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	Order of Service, Nov. 15, 2015 November 15, 2015 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. - Emily Dickinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gathering Hymn Enter, Rejoice, and Come In* arr. Betty A. Wylder Enter, rejoice, and come in. Enter, rejoice, and come in. Today will be a joyful day; Enter, rejoice, and come in. Open your hearts, everyone. Open your hearts, everyone. Today will be a joyful day; Enter, rejoice, and come in. Prelude A Simple Song Daniel Gledhill Welcome Rev. Tera Little Chalice Lighting Heart to Heart Circles Ken Alexander (9am) Kirk Attebury (11am) Opening Hymn #349 We Gather Together* 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 Know Yourself Traditional Song of Blessing What Gift Can We Bring Jane Marshall What gift can we bring, what present, what token? What words can convey it, the joy of this day? When grateful we come, rememb’ring, rejoicing, What song can we offer in honor and praise? This gift we now bring, this present, this token, These words can convey it, the joy of this day! When grateful we come, rememb’ring, rejoicing, This song we now offer in honor and praise! Life Together Pulpit Message Commitment Campaign 2016 Olga Felton Offering Money, Money, Money (9am) Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus Bringing in the Sheaves (11am) arr. DeReau K. Farrar Devotional Time Silence Sung Response #18 What Wondrous Love Responsive Reading #468 We Need One Another Music for the Morning Prelude, Op. 28, No. 22 (9am) Frédéric Chopin Melodies Steal Into My Heart (11am) Antonín Dvořák Sermon From Locusts to Honeybees Rev. Tera Little Closing Hymn #131 Love Will Guide Us* Benediction Musical Response Each Life That Touches Ours for Good* (9am) Laurence Lyon Wonder Blessing (11am) Susanne Maziarz Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Floral Donation : This week's flowers are dedicated to the loving memory of our wonderful son and brother, Travis deZarn who was tragically killed at the age of 18 in a car accident 8 years ago on 11/3/07. Not a day goes by that we don't think of you and miss your smiling face. We love you always! Mom, Dad and Emma deZarn. Greeters: Dwight Flowers, Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone & David Olson Ushers: Tom Early, Barbara Kernochan, Ned wright & Michael Young Coffee: Sheila Cummins, Alice Hall, Eileen McCormack & Pam Teplitz Welcome Table: Wendi Gladstone & Rhonda Peacock Bookstore: Mark Warkentin Service Notes* This month, 60% of the non-pledge offering will go to Step up on Second. Step up on Second provides help, hope and a home for individuals affected by mental illness. Each day, Step Up sees 100 individuals and offers 22 programs in a continuum of care, all free of charge. For over a decade, volunteers from our church served a meal to residents at Step Up on Second on the 4th Saturday of the month, and we continue to reach out to our neighbors at Step Up in any way we can.
