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Thanksgiving
 
*Gathering Hymn                                   For all that is our life, we give our thanks and praise.
                                                                  For all life is a gift, which we are called to use
                                                                  To build the common good and make our own days glad.
 
                                                                 For needs which others serve, for services we give,
                                                                 For work and its rewards, for hours of rest and love;
                                                                 We come with praise and thanks for all that is our life.
 
Prelude                                                  What a Wonderful World (9am)                                                 Louis Armstrong
                                                                 What a Wonderful World (11am)                                            arr. Glenn Carlos
 
Welcome
 
Chalice Lighting                                  Cheyenne Mason, Sanna Legan and Alexis Restrum
 
*Opening Hymn                                   #21 For the Beauty of the Earth
 
*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                                The Welcome Table
 
Table Blessing                                   For food in a world where many walk in hunger;
                                                              For courage in a world where many walk in fear;
                                                              For friends in a world where many walk alone;
                                                              We give thanks.
 
Song of Blessing                               This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine…
                                                              Everywhere I go, I’m gonna let it shine...
 
Life Together
 
Pulpit Message from the 2015 Commitment Campaign
                                                                                                                         Natalie Kahn (9am) and Abby Arnold (11am)
 
Offering                                                Theme, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving                                        Vince Guaraldi
 
Devotional Time                                  Let Us Give Thanks for a Bounty of People                                        Max Coots
 
Silence
 
Sung Response                                We give thanks this day.
 
Music for the Morning                        Prayer of Thanksgiving (9am)                                                       Daniel Gledhill
                                                               i thank You God (11am)                                                                  Raymond Egan
 
Message                                             Our Song of Thanksgiving
                                                              Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur and Nica Eaton-Guinn
 
Sung Response                                 For sorrow we must bear, for failures, pain, and loss,
                                                              For each new thing we learn, for fearful hours that pass:
                                                              We come with praise and thanks for all that is our life.
 
                                                              For all that is our life, we give our thanks and praise;
                                                              For all life is a gift which we are called to use
                                                              To build the common good and make our own days glad.
 
Sharing Bread
 
*Closing Hymn                                    We Give Thanks
 
*Benediction
 
Musical Response                              Autumn Leaves (9am)                                           arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
                                                               How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place (11am)                                Anton Bruckner
 
*Please stand in body or in spirit
 
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Service Notes
 
Service participants: Abby Arnold, Nancy Babbitt, Sheila Bjornlie, Bonnie Brae, Glen Howell, Nancy
Howell, Natalie Kahn, Carrie Lauer, Leah Moore, Dan Patterson, Kit Shaw, Rima Snyder, Michael
Young, Steve Young, Sylvia Young.
 
Today’s Community Offering will go to Step Up on Second. Step Up delivers compassionate support to
people experiencing serious mental illness to help them recover, stabilize, and integrate into the
community. With 100 permanent supportive housing units at six locations in Santa Monica and on
the Westside of Los Angeles, Step Up now serves over 1,800 individuals each year with a focus on
offering help, hope, and home.
 
For the past 15 years, our church has served a meal to residents at Step Up on Second once a month
without fail. Are you ready to Step Up to volunteer? Please contact hunger@uusm.org.
 
 
 
 
At the Charles Street Meeting House in Boston, we have gathered the symbols and art of the world’s
religions to adorn our place of religious celebration. Thus we declare that they all belong to us, but by
the fact that they are all there, with all their mutual contradictions and identities, we declare that we
belong to none of them, nor to any selection or combination of them.
- Kenneth Patton, humanist, Universalist, and minister of the Charles Street Meeting House, 1949-69.
 
*Gathering Hymn                                          For all that is our life, we give our thanks and praise.
                                                                          For all life is a gift, which we are called to use
                                                                         To build the common good and make our own days glad.
                                                                         
                                                                          For needs which others serve, for services we give,
                                                                          For work and its rewards, for hours of rest and love;
                                                                          We come with praise and thanks for all that is our life.
 
