Sunday September 10, 2017                                                                                     Perfect Strangers

*Gathering Hymn                                 #1007 There’s a River Flowing in My Soul

 

Call to Worship                                     The Main Meal is Tenderness

 

Chalice Lighting

 

Music for the Morning                           Zion’s Walls                                                                        Aaron Copland

 

Welcome

 

*Opening Hymn                                   #151 I Wish I Knew How

 

*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

 

Time for All Ages The Paper Bag Princess Robert Munsch

 

Song of Blessing                                 #414 As We Leave This Friendly Place

                                                            As we leave this friendly place,

                                                            Love give light to every face;

                                                            May the kindness which we learn

                                                            Light our hearts till we return.

 

Life Together

 

Offering                                               Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now                                               arr. James Hayden

 

Devotional Time

 

Reading                                              Shaky Skaters                                                                    Rev. Jane Rzepka

 

Pastoral Prayer

 

Silence

 

Sung Response                                   #205 Amazing Grace

 

Sermon                                               Perfect Strangers                                                                 Rev. Greg Ward

 

Going Deeper

 

*Closing Hymn                                     #1053 How Could Anyone

 

*Benediction and Chalice Extinguishing

 

*Choral Benediction                               Amen in Bb

 

Dismissal

 

*Please stand in body or in spirit

 

Greeters:                         Dwight Flowers, Katie Malich & Jila Tayefehnowrooz

Ushers:                            Steve DePaul & Michael Young

Coffee:                            Phyllis Kory, Jila Tayefehnowrooz & Linda van Ligten

Welcome Table:              Barbara Gibbs

Bookstore:                      Sarah Harper

 

Today, 40% of our offering will go towards efforts to help those affected by Hurricane Harvey. It is expected that the cleanup effort will be long, and many have been displaced. Please give what you can to help out those in the path of this storm. Thank you!

 

Rev. Greg Ward comes to us from a year of healing interim ministry at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Vancouver in Washington. He was raised here in L.A. and has deep roots in the Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena and at Camp de Benneville Pines. With 20 years of parish ministry across the US and Canada, Rev. Greg is looking forward to sharing his passion for our faith and to helping optimize our organizational and spiritual health.