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September 14, 2014
 
Gathering Hymn                                     Surprised by joy no song can tell, no thought can compass, here we stand
                                                                to celebrate eternal love, to reach for one another’s hand.
 
                                                               When we are lonely and afraid, in need of kindness, here we stand
                                                               to celebrate eternal love, to reach for one another’s hand.
 
Call to Worship                                       #437 Let Us Worship
 
Chalice Lighting                                      Emily Hero
 
Prelude                                                   On My Own from Les Miserables                  Claude-Michel Schoenberg
 
Opening Hymn                                       #209 O Come You Longing, Thirsty Souls
 
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                                     As you leave this friendly place, love give light to ev’ry face.
                                                                May the kindness which you learn, light your hearts ‘til you return.
 
Life Together
 
Community Speaker (11am)                    Angela Sanbrano, Central American Resource Center (CARECEN)
 
Offering                                                    I Can’t Make You Love Me                            Mike Reid & Allen Shamblin
 
Devotional Time
 
Sung Response                                       #123 Spirit of Life
 
Music for the Morning                              Loving You                                                                         Daniel Gledhill
 
Sermon                                                    Kin, Kinship, Kindness                                Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
Closing Hymn                                          #1064 Blue Boat Home
 
Benediction
 
Postlude                                                   Theme from Somewhere in Time                                           John Barry
 
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Service Notes
 
Service participants: Nancy Babbitt, Bonnie Brae, Tom Early, Sanna Egan, Melina Ewen, Kris Langabeer,
Carrie Lauer, Rick Rhoads, Kit Shaw, Jila Tayefehnowrooz
 
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 migrants.
 
September 7, 2014
 
 
Gathering Hymn                                     Surprised by joy no song can tell, no thought can compass, here we stand
                                                               to celebrate eternal love, to reach for one another’s hand.
 
                                                              When we are lonely and afraid, in need of kindness, here we stand
                                                              to celebrate eternal love, to reach for one another’s hand.
 
Call to Worship                                       #437 Let Us Worship
 
Chalice Lighting                                      Patricia Wright
 
Prelude                                                   Introduction from Porgy and Bess                              George Gershwin
 
Opening Hymn                                        Foundations (words below)
 
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                                         Brave Raven by Aaron McEmrys
                                                                    told by Catherine Farmer Loya, Director of Religious Education
 
Song of Blessing                                          As you leave this friendly place, love give light to ev’ry face.
                                                                     May the kindness which you learn, light your hearts ‘til you return.
 
Life Together
 
Offertory                                                        I Will Be Earth                                                           Gwyneth Walker
 
Devotional Time
 
Anthem                                                          Love from Four Sacred Songs                                 Dominick DiOrio
 
Message                                                        Love Reaches Out                                   Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
Closing Hymn                                                #1015 I Know I Can
 
Benediction
 
Musical Response                                          Love is…                                                                  Marjorie Herman
 
 
Service Notes
 
Foundations
by Cynthia Cottam
 
Like a chalice burning bright,
Many years of sunlight
Shining down on clay and sand
Warm our feet, our souls, our hands.
 
Nestled in this special place
Sharing thoughts and songs
We can feel this building’s grace
Our church home where all belong.
 
Families both far and near
Friends who’ve stayed and friends who’ve gone
All who’ve known a welcome here
Are with us in our song.
 
Here we feel the earth around
And see the sky above
Here we’ve known our heart’s true hope
Here we’ve shared our true heart’s love.
 
Service participants: Denise Helton, Sanna Egan, Tom Foretich, Dave Hallinan, Patrick Meighan, Greg
Wood, Linda van Ligten, Robert Kory, Phyllis Kory, Alicia van Ooyen, Karen Patterson, Peggy Rhoads,
Nancy Babbitt, Rima Snyder
 
Today’s floral dedication is in honor of Robert Runk, beloved brother of Marguerite Spears and uncle of
Diana Spears.
 