	Order of service, Nov. 1st, 2015, VESPERS November 1, 2015 Remembrance Vespers “Love isn’t about what we did yesterday. It’s about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after.” - Grace Lee Boggs (1915 - 2015) Prelude Introit & Kyrie Chalice Lighting Rev. Rick Hoyt-McDaniels Opening Hymn #101 Abide with Me* Reading The End Mark Strand James Hayden (1934 - 2014) Selection Graduale Silence Responsive Reading We remember them. Kevin Smith Selection Dies Irae Offering Offertorium Colleen Keene, soprano; Jyvonne Haskin, mezzo soprano Gabriel Paredes, tenor; James Hayden, bass Litany You are not forgotten. Candle Lighting Sanctus Silence Devotional Hymn #199 Precious Lord, Take My Hand Reading The Gaffe Charles Kenneth Williams Rima Snyder (1936 - 2015) Selection Pie Jesu Hymn #1002 Comfort Me Benediction Rev. Rick Hoyt-McDaniels Postlude Agnus Dei* Please stand in body or in spirit Service Notes* Our offering tonight will benefit the Music Fund. Service Participants: Dan Patterson, Mike Reivitis. Grief is a natural reaction after the death of someone close. Yet in our society few people are prepared for the intensity and duration of the grief process. Our House Grief Support Center was founded on the premise that grievers need understanding, support, and connection. If you or someone you care about is grieving, Our House is here to help. For support: 1.888.417.1444. www.ourhouse-grief.org. A few thoughts about Luigi Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor Music set for the occasion of loss, requiems being principal among them, usually fit into three distinct categories, in my view. There are the dark and mournful settings, such as in the famous requiems by Brahms and Mozart. There are the light and celestial settings, such as in the requiem by Durufle and in Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna. And, there are the flashy fanfare settings, meant to be honorable and show esteem, such as in Verdi’s requiem setting. In Cherubini’s rather characteristic setting, we clearly see the transition from the reverent, though playful early classical composers like Mozart into the bolder and more charismatic sounds of early romantic composers like Brahms. In this way, he was much like his contemporary colleague and frenemy, Beethoven. Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor is actually the first of two settings he wrote. It was composed to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the beheading of Louis XVI of France in the French Revolution. It was later censored by the archbishop of Paris for its use of female voices, prompting Cherubini to write a second requiem in D minor for men only. We hope you enjoy this rarely performed work and that it can be meaningful to you and your loved ones in this time of loss. - DeReau K. Farrar, Director of Music
	Order of Service, Nov. 26, 2017 "A Sunday Kind of Love" November 26, 2017 “A Sunday Kind of Love” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gathering Hymn #361 Enter, Rejoice and Come In* Call to Worship Margot Page, Worship Associate Chalice Lighting #447 by Albert Schweitzer (Congregation in unison) At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. Music for the Morning A Sunday Kind of Love by Barbara Belle with Jyvonne Haskin Welcome Opening Hymn #123 Spirit of Life/Fuente de Amor* 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 “Where The Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak Song of Blessing #407 We're Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table Life Together Offering This November, we are giving thanks by partnering with the Guest At Your Table program of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Offertory Anthem Come Sunday by Duke Ellington with Jyvonne Haskin Reading / Reflection Song for the Unsung Steve J. Crump Guided Meditation Rev. Lee Marie Sanchez Silence Musical Response #123 Spirit of Life Sermon A Sunday Kind of Love Rev. Lee Marie Sanchez Going Deeper Our church community is precious. How can you tap into our community and create A Sunday Kind of Love to sustain you throughout your week? Ideas: Think about the message of the sermon, read poetry, go to a meeting, join a class, call a church friend, get involved in some way. Closing Hymn #34 Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire* Benediction Rev. Lee Marie Sanchez Invitation to Fellowship Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Greeters: James Duckman (9am); Kirk Attebury, Michael Young & Steve Young (11am) Ushers: Bonnie Brae & Peggy Kharraz (9am); Tom Foretich & Ned Wright (11am) Coffee: Sheila Bjornlie & Leah Moore (9am); Katie Malich (11am) Welcome Table: Barbara Gibbs (9am); Carol Ring (11am) Bookstore: Sarah Harper (9am & 11am) Service Notes Today, 40% of our offering will go to the Guest At Your Table program of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee; who partners with 75 grassroots agencies in over 24 countries to encourage and enhance the global march toward human rights for all. Each week, we share a story of one of the groups that our generosity supports. This week’s focus is on Rosemary Dodd, who became aware that Central American migrants have been being treated more like criminals than who they actually are: survivors of trauma pursuing their legal right to seek asylum. The Obama administration opened new family detention centers in 2014; but since then, U.S. immigration officials have been locking up asylum-seeking families in prison-like conditions (for-profit family detention centers) — despite multiple court rulings documenting inhumane conditions and damaging impacts on mental and emotional health. Please click on the link in the weekly announcements if you would like to know more about Rosemary Dodd and her work with the RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) project. Your generosity translates directly into love and justice. Thank you for giving to the greater good which brings us all a little closer to global consciousness. Rev. Lee Marie Sanchez is currently serving the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Laguna Beach. She has been a religious professional for twenty-four years; she began as a DRE in Washington State, worked as a Hospital/Hospice Chaplain for two years and served as a Student/Consulting Minister for both the Anaheim UU Church and the Sepulveda UU Society. She has preached in over three dozen UU congregations.