Prelude                                                            Home, The Wiz                                                                        Charlie Smalls
                                                                          Jyvonne Haskin, mezzo soprano
 
Welcome
 
Chalice Lighting                                           Delaney Hutchinson
 
*Opening Hymn                                             #1064 Blue Boat Home
 
*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                                           The Caboose Who Got Loose                                                         Bill Peet
                                                                           McCartney Hutchinson
 
Song of Blessing                                           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 from the 2015 Commitment Campaign                             Leon and Nicole Henderson-MacLennan
 
Offering                                                           A place to be (9am)                                                                 Daniel Gledhill
                                                                         No Time (11am)                                                              arr. Susan Brumfield
 
Devotional Time
 
Silence
 
Sung Response                                             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.
 
Music for the Morning                                   Going Home (9am)                                                          arr. Daniel Gledhill
                                                                          Lead Me Home (11am)                                                              Eric Barnum
 
Sermon                                                            Always Coming Home                                   Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
*Closing Hymn                                              #1054 Let This Be A House of Peace
 
*Benediction
 
Musical Response                                        Autumn Leaves (9am)                                   arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
                                                                         How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place (11am)                        Anton Bruckner
 
*Please stand in body or in spirit
 
❦ ❦ ❦ ❦
 
Service Notes
 
Service participants: Kirk Attebury, Nancy Babbitt, Sue Bickford, Sheila Cummins, Tom Early,
Roberta Frye, Alice Hall, David Olson, Rhonda Peacock, Rick Rhoads, Pam Teplitz, Ned Wright,
Michael Young.
 
The photograph of the Charles Street Meeting House can be found here:
http://www.redbarnrockland.com/bostonreligion_themes.html.
 
Today’s Community Offering will go to Step Up on Second. Step Up delivers compassionate support to
people experiencing serious mental illness to help them recover, stabilize, and integrate into the
community. With 100 permanent supportive housing units at six locations in Santa Monica and on
the Westside of Los Angeles, Step Up now serves over 1,800 individuals each year with a focus on
offering help, hope, and home.
 
For the past 15 years, our church has served a meal to residents at Step Up on Second once a month.
Are you ready to Step Up? Please contact hunger@uusm.org.

 

 
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
-Buckminster Fuller
 
*Gathering Hymn                                           For all that is our life, we give our thanks and praise.
                                                                          For all life is a gift, which we are called to use
                                                                          To build the common good and make our own days glad.
 
Prelude                                                             Remembrance (9am)                                                         Daniel Gledhill
                                                                           Come in Peace (11am)                                                               Brian Tate
 
Welcome
 
Chalice Lighting                                              Nica Eaton-Guinn (9am)
                                                                            Mike Monte (11am)
 
*Opening Hymn                                              #1028 Fire of Commitment
 
*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                                             Higgins: A Drop With a Dream                                   Christopher Buice
 
Song of Blessing                                              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 from the 2015 Commitment Campaign                                 Emily Linnemeier and Jamie Duckman
 
Offering                                                            Send in the Clowns, A Little Night Music (9am)      Stephen Sondheim
                                                                           If I Can Sing, I Still Am Free (11am)                                   Rich Campbell
 
Devotional Time
 
Sung Response                                            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.
 
Music for the Morning                                    Somewhere, West Side Story                                     Leonard Bernstein
                                                                           Colleen Keene, soprano
 
Sermon                                                             What We Talk About When We Talk About Money
                                                                                                                                                      Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
*Closing Hymn                                                #151 I Wish I Knew How
 
*Benediction
 
Musical Response                                         Autumn Leaves (9am)                                     arr. Ralph Vaughn Williams
                                                                           How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place (11am)                       Anton Bruckner
 
*Please stand in body or in spirit
 
 
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Service Notes
 
Today’s floral arrangement is from Rima Snyder, “In memory of my mother, Ione Snyder.”
 
Service participants: Nancy Babbitt, Sanna Egan, Barbara Gibbs, David Goetz, Phyllis Kory, Robert
Kory, Kris Langabeer, Carrie Lauer, Katie Malich, Kit Shaw, Rima Snyder, Linda van Ligten and Ned
Wright.
 