Choir: Soprano - Lauren Callendar, Rebecca Crawford, Diane Fletcher-Hoppe, Tonya Hylton, Cindy
Kelly, Kim Miller; Alto - Sue Bickford, Shelly Blaisdell, Teri Bond, Janet Goodwin, Jyvonne Haskin, Karen
Hsu Patterson, Rima Snyder; Tenor - Eric Huang, Liam Mina, Gabriel Paredes, Richard Scher; Bass - Tom
Ahern, Norb Gallery, James Hayden, Larry Howard, Brigham Johnson.
 
Our Community Offering this month will go to the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN).
Founded by a group of Salvadoran refugees whose mission was to secure legal status for the thousands of
Central Americans fleeing civil war, CARECEN received 501C(3) status in 1983. Over the past 30 years,
CARECEN has transformed itself from a small grassroots group to the largest Central American
organization in the country. A current focus of CARECEN’s work is to support unaccompanied immigrant
children with legal representation, health and counseling services, and advocacy.
August 31, 2014
 
Gathering Hymn                                            For the earth forever turning; for the skies, for every sea;
                                                                         For our lives for all we cherish, sing we our joyful song of peace.
 
Call to Worship                                             Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur and Nica Eaton-Guinn, Intern Minister
 
Prelude                                                           Merak Angelo                                                                                Traditional
 
Opening Hymn                                              #41 You That Have Spent the Silent Night
 
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                                            Grandpa Tree, by Mike Donahue
                                                                            told by Beth Brownlie-Oakes
 
Song of Blessing                                            For the mountains, hills, and pastures in their silent majesty;
                                                                           For the stars, for all the heavens, sing we our joyful song of peace.
 
A Time for Community
 
Offertory                                                            Sekar Sungsang                                                                            Traditional
 
Devotional Time
Sung Response                                              When I breathe in, I breathe in peace.
                                                                            When I breathe out, I breathe out love.
 
Responsive Reading                                     #478 A Prayer of Sorrow           U.N. Environmental Sabbath Program
 
Music for the Morning                                     Dalang Ngidih Nasi
 
Sermon                                                              Peace and Rest                                             Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
Closing Hymn                                                  #163 For the Earth Forever Turning (vs. 3-4)
 
Benediction
 
Postlude                                                            Rebon                                                                                              Traditional
 
 
Service Notes
 
Service participants: Nancy Babbitt, Leonard Cachola, Bryan Cahill, Melinda Ewen, Tom Foretich, Patrick
Meighan, Rick Rhoads, Jila Tayefehnowrooz
 
Floral Dedication: "Our wonderful last summer together was done, so you left us today, but you have not
left our hearts and memories." Dedicated to Malcolm Hansen Brownlie, July 1, 1930 - August 31, 2012.
Loving Father, Husband, Grandfather, and friend to all souls he met.
~ From Joanne, Beth, Tom, Bryan, Alex, Spencer, and Ian
 
Thank you to Hirotaka and Anna Inuzuka for their contributions of traditional Gamelan Gender Wayang
music to our service. Gamelan Gender Wayang is one of the oldest Gamelan found in Bali and largely
known to the West for accompanying Balinese shadow puppet theater. It is also played at various
Balinese-Hindu rites of passage such as first birthday, tooth filing, and cremation ceremonies. Hiro and
Anna have been performing together on stage, in workshops, and in ceremonies in the United States and
Bali since 2009.
 
Our Community Offering for the Sunday before Labor Day will go to Clergy and Laity United for
Economic Justice-Los Angeles (CLUE-LA). CLUE-LA was founded in 1996 to bring together clergy and lay
leaders of all faiths to join low-wage workers in their struggles for justice. Our church’s goal is to recruit
10 volunteers to expand our partnership with workers and CLUE by Sept 21 - contact Rick Rhoads at
fia@uusm.org.
 
The sun rose today at 6:27am and will set at 7:20pm
Waning crescent moon
High tide at 1:09am and 1:18pm
 
 
 
       Order of Service                                                   August 24, 2014
 
Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being to receive, to carry and give back.
-Dag Hammarskjold
 
*** Gathering Hymn                                       Bind us together,
                                                                           Oh bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.
                                                                           Bind us together,
                                                                          Oh, bind us together,
                                                                          Oh, bind us together with love.
 
