 

*Benediction

 

Musical Benediction

 

Invitation to Fellowship

 

*Please stand in body or in spirit

 

Greeters:                      Audrey Lyness (9am); Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone & David Olson (11am)

Ushers:                         Dan Patterson & Kit Shaw (9am); David Goetz & Michael Young (11am)

Coffee:                          Alice Hall & Eileen McCormack (9am); Sheila Cummuns & Pam Teplitz (11am)

Welcome Table:           Wendi Gladstone (9am & 11am)

Bookstore:                    Sarah Harper (9am & 11am)

 

Today, 40% of our offering will go to to The Guest At Your Table Program of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. They help us partner with 75 agencies in 24 countries advancing human rights. This week we partner with Ursula Rakova and the peoples of the Cateret Islands in Papua New Guinea who are among the first peoples displaced from native lands due to the effects of climate change. It’s a living example of how 3rd world people are suffering from 1st world choices. Your generosity directly advances love and justice on a global scale. Thank you!