	Order of Service, Nov. 27, 2016 - A Happy Place November 27, 2016 I will tell you something about stories. They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have. All we have to fight off illness and death. You don’t have anything if you don’t have stories. -- Leslie Marmon Silko ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gathering Hymn #16 ‘Tis a Gift to be Simple ‘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, ‘til by turning, turning we come ‘round right. Prelude Joyful, joyful we adore thee Ludwig van Beethoven Welcome Chalice Lighting Wisdom from the Dalai Lama Coloring Page 1 Opening Hymn #108 My Life Flows On* 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 Coloring Page 2 Time for All Ages Donkey for a Day A. A. Milne Song of Blessing #414 As We Leave This Friendly Place 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 Coloring Page 3 Offering Jesu, joy of all’s desiring J.S. Bach Becky Erskine, violin Meditation Sung Response #1008 Meditation on Breathing Coloring Page 4 When I breathe in, I breathe in peace When I breathe out, I breathe out love. Reading Waiting At the Window A. A. Milne Music for the Morning Gymnopedie Eric Satie Sermon A Happy Place Coloring Page 6 Kathleen Hogue, Director of Religious Exploration Closing Song Don’t Worry, Be Happy* Bobby McFerrin Benediction Musical Response Amen in Bb Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Greeters: Glen Howell, Kris Langabeer, Michael Young & Steve Young Ushers: Nina Emerson, Tom Foretich, Peggy Kharraz & Jila Tayefehnowrooz Coffee: Sheila Bjornlie, Nancy Howell, Leah Moore & Sylvia Young Welcome Table: Kris Langabeer & Carol Ring Bookstore: Sarah Harper Service Notes* Today 40% of our non-pledge offering will go to the Westside Coalition: Housing Hunger Health, (WC). The Westside Coalition, (formerly the Westside Shelter & Hunger Coalition), is an alliance of 44 organizations, public agencies and faith communities committed to ending hunger and homelessness through service coordination, public education and advocacy. The coalition was founded in 1982 to serve the Westside of Los Angeles County and is the oldest coalition in the county working on behalf of the homeless. Please save the date: the 2017 Santa Monica Homeless Count will take place on Wed, Jan 25, 2017 from 10:30pm to 2:30am. This annual volunteer and city-led effort measures progress toward ending homelessness and gives a snapshot of who is experiencing homelessness and where they are located.