*** Please stand in body or spirit.
Welcome                                                         Dan Nannini
 
Prelude                                                            Hungarian Dance, #5                                by Brahms, arr. Ryan Whyman
 
Chalice Lighting
 
*** Opening Hymn                                        #1 May Nothing Evil Cross This Door
 
*** 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.
                                                                                                                                                      - from the Genevan Psalter
 
Offering for the Westside Food Bank
 
Story for All Ages                                            "Silver Fox and Coyote Create Earth"                       Rev. Lissa Gundlach
 
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
                                                                                                                                                                             - Natalie Sleeth
 
A Time for Community
 
Offertory                                                             Clockwork                                                                               Ryan Whyman
 
Devotional Time
           Pastoral Prayer
           Silence
           Sung Response #95                           There is More Love Somewhere
 
Responsive Reading #591                            I Call That Church Free
 
Music for the Morning                                      Remember Me                                                                       Ryan Whyman
 
Sermon                            Love Is the Doctrine                     Rev. Lissa Gundlach
 
*** Closing Hymn #126                                  Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing
 
Please remain standing in body or spirit and hold hands for the benediction.
*** Benediction
 
Please be seated for the postlude.
Postlude                                                             Makin’ Mischief                                                                      Ryan Whyman
 
Extinguishing the Chalice
 
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Greeters:                                                         Glen Howell, Steve Young & Michael Young
Ushers:                                                            Dan Patterson & Ned Wright
Coffee:                                                              Nancy Howell & Sylvia Young
Bookstore:                                                       Nancy Babbit
Backyard Bounty:                                           Sue Stoyanoff
 
Service Notes
 
We are extremely appreciative of our guest musicians from The Whyman Project for their music this morning!
The Whyman Project is a unique collaboration of four string players and a rhythm section. Each accomplished
in their own right, these musicians are based in Los Angeles and came together to play original music and
arrangements by Ryan Whyman. Crossing genres between classical, jazz, pop, rock, and film music, Ryan brings his own unique twist to everything, redefining and expanding the piano quintet and jazz genres. The Whyman Project has performed at coffee shops, weddings, fundraisers, and recital halls around Los Angeles and Orange County, always to an enthusiastic audience. In May of 2014, The Whyman Project was chosen as one of the winners of the prestigious Beverly Hills Music in the Mansion Auditions. The ensemble features the fine musicianship of Mary Keating, Jordan Slocum, Brandon Encinas, Billy Tobenkin, Ryan Whyman, Rodrigo
Moreno, and Michael Enriquez. For more information, feel free to visit www.TheWhymanProject.com.
 
Reverend Lissa Gundlach is Assistant Minister for Congregational Life at the Unitarian Church of All Souls in
New York City. Lissa received her BA in religious studies from Vassar College and her Masters in Divinity
degree from Union Theological Seminary. In addition to the worship arts, Lissa's ministry at All Souls includes
pastoral care and counseling, spiritual development including small group ministries, and social justice,
(advocacy and education, and community service). It's a terrific pleasure to host her while she is visiting the
West Coast this summer.
 
This month, 60% of the non-pledge offering will go to Camp DeBenneville Pines. DeBenneville Pines is a UU
camp in the San Bernardino National Forest, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles. Since 1962, Unitarian
Universalists have gathered in the pines to experience the wonder of the natural world while deepening their
connections to their faith and one another. This year the all-church camp weekend will be September 12-14,
and registration is now open. Please register with our Camp Dean, Jacki Weber. As with all church programs, if
the registration fee is a barrier to your participation, please let Jacki or the minister know, as scholarships are available, jacki.weber@gmail.com.
 
Order of Service                                                  August 17, 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.
 
*** Please stand in body or spirit.
 
Welcome                                                         Mari Nunan
 
Prelude                                                            Amelia Earhart                                                                         Dave McEnery
 
Chalice Lighting                                           Angela Lisovsky
 
***Opening Hymn #305                               De Colores
 
Latecomers will be seated.
 
