September 21, 2014

 

Gathering Hymn                                       Gathered here in the mystery of the hour,

                                                                 Gathered here in one strong body,

                                                                 Gathered here in the struggle and the power.

                                                                 Spirit draw near.

 

Chalice Lighting                                        Patrick Meighan

 

Prelude                                                     On My Own from Les Miserables (9am)      Claude-Michel Schoenberg

                                                                 Oh Love Divine (11am)                                      George Frederic Handel

 

Opening Hymn                                          #1000 Morning Has Come

 

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 and Turning Point

 

Time for All Ages                                         Teacher Commissioning

 

Song of Blessing                                          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

 

Offering                                                        Love                                                                              Taalib Johnson

                                                                     DeReau K. Farrar, bass-baritone

 

Devotional Time

            Reflective Reading                          A Brave and Startling Truth                                          Maya Angelou

            Silence and Meditation

 

Sermon                                                       Beloved Community: Building a World Transformed By Our Care

                                                                                                                                    Rev. Manish Mishra-Manzetti

 

Closing Hymn                                             #121 We’ll Build a Land

 

Benediction

 

Postlude                                                    Theme from Somewhere in Time (9am)                              John Barry

                                                                   Love is... (11am)                                                          Marjorie Herman

 

 

Service participants: Kirk Attebury, Nancy Babbitt, Sue Bickford, Sheila Cummins, Dwight Flowers,

Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone, David Goetz, Alice Hall, Barbara Kernochan, Peggy Kharraz, David Olsen,

Pam Tepitz & Michael Young.

 

A very warm welcome to Reverend Manish Mishra-Marzetti. Rev. Mishra-Marzetti is Senior Minister of

our congregation in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti has over twenty years of

professional experience, encompassing the fields of ministry, diplomacy, and education. In addition, he’s

an accomplished student of psychology. Rev. Mishra-Marzetti has served six Unitarian Universalist

congregations in varying forms of ministry, and before that was an active lay leader and Board member

at one of our denomination’s most historic churches.

 

Our Community Offering this month will go to the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN).

CARECEN is a community organization which provides legal assistance, advocacy and organizational skills,

and educational programs for Central Americans and the larger community in Los Angeles. Its work on

behalf of the children refugees includes legal representation, counseling in coordination with mental

health services to help them cope with the violence many of them have experienced in their home

countries and during their migration, and advocacy to keep in place existing protections for unaccompanied children immigrants.