	Order of Service, Nov. 5, 2017 "Day of the Dead" 5 November 2017 Day of the Dead ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gathering Hymn #360 Here We Have Gathered* Call to Worship Vilma Ortiz, worship associate Chalice Lighting Vilma Ortiz Music for the Morning Hallelujah (9am) by Leonard Cohen performed by Emma deZarn Hostias (11am) by W. A. Mozart Welcome Kathleen Hogue Opening Hymn #301 Touch the Earth, Reach the Sky!* 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 Ofrenda Vilma Ortiz Life Together Pulpit Message Story, Part One Uncle Monarch & the Butterflies Kathleen Hogue Offering Vilma Ortiz Offertory Anthem Over the Rainbow (9am) by Harold Arlen performed by Emma deZarn Lux Aeterna (11am) by W. A. Mozart Meditation Body Prayer Silence Story, Part Two Uncle Monarch & the Butterflies Kathleen Hogue Invitation Butterflies Responsive Reading #721 They Are With Us Still Closing Hymn #123 Spirit of Life* Benediction Musical or Choral Benediction Invitation to Fellowship Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Greeters: [9am: Denise Helton] [11am: Barbara & Kim Andres, and Tom Foretich] Ushers: [9am: Tom Early & Barbara Kernochan] [11am: Hugo Contreras & Ned Wright] Coffee: [9am:Kit Shaw & Licia van Ooyen] [11am:Deirdre Dietel] Welcome Table: [9am: Barbara Gibbs] [11am:Linda van Ligten] Bookstore: [9am & 11am: Sarah Harper] Service Notes Today, 40% of our offering will go to continue to help relieve those affected by hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. With so many recent natural disasters, and relief aid often falling through the cracks, we want to make sure to dedicate ourselves to relief efforts in Puerto Rico and make sure those affected by the recent storms are still not forgotten. Flower Dedication: The flowers today are given by Tim, Janine and Emma deZarn in loving memory of their son and brother, Travis Lucas deZarn, who died in a car accident on November 3, 2007. Travis, even though it has been ten years, we still miss you and think of you every day. You are always with us, carried in our hearts forever. About Guest Artist Emma deZarn: Emma deZarn is a senior at Culver City High School and is singing today in loving memory of her brother, Travis, who was tragically killed in a car accident ten years ago. Travis had just turned 18 and was a freshman in college at Cal State Long Beach. Though Emma was only 7 at the time, she remembers Travis as a kind and loving brother. Emma is currently applying to colleges (her favorites are Georgetown and Boston College), and has interests in political science, foreign relations and musical theater. Emma would like to thank John DeFaria for accompanying her today. He is a long-time family friend as well as an accomplished musician and composer. Both Emma and her parents, Janine and Tim, cherish their happy memories of Travis and keep him in their hearts always. The text for today’s musical selections by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), is taken from the Roman liturgy of the Mass for the Dead, specifically “ Hostias et preces ” meaning Oblations and Prayers and "Lux Aeterna" meaning Eternal Light.
	Order of Service, Nov. 6, 2016 "The Joy of Generosity" November 6, 2016 I will tell you something about stories. They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have. All we have to fight off illness and death. You don’t have anything if you don’t have stories. -- Leslie Marmon Silko --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gathering Hymn #16 ‘Tis a Gift to Be Simple ‘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, ‘til by turning, turning we come ‘round right. Prelude Claire de lune Claude Debussy Welcome Chalice Lighting YRUU Youth Group Opening Hymn #126 Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing* 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 #413 Go Now in Peace Natalie Sleeth Go now in peace, go now in peace May the spirit of love surround you, as you go, as you go On your way. Life Together Pulpit Message Board of Directors Jacki Weber (9am) Ron Crane (11am) Speaker Almost Unconditional Love Len Harris Offering Pie Jesu Gabriel Faure Devotional Time Silence Sung Response #123 Spirit of Life Responsive Reading #646 The Larger Circle Wendell Berry Music for the Morning Komm Süsser Tod J.S. Bach Sermon Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur Closing Hymn #1064 Blue Boat Home* Benediction Musical Response Amen in Bb* Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Greeters: Tom Foretich, Barbara Gibbs & Denise Helton Ushers: Bonnie Brae, Peggy Kharraz, Dan Patterson & Rick Rhoads Coffee: Deirdre Dietel, Peggy Rhoads, Kit Shaw & Alicia van Ooyen Welcome Table: Linda van Ligten Bookstore: Sarah Harper Service Notes* Today 40% of our non-pledge offering will go to the Westside Coalition: Housing Hunger Health, (WC). The Westside Coalition, (formerly the Westside Shelter & Hunger Coalition), is an alliance of 44 organizations, public agencies and faith communities committed to ending hunger and homelessness through service coordination, public education and advocacy. The coalition was founded in 1982 to serve the Westside of Los Angeles County and is the oldest coalition in the county working on behalf of the homeless. Please save the date: the 2017 Santa Monica Homeless Count will take place on Wed, Jan 25, 2017 from 10:30pm to 2:30am. This annual volunteer and city-led effort measures progress toward ending homelessness and gives a snapshot of who is experiencing homelessness and where they are located. Pie Jesu Translation: Pious Lord Jesus, give them rest.