Thank you for your generous gifts of $766.23 for Our House Grief Support Center.
 
Today’s Community Offering will go to Step Up on Second. Step Up delivers compassionate support to
people experiencing serious mental illness to help them recover, stabilize, and integrate into the
community. With 100 permanent supportive housing units at six locations in Santa Monica and on
the Westside of Los Angeles, Step Up now serves over 1,800 individuals each year with a focus on
offering help, hope, and home.
 
Are you ready to Step Up? For the past 15 years, our church has served a meal to residents at Step Up
on Second once a month without fail. Our next volunteer day is Saturday, Nov 15th, and we need 4
more volunteers to help! Please sign up at hunger@uusm.org.
 
Day of the Dead
 
*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.
 
Prelude                                                       Sobre las Olas                                                                          Juventino Rosas
 
Welcome
 
Chalice Lighting
 
*Opening Hymn                                        Fuente de_Amor, ven hacia mí.
                                                                     Y_al corazón, cántale tu compasión.
                                                                     Sopla_al volar, sube_en la mar,
                                                                     hasta moldear la justicia de la vida.
                                                                     Arráigame, libérame,
                                                                     Fuente de_Amor, ven a mí, ven a mí.                      - McDade / trans. Barrios
 
*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                                        La Ofrenda                                                                                        Vilma Ortiz
 
Song of Blessing                                         Vision for humanity, all around the child.
                                                                        Loving as one family, all around the child.
                                                                        Life passages well understood, known and felt around the earth;
                                                                        Light of love and joy extend all around the child.
 
Life Together
 
Pulpit Message from the 2015 Commitment Campaign
 
Story: Part I                                                    Grandmother and the Butterflies
                                                                          from Ghost Wings by Barbara M. Joose
 
Body Prayer
 
Offering                                                           Hundreds of Stories, In the Heights                          Lin-Manuel Miranda
 
Story: Part II                                                    Remembering
 
Bringing Names
 
Interlude                                                         Fly Away                                                                            Nica Eaton-Guinn
 
Butterfly Ritual
 
*Closing Hymn                                               #1001 Breaths
 
*Benediction
 
Musical Response                                       Dos Gardenias                                                                          Isolina Carrillo
 
*Please stand in body or in spirit
 
 
❦ ❦ ❦ ❦
 
Service Notes
 
Service participants: Nancy Babbitt, Steve DePaul, Sanna Egan, Tom Foretich, Denise
Helton, Peggy Kharraz, Diane Macunovich, Peggy Rhoads, Kit Shaw, Rima Snyder,
Linda van Ligten, Alicia van Ooyen, Greg Wood.
 
Today’s Community 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.
 
In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved.
And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious
today?
- Roshi Joan Halifax
 
Gathering Hymn                                      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.
 
Prelude                                                      The Water is Wide (9am)                                                                  Traditional
                                                                     In Paradisum, Requiem in D minor (11am)                           Gabriel Fauré
 
Call to Worship                                         Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
Chalice Lighting                                       Christine Suarez
 
Opening Hymn                                         #322 Thanks Be for These
 
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
 
Song of Blessing                                     Vision for humanity, all around the child.
                                                                    Loving as one family, all around the child.
                                                                    Life passages well understood, known and felt around the earth;
                                                                    Light of love and joy extend all around the child.
 
Life Together
 
Pulpit Message from the 2015 Commitment Campaign                                                                          Rick Rhoads
 
Offering                                                      Looking Back (9am)                                                              Daniel Gledhill
                                                                    Can’t Cry Hard Enough (11am)                                          arr. John Maas
 
Responsive Reading                              #660 To Live Deliberately                                       Henry David Thoreau
 
Devotional Time
 
Sung Response                                       Open my heart to all that I seek;
                                                                    Let me be part of the Love You give.
 