*** 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.
                                                                                                                                                       - from the Genevan Psalter
 
Offering for the Westside Food Bank         Ava Walderman
 
Story For All Ages                                                                                                                                         Paice Van Ooyen
 
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.
                                                                                                                                                                            - Natalie Sleeth
 
A Time for Community                                                                                                   Talia Walderman & Katy Hoffman
 
Offertory                                                           The Wind                                                                                       Marie Clare
 
Devotional Time                                                                                                                      Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
                                                                                                                                          Nica Eaton-Guinn, Intern Minister
 
Music for the Morning                                     Teddy                                                                          The New Historians
 
Reflections                                                       Esperanza                                                                              Freddy Kafka
 
                                                                           The Border                                                                              Jacob Valore
 
                                                                           The First Day of Service                                                 Madeline Gordon
 
*** Hymn #157                                                Step by Step the Longest March
 
Reflections                                                       Roof Pouring                                                                             Mari Nunan
 
                                                                            Brickmaking                                   Jake Weiner (Read by Jacob Valore)
 
                                                                            The Orphanage                                                                 Ava Walderman
 
Slideshow                                                                                                                                      Amalia Davis Del Piccolo
 
Reflections                                                      The Food                                                                           Talia Walderman
 
                                                                           Mexico                                                                                      Analisa Burns
 
Closing Hymn #311                                       Let it Be a Dance
 
Closing Words & Thanks                                                                                                                            Angela Lisovsky
 
Please remain standing in body or spirit and hold hands for the benediction.
*** Benediction & Extinguishing the Chalice                                                                                             Angela Lisovsky
 
Please be seated for the postlude
*** Postlude                                                      I’ll Fly Away                                                                        Albert E. Brumley
 
❦ ❦ ❦ ❦
 
Greeters:                                                             Roberta Frye, David Olson
Ushers:                                                               Tom Early & Peggy Kharraz
Coffee:                                                                 Pam Teplitz, Linda Marten, Jila Tayefehnowrooz
Bookstore:                                                           Nancy Babbitt
Backyard Bounty:                                                Roberta Frye
 
Service Notes
 
Our flowers are from the family & friends of Frances Spencer in honor of her long life and her memorial today.
She was very loved, and we are all happy she is at peace.
 
Thank you to Marie Clare and The New Historians for their music, this morning! Marie Clare is a
singer/songwriter that was born into a musical family in the San Gabriel Valley and has been performing on
stages all across California and even bits of the country. She is accompanied today by two of her three
blue-grass band mates of The New Historians, Erte deGarces and John Metcalfe. Both Marie Clare and The New Historians can be found on most social networks.
 
This month, our Generous Congregation offering will benefit the Camp DeBenneville Pines. DeBenneville Pines
is a UU camp in the San Bernardino National Forest, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles. Since 1962, Unitarian
Universalists have gathered in the pines to experience the wonder of the natural world while deepening their
connections to their faith and one another. This year the all-church camp weekend will be September 12-14,
and registration is now open. Please register with our Camp Dean, Jacki Weber. As with all church programs, if
the registration fee is a barrier to your participation, please let Jacki or the minister know, as scholarships are
available, jacki.weber@gmail.com.
 
Order of Service                                                              August 10, 2014
 
 
*** 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.
 
*** Please stand in body or spirit.
 
Welcome                                                  Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
Prelude                                                     "Ke aloha o ke akua" (I Corinthians 13)                                            Traditional
 
Chalice Lighting                                       Barbara Kernochan and Pat Gomez, Intern Minister Committee
 
*** Opening Hymn                                   #1 May Nothing Evil Cross This Door
 
*** 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.                       – based on Isaac Watts
 
Offering for the Westside Food Bank
 
Time for All Ages                                      Welcoming Nica Eaton-Guinn, Intern Minister
                                                                     Catherine Farmer Loya, Director of Religious Education
 
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.                                                                                 – Natalie Sleeth
 
A Time for Community
 
Pulpit Message                                        All Church Weekend at Camp De Benneville Pines, Sept 14-16
                                                                    Jacki Weber, Dean
 
Offertory                                                    "Hana Song"                                                                                   Pandanus Club
 