	Order of Service, November 22, 2015 November 22, 2015 “And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” - Rainer Maria Rilke ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gathering Hymn Come, Come, Whoever You Are* Lynn Adair Ungar Come, come, whoever you are, Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. Ours is no caravan of despair. Come, yet again come. Ven, ven cual eres, ven, Nómada͜ en búsqueda, si͜ amas la vida. La nuestra͜_es la caravana de͜_amor. Ven, otra vez ven. Prelude How Lucky You Are (9am) Daniel Gledhill If I Can Sing, I Still Am Free (11am) Rich Campbell Welcome Leon Henderson-MacLennan Chalice Lighting Opening Hymn #67 We Sing Now Together* 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 As You Leave This Friendly Place Johann Sebastian Bach As you leave this friendly place, love give light to every face; May the kindness which you learn light your hearts ‘til you return. Life Together Offering Thanksgiving Theme Vince Guaraldi Devotional Time Excerpt from Letters to a Young Poet Rainer Maria Rilke Rev. Dr. Kikanza J. Nuri-Robins Silence Sung Response Comfort Me arr. Susan Peck Oh we give thanks for this precious day. For all gathered here, and those far away; For this time we share, with love and care Oh we give thanks for this precious day Responsive Reading #727 The Bread We Share Music for the Morning My Favorite Things, The Sound of Music (9am) Richard Rodgers Acceptance (11am) Daniel Gledhill Sermon For This We Are Thankful? Rev. Dr. Kikanza J. Nuri-Robins Closing Hymn #128 For All That Is Our Life* Benediction Rev. Dr. Kikanza J. Nuri-Robins Musical Response Each Life That Touches Ours for Good* (9am) Laurence Lyon Wonder Blessing (11am) Susanne Maziarz Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Greeters: Dwight Flowers, Glen Howell, Michael Young & Steve Young Ushers: Steve DePaul, David Goetz, Dan Patterson & Ned Wright Coffee: Sheila Bjornlie, Nancy Howell, Leah Moore & Sylvia Young Welcome Table: Barbara Gibbs & Kria Langabeer Bookstore: Mark Warkentin Service Notes* This month, 60% of the non-pledge offering will go to Step up on Second. Step up on Second provides help, hope and a home for individuals affected by mental illness. Each day, Step Up sees 100 individuals and offers 22 programs in a continuum of care, all free of charge. For over a decade, volunteers from our church served a meal to residents at Step Up on Second on the 4th Saturday of the month, and we continue to reach out to our neighbors at Step Up in any way we can.