Sermon                                                      Living on the Edge                                                              Nica Eaton-Guinn
 
Music for the Morning                              Being Alive, Company                                                    Stephen Sondheim
                                                                     DeReau K. Farrar, bass-baritone
 
Closing Hymn                                          #331 Life is the Greatest Gift of All
 
Benediction                                              We Are All Dying                                                              Mark Morrison-Reed
 
Musical Response                                  When She Loved Me (9am)                                                    Randy Newman
                                                                    The paper reeds by the brooks (11am)                           Randall Thompson
 
❦ ❦ ❦ ❦
 
There is no need to be afraid of death. It is not the end of the physical body that should
worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive – to release our inner
selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a façade designed to
conform to external definitions of who and what we are. Every individual human being
born on this earth has the capacity to become a unique and special person unlike any
who has ever existed before or will ever exist again… When you live as if you’ll live
forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do. You
live your life in preparation for tomorrow or in remembrance of yesterday, and
meanwhile, each day is lost. In contrast, when you fully understand that each day you
awaken could be the last you have, you take the time that day to grow, to become more
of who you really are, to reach out to other human beings.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
 
 
Service Notes
 
Service participants: Nancy Babbitt, Sheila Bjornlie, Tom Foretich, Barbara Gibbs, Dave
Hallinan, Glen Howell, Nancy Howell, Carrie Lauer, Leah Moore, Sue Stoyanoff, Ned
Wright, Michael Young, Steve Young, Sylvia Young.
 
Our Community 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.
 
Joy and woe are woven fine, clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine, runs a joy with silken twine.
- William Blake (1757-1827)
 
Gathering Hymn                                      We would be one, as now we join in singing
                                                                Our hymn of love to pledge ourselves anew
                                                                To that high cause of greater understanding
                                                                Of who we are, and what in us is true.
                                                                We would be one in living for each other
                                                                To show to all a new community.
 
Prelude                                                     Come Back (9am)                                                             Daniel Gledhill
                                                                 I Will Remember You (11am)                                arr. DeReau K. Farrar
 
Welcome
 
Chalice Lighting                                       Leon Henderson-MacLennan
 
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
 
Story for All Ages
 
Song of Blessing                                       Vision for humanity, all around the child.
                                                                  Loving as one family, all around the child.
                                                                  Life passages well understood, known and felt around the earth;
                                                                  Light of love and joy extend all around the child.
 
Life Together
 
Pulpit Message                                          Ernest D. Pipes Distinguished Lecture Committee
                                                                   Pat McGwire (9am), Diana Spears (11am)
 
Offering                                                     Intermezzo sinfonico, Cavalleria Rusticana             Pietro Mascagni
 
Devotional Time
 
Sung Response                                         When I breathe in, I breathe in peace.
                                                                   When I breathe out, I breathe out love.
 
Music for the Morning                                Clair de lune (9am)                                                     Claude Debussy
                                                                   I Promise Nothing (11am)                                     Jacob Avshalomoff
 
Sermon                                                      Under Every Grief                                    Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
Closing Hymn                                           #17 Every Night and Every Morn
 
Benediction
 
Musical Response                                      When She Loved Me (9am)                                         Randy Newman
                                                                    The paper reeds by the brooks (11am)                 Randall Thompson
 
❦ ❦ ❦ ❦
 
Service Notes
 
Service participants: Kirk Attebury, Nancy Babbitt, Sheila Cummins, Sanna Egan,
Dwight Flowers, Barbara Gibbs, Wendi Gladstone, Dave Goetz, Alice Hall, Michael
Monte, David Olsen, Sue Stoyanoff, Ned Wright, Michael Young.
 
Thank you for your Community Offering last week of $335.37 to benefit Camp Aranu’tiq
for transgender and gender-variant children.
 
Today’s Community 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.
 
  October 12, 2014                                                                                                                        Coming Out Day
 
                                                               It is not our differences that divide us.
                                                               It is our inability to recognize, accept,
                                                         and celebrate those differences. -- Audre Lorde
 
*Gathering Hymn                                  Oh, we give thanks for this special day
                                                              For all gathered here, and those far away
                                                              For this time we share, with love and care
                                                             Oh, we give thanks for this special day.
 