Devotional Time
          Pastoral Prayer
          Silence
          Sung Response                             #123 Spirit of Life
 
Reading                                                     from The Wonder of Aging by Michael Gurian
 
Music for the Morning                              "Lei Hali’a"                                                                                      Reichel, Keali’i
 
Introducing Our Speakers                       Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
Reflection                                                   Joanna Woods-Marsden
 
Sung Response                                       #331 Life is the Greatest Gift of All
           
                                                                     Life is the greatest gift of all the riches on this earth;
                                                                     Life and its creatures, great and small, of high and lowly birth:
                                                                     So treasure it and measure it with deed of shining worth
 
Reflection                                                   Joe Engleman
 
Sung Response                                       Mind is the brightest gift of all, its thoughts no barrier mars;
                                                                     It seeks creation's hidden plan, its quest surmounts all bars;
                                                                     It reins the wind, it chains the storm, it weighs the outmost stars.
 
Reflection          “From Generation to Generation”       Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
 
*** Closing Hymn                                     We are of life, its shining gift, the measure of all things,
                                                                     up from the dust our temples lift, our vision soars on wings;
                                                                     For seed and root, for flower and fruit, our grateful spirit sings.
 
Please remain standing in body or spirit and hold hands for the benediction.
 
*** Benediction
 
Please be seated for the postlude.
 
Postlude                                                    "He mele no kakahiaka"                                                                     Traditional
 
Extinguishing the Chalice
 
❦ ❦ ❦ ❦
 
Greeters:                                                     Kris Langabeer, James Duckman & Jila Tayefehnowrooz
Ushers:                                                       Barbara Kernochan & Dave Hallinan
Coffee:                                                         Robert & Phyllis Kory, Linda van Ligten, Sanna Egan
Bookstore:                                                   Nancy Babbitt
Backyard Bounty:                                       Melinda Ewen
 
Service Notes
 
We welcome students from Halau Hula ‘o Imi ‘Ike (Hula School of the Seekers of Knowledge)! The students of Halau Hula ‘o Imi ‘Ike have been studying dance under the direction of their Kumu Hula (hula master) for nearly 25 years. The hula school originally operated as the drama club that put on shows for St. Augustine Elementary School in Culver City. However, a small but very persistent group of students decided to continue their studies in Hawaiian culture, dance, and language. From this group of dedicated students the hula school has grown to over 50 members. UU Santa Monica church members Nalani Santiago-Kalmanson and Buudha Quant are active members in the halau and are please to share their aloha this Sunday. Nalani joined the halau as a student several years ago to continue studying Hawaiiana. She is especially excited to learn lei making and ‘olelo (Hawaiian language). Buudha is an ‘olapa or graduated dancer with the halau after 15 years of study. Along with dancing he is also a student of Hawaiian chant and traditional instruments. Joining them are their hula sisters Chery Mallare, Hilary Carreon, Christine Chupek and Cristina Daco. Halau Hula ‘o Imi ‘Ike is holding its semi-Annual Ho’ike (recital) Friday, September 19 in at the Torrance Cultural Arts Center. Nalani and
Buudha will be available for more information regarding their Ho’ike.
 
This month, 60% of the non-pledge offering will go to Camp DeBenneville Pines. DeBenneville Pines is a UU camp in the San Bernardino National Forest, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles. Since 1962, Unitarian Universalists have gathered in the pines to experience the wonder of the natural world while deepening their connections to their faith and one another. This year the all-church camp weekend will be September 12-14, and registration is now open. Please register with our Camp Dean, Jacki Weber. As with all church programs, if the registration fee is a barrier to your participation, please let Jacki or the minister know, as scholarships are
available, jacki.weber@gmail.com.
 
 
Order of Service                                                                                                           August 3, 2014
 
in time of roses (who amaze
                                                                           our now and here with paradise)
                                                                            forgetting if, remember yes
                                                                                                              ~ e.e. cummings
 
*** 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.
 
*** Please stand in body or spirit.
 
Welcome                                                              Judith Martin-Straw, pulpit host
 
Prelude                                                              “The strings are tuned” from Gipsy songs, Op. 55                    Dvorak
                                                                             Lynn Angebranndt, cello
 
Chalice Lighting                                                Edna Bonacich
 
Opening Hymn #12                                           O Life That Maketh All Things New
Latecomers will be seated.
 