	Order of Service, November 29, 2015 November 29, 2015 “Home is an idea rather than a place. It’s where you feel safe. Where you’re among people who are kind to you – they’re not after you; they don’t have to like you – but they’ll not hurt you. And if you’re in trouble they’ll help you… It’s community.” - Toni Morrison ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gathering Hymn Come, Come, Whoever You Are* Lynn Adair Ungar Come, come, whoever you are, Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. Ours is no caravan of despair. Come, yet again come. Ven, ven cual eres, ven, Nómada͜ en búsqueda, si͜ amas la vida. La nuestra͜ es la caravana de͜ amor. Ven, otra vez ven. Prelude For Dad Daniel Gledhill Welcome Abby Arnold Chalice Lighting Abby Arnold Opening Hymn #6 Just as Long as I Have Breath* 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 Stone Soup Jon J. Muth Abby Arnold Song of Blessing From You I Receive Joseph Segal & Nathan Segal From you I receive, to you I give, Together we share, and from this we live. Life Together Offering Menuet, Le Tombeau de Couperin Maurice Ravel Devotional Time Genesis 49:22-26 Rev. Dr. Kikanza J. Nuri-Robins Silence Sung Response Comfort Me Mimi Bornstein-Doble Comfort me...oh my soul. Sing with me...oh my soul. Speak for me...oh my soul. Dance with me...oh my soul. Comfort me...oh my soul. Responsive Reading #468 We Need One Another Music for the Morning Part of Your World, The Little Mermaid Alan Menken Sermon Fish Out of Water Rev. Dr. Kikanza J. Nuri-Robins Closing Hymn #1053 How Could Anyone* Benediction Rev. Dr. Kikanza J. Nuri-Robins Musical Response Each Life That Touches Ours for Good* Laurence Lyon Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Greeters: Bryan Cahill & fUUsion ℅ Karen Patterson Ushers: Bonnie Brae, Tom Foretich, Peggy Kharraz & Rick Rhoads Coffee: Resa Foreman, Jila Tayefehnowrooz, Alicia Van Ooyen & Jennifer Westbay Welcome Table: Barbara Gibbs & Carol Ring Bookstore: Mark Warkentin Service Notes* This month, 60% of the non-pledge offering will go to Step up on Second. Step up on Second provides help, hope and a home for individuals affected by mental illness. Each day, Step Up sees 100 individuals and offers 22 programs in a continuum of care, all free of charge. For over a decade, volunteers from our church served a meal to residents at Step Up on Second on the 4th Saturday of the month, and we continue to reach out to our neighbors at Step Up in any way we can.
	Order of Service, Oct 11, 2015 "Are We There Yet?" October 11, 2015 Coming Out Sunday -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gathering Hymn Love Will Guide Us* arr. Betty A. Wylder Love will guide us, peace has tried us, Hope inside us will lead the way On the road from greed to giving. Love will guide us through the hard night. Prelude Lush Life Billy Strayhorn Welcome Janet Goodwin Chalice Lighting DeReau Farrar (9am) David Titkin, amBi (11am) Opening Hymn #298 Wake, Now, My Senses* 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 My Princess Boy Cheryl Kilodavis Song of Blessing I Know This Rose Will Open Mary E. Grigolia I know this rose will open. I know my fear will burn away. I know my soul will unfurl its wings. I know this rose will open. Life Together Offering It Gets Better Daniel Gledhill Devotional Time Rev. Dr. Jonipher Kwong Sung Response I Know I Can arr. Mark Freundt Though days be dark with storms And burdens weigh my heart Though troubles wait at every turn, I know I can go on. And though the journey is long, The destination is near, Though troubles wait at every turn, I know I can go on. Pulpit Message Anitra Winder Responsive Reading #584 A Network of Mutuality Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Music for the Morning Blessing Scott Alan Gabriel Paredes, tenor Sermon Are We There Yet? Rev. Dr. Jonipher Kwong Closing Hymn #1014 Standing on the Side of Love* Benediction #562 A Lifelong Sharing* Mother Teresa Musical Response Prelude, Op. 53, No. 9 Nikolai Kapustin Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Chancel Adornment: Today the chancel is decorated with a tree from the Brownlie-Oakes-Michaelson family in memory of Greg Oakes who left this earth on October 7, 2014. Greg was a loving father and grandfather and who is dearly missed. Greeters: Dwight Flowers, Barbara Gibbs & Katie Malich Ushers: Dave Goetz, Rick Rhoads, Kit Shaw & Jila Tayefehnowrooz Coffee: Sanna Egan, Robert & Phyllis Kory, Linda van Ligten Welcome/Visitors Table: Barbara Gibbs Bookstore: Nancy Babbitt Service Notes* Today, 60% of our offering will go to The Children’s Collective, Inc. providing high quality, comprehensive, educational and family support services to women, minorities, children, youth, families and other adults in South Los Angeles. Each year, the Children’s Collective serves over 12,000 clients in 18 programs in Greater Crenshaw, Manchester/Figueroa, and Exposition Los Angeles. The Yellow Butterfly is the symbol of the Children’s Collective to reflect its charge of Transforming People...Changing Lives. www.childrenscollective.org Interweave co-sponsors the Westside Bi-Social Chat together with amBi, a social community for bisexual, pansexual, queer and fluid adults and allies: http://www.meetup.com/amBiLA/ Meetings take place every 4th Tuesday from 8:00-9:30pm in Forbes, room 1: http://www.ambi.org/events/la5 . The monthly chat was started by Judy Federick, longtime leader of Interweave, and Vishal Hara of amBi. Today, we remember Judy and her many contributions to Interweave.