Prelude                                                 Feels Like Home                                                              Randy Newman
                                                             Jennifer Leitham Trio
 
Welcome
 
Chalice Lighting
 
*Opening Hymn                                   #145 As Tranquil Streams
 
*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
 
Story for All Ages                               The Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy
                                                           S. Bear Bergmann, read by Janet Goodwin
 
Song of Blessing                               Vision for humanity, all around the child.
                                                          Loving as one family, all around the child.
                                                          Life passages well understood, known and felt around the earth;
                                                          Light of love and joy extend all around the child.
 
Life Together
 
Offering                                             Future Christmas                                                                 Jennifer Leitham
                                                          Jennifer Leitham Trio
 
Devotional Time
 
Silence
 
Sung Response                                My foot carries days of the old into new,
                                                         Our dreaming shows us the way.
                                                         Wondrous our faith settles deep in the earth,
                                                         Rising green to bring a new day.
                                                         Rising green, rising green, rising green to bring a new day.
 
Music for the Morning                      The Altered Blues                                                                    Jennifer Leitham
                                                         Jennifer Leitham Trio
 
Conversation                                   Being Transgender                                               Janet Goodwin and Liam Mina
 
*Closing Hymn                                #1014 Standing on the Side of Love
 
*Benediction
 
Musical Response                          Split Brain                                                                                 Jennifer Leitham
                                                       Jennifer Leitham Trio
 
*Please stand in body or in spirit
 
 
                                                                         Service Notes
 
Thank you to our service participants: Nancy Babbitt, Steve DePaul, Roberta Frye,
Wendi Gladstone, Kris Langabeer, Katie Malich, Kit Shaw, Pam Teplitz, Linda van
Ligten, Jennifer Westbay.
 
Many thanks to Janet Goodwin, Liam Mina, and Interweave (LGBTQ and Allies) for their
leadership of our annual Coming Out Day service. To lend your support and join the
Interweave email list, please contact Janet at goodwin@ucla.edu.
 
Jennifer Leitham is considered by many to be be one of the finest Jazz bassists in the
world. She began life as John Leitham. In her professional life, she had played with
Woody Herman, George Shearing, Bob Cooper, Benny Carter, Bill Watrous, and Peggy Lee.
After many years of painful struggle, she transitioned publicly to her true self in 2001
while touring with Doc Severinsen. She has maintained a vigorous career and has
achieved much acclaim and acceptance in the years following her transition, including
completion of her premier trio CD, The Real Me (2006). Jennifer is also the subject of a
new documentary by filmmaker Andrea Meyerson, I Stand Corrected, winner of many film
festival Audience Choice and Jury Awards for best film. She is joined today by Andy
Langham on piano and Randy Drake on drums. More information at jenniferleitham.com.
 
Our Community Offering today will go to Camp Aranu’tiq for gender-variant and
transgender youth. Camp Aranu’tiq was founded in 2009 to build confidence, resilience,
and community for transgender and gender-variant youth and their families through camp experiences in New England and California: camparanutiq.org.
 
 
October 5, 2014
 
Gathering Hymn                                 #208 Every Time I Feel the Spirit
 
Call to Worship                                   #419 Look to this day!                                                 attributed to Kalidasa
 
Chalice Lighting                                  Eric Huang
 
Prelude                                               Heaven’s Here On Earth                                                       Tracy Chapman
                                                           James Hayden, bass
 
Opening Hymn                                   #113 Where is Our Holy Church?
 
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
 
Story for All Ages                                Now and Not Yet                                                   Rev. Rick Hoyt-McDaniels
 
Song of Blessing                                 Vision for humanity, all around the child.
                                                            Loving as one family, all around the child.
                                                            Life passages well understood, known and felt around the earth;
                                                            Light of love and joy extend all around the child.
 
