Order of Service: Sun, Sept 3, 2017 "Making Room at the Table"
Date of Service:
September 3, 2017
Sunday September 3, 2017 Making Room at the Table
This is a modern dance with real animals. It’s supposed to symbolize peaceful coexistence
but it’s usually pretty loud and the dancers have to watch where they step all the time.
I heard someone say they didn’t know peace was so smelly.
~ Peace Dance, Brian Andrews (StoryPeople.com)
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*Gathering Hymn (standing) #389 Gathered Here
Prelude (seated) This is the Island of Gardens Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Welcome
Chalice Lighting Sue Stoyanoff
*Opening Hymn (standing) #1014 Standing on the Side of Love
*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 (seated)
Time for All Ages Kathleen Hogue
Song of Blessing #407 We’re Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table
Life Together
Pulpit Message Leon Henderson-MacLennan
Offering From a Distance Julie Gold
Devotional Time
Silence
Music for the Morning Blowing in the Wind Bob Dylan
Sermon Making Room at the Table Rev. Kikanza Nuri-Robins
*Closing Hymn (standing) #170 We Are a Gentle, Angry People
*Benediction and Chalice Extinguishing
Postlude (seated) Deep River Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Dismissal
*Please stand in body or in spirit
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Greeters: Barbara & Kim Andres, Denise Helton
Ushers: Linda van Ligten & Greg Wood
Coffee: Kit Shaw, Pam Teplitz & Alicia van Ooyen
Welcome Table: Barbara Gibbs
Bookstore: Sarah Harper
Service Notes
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!
About Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: African British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, (August 15, 1875- September 1, 1912), was affectionately referred to in his time as the African “Mahler.” His most popular work, "Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast" for soli, chorus and orchestra, is a shining example of his command of musical form, texture, harmony, and orchestration, which resulted in overnight fame and respect among colleagues that few men of color could have hoped to enjoy in the early twentieth century. Because of his incredible success in a field dominated by white males at a time when racism in America was peaking, Coleridge-Taylor’s influence on African American artists and intellectuals was powerful and far-reaching. Today, in remembrance of the 105th anniversary of his
death, we honor the legacy of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with a selection of his music.
Questions to Ponder
1) Think of a time when you tried to make room at a table for yourself. If you were silenced or felt isolated, what were the circumstances. If you had a seat but no voice, what were the circumstances? Did things change? How?
2) Think of a time when you invited others to sit at a table where you had a place. What was done to make the newcomers welcome and comfortable? How did things change? What did you learn about yourself? …from those who had been invited?