	Order of Service, Oct 16, 2016 "Perfect Strangers" October 16, 2016 “Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gathering Hymn Bind us together, bind us together, with cords that cannot be broken* Bind us together, bind us together, bind us together with love. Prelude Come Sunday Duke Ellington Welcome Chalice Lighting Michael Eselun Opening Hymn #298 Wake Now My Senses* 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 #118 This Little Light of Mine Traditional Life Together Pulpit Message Stewardship Offering Musical Meditation (9am) Sanctus, Benedictus (11am) Antonio Lotti Holy, holy, holy One God of power and might Heaven and Earth are full of your glory Hosanna in the highest Blessed is the one who comes in the name of God Hosanna in the highest Devotional Time Silence Sung Response #34 Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire Responsive Reading Excerpt from “Kindness” Naomi Shihab Nye Music for the Morning There is a Balm in Gilead William L. Dawson Sermon Perfect Strangers Michael Eselun Closing Hymn #1021 Lean on Me* Benediction Musical Response Umoja* Zanaida Robles Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Greeters: Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone, Audrey Lyness & David Olson Ushers: Bonnie Brae, Dan Patterson, Jila Tayefehnowrooz & Ned Wright Coffee: Sheila Cummins, Alice Hall, Eileen McCormack & Pam Teplitz Welcome Table: Wendi Gladstone Bookstore: Sarah Harper Service Notes* Today 40% of our non-pledge offering will go to Our House Grief Support Center. Grief is a natural reaction after the death of someone close. In our society few people are prepared for the intensity and duration of the grief process. Our House was founded on the premise that grievers need understanding, support, and connection. For twenty-one years, Our House has helped thousands of grieving children, teens, and adults as they embark upon a journey to hope and healing. Responsive Reading: Excerpt from “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to mail letters and purchase bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.
	Order of Service, Oct 18, 2015 "Lessons in Letting Go" October 18, 2015 To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, let it go. - Mary Oliver ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gathering Hymn Morning Has Broken* Traditional Morning has broken like the first morning, Blackbird has spoken like the first bird. Praise for the singing! Praise for the morning! Praise for them, springing fresh from the word! Prelude Clair de Lune (9am) Claude Debussy There Will Be Stars, Constellation (11am) Frank Ticheli Welcome Chalice Lighting Anna-Livia Martin-Straw & Katie Mayo-Smith (9am) Paice Van Ooyen (11am) Opening Hymn #108 My Life Flows On in Endless Song* 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 Brave Raven Rev. Aaron McEmrys Song of Blessing Touch the Earth, Reach the Sky! Grace Lewis-McLaren Touch the earth, reach the sky! Walk on shores while spirits fly over the ocean, over the land, our faith a quest to understand. Touch the earth, reach the sky! Children ask the reasons why. In our lives the answers show, and by our love they learn and grow. Life Together Offering Nocturne in B♭ Major Maria Szymanowska Devotional Time Silence Sung Response The Lone, Wild Bird William Walker The lone, wild bird in lofty flight Is still with thee, nor leaves thy sight. And I am thine! I rest in thee. Great spirit come and rest in me. The ends of earth are in thy hand, The sea’s dark deep and far-off land. And I am thine! I rest in thee. Great spirit come and rest in me. Reading Lines Written in the Days of Growing Darkness Mary Oliver Music for the Morning Dyin’ Ain’t So Bad, Bonnie & Clyde (9am) Frank Wildhorn