Life Together
 
Offering                                               Higher Ground (9am)                                                              Stevie Wonder
                                                            Limitless (11am)                                                                       Michael Abels
 
Devotional Time
 
Sung Response                                 #398 To See The World
 
Music for the Morning                        Opening to Serenade to Music (9am)                      Ralph Vaughan Williams
                                                           City Called Heaven (11am)                                               Josephine Poelinitz
 
Sermon                                              Heaven on Earth                                                     Rev. Rick Hoyt-McDaniels
 
Closing Hymn                                    #312 Here on the Paths of Every Day
 
Benediction                                        #464 And Then                                                                           Judy Chicago
 
Musical Response                             Abide With Me (9am)                                                          arr. Daniel Gledhill
                                                          The paper reeds by the brooks (11am)                            Randall Thompson
 
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Service Notes
 
Service participants: Nancy Babbitt, Tom Early, Tom Foretich, Barbara Gibbs, Denise Helton, Barbara
Kernochan, Diane Macunovich, Peggy Rhoads, Rick Rhoads, Kit Shaw, Rima Snyder, Alicia Van Ooyen.
 
Our Community Offering this month will go to Urban Partners-Los Angeles.
September 28, 2014
 
Gathering Hymn                                    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, nómada_en búsqueda, si_amas la vida.
                                                               La nuestra_es la caravana de_amor. Ven, otra vez ven.
 
Call to Worship
 
Chalice Lighting                                     Bani Adam                                                                                           Saadi
                                                              Jila Tayefehnowrooz & Parsa Arjomandinezhad
 
Prelude                                                  Welcome, Welcome!                                                                   Clif Hardin
 
Opening Hymn                                      #1008 When Our Heart Is in a Holy Place
 
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
 
Story for All Ages                                   The Name Jar                                                                       Yangsook Choi
 
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                                                   Loving You (9am)                                                                Daniel Gledhill
                                                                Ubi Caritas (11am)                                                                   Dominic Fox
 
Reading                                                  This is the mission of our faith:
                                                               To teach the fragile art of hospitality;
                                                               To revere both the critical mind and the generous heart;
                                                                To prove that diversity need not mean divisiveness;
                                                                And to witness to all that we must hold the whole world in our hands.
                                                                                                                                                         William F. Schultz
 
Devotional Time
 
Sung Response                                      #1031 Filled With Loving Kindness
 
Sermon                                                   Welcoming the Stranger                                               Nica Eaton-Guinn
 
Music for the Morning                             There’s Got to Be a Way                                 Mariah Carey & Ric Wake
                                                                Jyvonne Haskin, mezzo soprano
 
Closing Hymn                                          #1053 How Could Anyone
 
Benediction
 
Musical Response                                  Theme from Somewhere in Time (9am)                                 John Barry
                                                                Love is... (11am)                                                            Marjorie Herman
 
 
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How do you feel about difference? How might you welcome the stranger?
We invite you to discuss this and the reading below with someone during coffee hour
or during the patio chat after the 9 am service.
 
What if we were to be together and listen to each other's comments with a willingness to expose rather
than to confirm our own beliefs and opinions? What if we were to willingly listen to one another with the
awareness that we each see the world in unique ways? And with the expectation that I could learn
something new if I listen for the differences rather than the similarities? We have this opportunity many
times in a day, every day. What might we see, what might we learn, what might we create together, if we
become this kind of listener, one who enjoys the differences and welcomes in disturbance? I know we
would be delightfully startled by how much difference there is. And then we would be wonderfully
comforted by how much closer we became, because every time we listen well, we move towards each
other. From our new thoughts and our new companions, we would all become wiser.
                                                                                                                       (Margaret Wheatley, mid-20th century)
 
 
 
Service Notes
 
Service participants: Nancy Babbitt, Steve DePaul, Tom Foretich, Glen Howell, Diane Macunovich, Dan
Patterson, Kit Shaw, Sue Stoyanoff, Alicia Van Ooyen, Michael Young, Steve Young, Sylvia Young
 
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, including lobbying members of congress to inform
them of the situation and to urge them to keep in place existing protections for unaccompanied children migrants.
 
 
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
 
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Service Notes
 
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.