*** 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.
                                                                                                                                 - from the Genevan Psalter
 
Offering for the Westside Food Bank
 
Poems For All Ages                                         from “Where the Sidewalk Ends” ~ Shel Silverstein
                                                                             read by Judith Martin-Straw
 
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.
                                                                                                                                  - Natalie Sleeth, adapted
 
A Time for Community
 
Offertory                                                              Blue Skies                                                                                    Irving Berlin
                                                                             arranged by Louis Durra & Rima Snyder
 
Because Even the Word Obstacle is an Obstacle                                                                                ~ Alison Luterman
The Journey                                                                                                                                                          ~ David Whyte
                                                                              read by Rima Snyder
 
Responsive Reading                                        #490 Wild Geese                                                                       Mary Oliver
 
Meditation
Sung Response                                                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.
 
A Blessing                                                                                                                                                          ~ James Wright
Sonnet 29                                                                                                                                             ~ William Shakespeare
                                                                             read by Judith Martin-Straw
 
Music for the Morning                                      Impermanent Things                                                   Elizabeth Alexander
 
God’s Grandeur                                                                                                                               ~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Another Reason I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House                                                                                        ~ Billy Collins
                                                                             Read by Edna Bonacich
 
*** Closing Hymn #295                                   Sing Out Praises for the Journey
 
Please remain standing in body or spirit and hold hands for the benediction.
 
*** Benediction & Extinguishing the Chalice
 
Please be seated for the postlude
 
*** Postlude from                                                  Sonata #8, op. 13 (“Pathetique”)                                          Beethoven
 
 
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Greeters: Beverly Alison, Sanna Egan, Tom Foretich
Ushers: Greg Wood, Linda van Ligten
Coffee: Kit Shaw, Karen Patterson, Peggy Rhoads
Bookstore: Nancy Babbitt
Backyard Bounty: Rima Snyder
Office Volunteer: Laura Eklund
 
 
Service Notes
 
This month, our Generous Congregation offering will benefit the Camp DeBenneville Pines. DeBenneville Pines
is a UU camp in the San Bernardino National Forest, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles. Since 1962, Unitarian
Universalists have gathered in the pines to experience the wonder of the natural world while deepening their
connections to their faith and one another. This year the all-church camp weekend will be September 12-14,
and registration is now open. Please register with our Camp Dean, Jacki Weber. As with all church programs, if
the registration fee is a barrier to your participation, please let Jacki or the minister know, as scholarships are
available, jacki.weber@gmail.com.
 
Many thanks to our worship leader this week, Rima Snyder, who has been a member since 2006. Many heartfelt
thanks well as to Edna Bonacich and Judith Martin-Straw for presenting their chosen poems.
 
Huge thanks and a warm welcome back to our guest musician this morning, Lynn Angebranndt. Ms.
Angebranndt received her Bachelor of Music in applied cello from The Catholic University, Washington
D.C., and a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. She has been a guest artist at the
Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival and, for two summers, appeared as a performer for the Arcosanti
Composers Workshop in Arizona with the California E.A.R. Unit. Ms. Angebranndt is currently the
principal cellist of the Westchester/Marina del Rey Orchestra and the Lancaster Symphony. She is the
Strings teacher at Los Angeles Valley College and has been on the faculty of the Gold Coast Chamber
Music Festival since the summer of 2005. Ms. Angebranndt maintains a private teaching studio, is a
board member of the Los Angeles Cello Society, and freelances throughout Southern California.
                 
                    Order of Service                                                             July 27, 2014
 
"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud" - Emile Zola
 
*** Gathering Hymn                                     Bind us together,
                                                                        Oh bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.
                                                                        Bind us together,
                                                                        Oh, bind us together,
                                                                        Oh, bind us together with love.
 
