Gathering Hymn

'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free,

'Tis a gift to come down where we ought to be,

And when we find ourselves in the place just right,

'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gained,

To bow and to bend we shan't be ashamed.

To turn, turn, will be our delight,

'Till by turning, turning, we come 'round right.

Welcome

                                                              Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur                                                    

Prelude (9:00)

Choral Prelude (11:00)

Beautiful Love                                                             Victor Young  

Truth Be In My Head                                                      Nicholson                                                                    

Chalice Lighting

Opening Hymn #131

Love Will Guide Us

Covenant

Love is the doctrine of this church.     

The quest of 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, good will on earth be sung

Through every land, by every tongue.           ~ based on Isaac Watts

Offering for the Westside Food Bank

Time for All Ages

Song of Blessing

This Little Light of Mine

A Time for Community

Offertory                  (9:00)                                                                

                                 (11:00)             

Magnificat in G major                                         Alexandre Guilmant                                                            

"Love" from Four Sacred Songs                                                 DiOrio

Devotional Time

  Pastoral Prayer

  Sung Meditation

Silence

Come and find the quiet center in the crowded life we lead,

Find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed:

Clear the chaos and the clutter, clear our eyes that we can see

All the things that really matter, be at peace, and simply be.

Silence is a friend who claims us, cools the heat and slows the pace,

God it is who speaks and names us, knows our being, touches base,

Making space within our thinking, lifting shades to show the sun,

Raising courage when we’re shrinking, finding scope for faith begun.

                    ~  lyrics by Shirley Murray, music attributed to B.F. White

Reading

Blessed Are Those 

             Rev. John Buehrens,  former President of the Unitarian

             Universalist Association                    

Music for the Morning

The Prayer                                                                                      Foster

VanNessa Hulme, soprano and Gabriel Paredes, tenor

Sermon

"Love Will Guide Us"                               Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur                                                     

Closing Song

Come and Go With Me

Benediction

Postlude (9:00)

Choral Postlude (11:00)

Teardrop                                                                        Brian Hargrove

Greater Love Hath No One                                                        Ireland

Extinguishing the Chalice