This Woman’s Work (11am) arr. Jennifer Kinghorn Sermon Lessons in Letting Go Rev. Tera Little Closing Hymn #151 I Wish I Knew How Benediction Musical Response Prelude, Op. 53, No. 9 (9am) Nikolai Kapustin Puisque Tout Passe (11am) Paul Hindemith * Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Greeters: Roberta Frye, Wendi Gladstone, David Olson & Karen Patch Ushers: Peggy Kharraz, Dan Patterson, Ned Wright & Michael Young Coffee: Sheila Cummins, Alice Hall & Pam Teplitz Welcome Table: Wendi Gladstone & Carol Ring Bookstore: Nancy Babbitt Service Notes Today, 60% of our non-pledge offering will go to Our House Grief Support Center. Grief is a natural reaction after the death of someone close. Yet in our society few people are prepared for the intensity and duration of the grief process. Our House was founded on the premise that grievers need understanding, support, and connection. If you or someone you care about is grieving, we are here to help. For support: 1.888.417.1444. http:// www.ourhouse-grief.org.
	Order of Service, Oct. 23, 2016 "Bodies, Blessings & Bucket Lists" October 23, 2016 We’re all just penciled in. ~ Stan Freberg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Gathering Hymn Gracias por el amor arr. William James Ross Gracias por el amor del cielo, gracias por el inmenso mar, Gracias por el cantar del bosque. ¡Aleluya! Gracias por este nuevo día, gracias por nuestra gran unión, Gracias por todas las bondades. ¡Aleluya! Prelude Winds Be Still Samuel Sebastian Wesley Welcome Chalice Lighting Opening Hymn #305 De Colores* 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 #413 Go Now in Peace Natalie Sleeth Go now in peace, go now in peace May the spirit of love surround you, as you go, as you go On your way. Life Together Tribute to Ernie Pipes Rev. Judith Meyer, Minister Emerita Pulpit Message Stewardship Committee Katie Malich Offering Etude Opus 33 No. 2 (9am) Sergei Rachmaninoff Introitus (11am) Antonio Lotti Devotional Time Silence Sung Response #1009 Meditation on Breathing When I breathe in, I breathe in peace. When I breathe out, I breathe out love. Reading This is It James Broughton Music for the Morning Deep River (9am) Traditional Spiritual Alleluia (11am) Alan Hovhaness Sermon Bodies, Blessings, and Bucket Lists Rev. Bill Schulz Closing Hymn #108 My Life Flows On in Endless Song* Benediction Musical Response Umoja, Unity* Zanaida Robles Please stand in body or in spirit ❦ ❦ ❦ ❦ Greeters: Glen Howell, Kris Langabeer, Michael Young & Steve Young Ushers: Tom Early, David Goetz, Dan Patterson & Rick Rhoads Coffee: Sheila Bjornlie, Nancy Howell, Leah Moore & Sylvia Young Welcome Table: Kris Langabeer & Carol Ring Bookstore: Sarah Harper Service Notes* Flowers: Today's flowers are donated by Alicia Wood and dedicated to Linda van Ligten and Greg Wood. Congratulations on your 30th Anniversary! And Happy Birthday to Greg Wood! Today 40% of our non-pledge offering will go to Our House Grief Support Center. Grief is a natural reaction after the death of someone close. Since 1993, Our House has helped thousands of grieving children, teens, and adults as they embark upon a journey to hope and healing. Rev. Bill Schulz, recently retired from full-time ministry and from the presidency of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, is a senior fellow in human rights at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and an affiliated minister at Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. Introitus Translation: Eternal rest, grant to them, O God. And may light perpetual shine upon them. A hymn, O God, becomes you in Zion, And a vow shall be made to you in Jerusalem. O God, hear my prayer. To you, all flesh comes.

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