*** Please stand in body or spirit.
 
Welcome                                                         Ian Dodd
 
Prelude                                                            Morning Peace                                                              Daniel Gledhill
 
Chalice Lighting
 
*** Opening Hymn                                         #131 Love Will Guide Us
 
*** 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.
                                                                                                                                                      - from the Genevan Psalter
 
Offering for the Westside Food Bank
 
Story for All Ages                                                Earrings!                                                                             by Judith Viorst
 
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                                                                       - Natalie Sleeth
 
A Time for Community
 
Offertory                                                                  Canon in D                                                                - Johann Pachelbel
 
Devotional Time
       Pastoral Prayer                                            The Stream of Life                                                - Rabindranath Tagore
       Silence
        Sung Response                                         #108 How Can I Keep from Singing?
                                                                                  (My Life Flows On in Endless Song)
 
Responsive Reading                                          #530 Out of the Stars
 
Music for the Morning                                          Reflections II                                                                     Joe Engleman
 
Sermon       “It’s You!”        Rev. Anne Hines
 
*** Closing Hymn                                                 #118 This Little Light of Mine
 
Please remain standing in body or spirit and hold hands for the benediction.
 
*** Benediction
 
Please be seated for the postlude.
 
Postlude                                                                  “Blue Monk”                                                                  - Thelonius Monk
 
Extinguishing the Chalice
 
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Greeters:                                                                 Beverly Alison, Teri Bond, Steve Young, Michael Young
Ushers:                                                                    Tom Foretich & Patrick Meighan
Coffee:                                                                      Sylvia Young
Bookstore:                                                               Nancy Babbit
Backyard Bounty:                                                    Roberta Frye
 
Service Notes
 
The Reverend Anne Felton Hines recently retired after over 30 years of parish ministry -- all within our Pacific
Southwest District. Her most recent ministry was with Emerson UU Church in Canoga Park, where she was the
longest-serving minister they'd ever had; they honored her by designating her Minister Emerita. She was born
and raised in Pasadena, and has two adult children and two teenage grandchildren. Besides ministry and her
family, she loves playing classical piano.
 
We are very happy to welcome Joe Engleman’s musical contributions to this morning’s service!
 
Floral Dedication for Joanne Brownlie: "Dear Mommy, Happy Birthday! From your Loving Daughter, Beth and
Son, Tom, and Son-in-Law, Bryan - and your devoted grandkids, Alex, Spencer and Ian. Thank you for making
our lives so rich and wonderful! Let's Partay!"
 
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 have served a meal to residents at Step Up on Second on the 4th Saturday of the month. To join the Hunger Task Force and volunteer, please contact Rhonda Peacock: uurhonda@gmail.com.
a meal to residents at Step Up on Second on the 4th Saturday of the mo
 
Order of Service                                                                                                                                        July 20, 2014
 
“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen” ~ Brené Brown
 
*** Gathering Hymn                                       Come, come, whoever you are.
                                                                           Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
                                                                           Ours is no caravan of despair.
                                                                           Come, yet again come.
 
*** Please stand in body or spirit.
 
Welcome                                                          Amelia Monteiro
 
Prelude                                                             “Chin Up”                                                                               Daniel Gledhill
 
Chalice Lighting                                               Rev. Christina Shu
 
Opening Hymn                                                  #368 “Now Let us Sing”
 
Latecomers will be seated.
 
*** 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.
                                                                                                                                                       - from the Genevan Psalter
 
Offering for the Westside Food Bank
 
Story For All Ages                                           Exodus 3:1-2, 9-14 & 4:1-5, 10-17                             Rev. Christina Shu
 
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.
                                                                                                                                                           - Natalie Sleeth, adapted
 
A Time for Community
 
Offertory                                                          “Today”                                                                                 - Leslie Beauvais
 
Devotional Time
        Prayer                                                                                                                                                  Rev. Christina Shu
        Silence
        Sung Response                                     #1007 “There’s a River Flowin’ in My Soul”
 
Responsive Reading                                    “The Church of 80% Sincerity” (excerpt)                         - by David Roche
 
Music for the Morning                                     “If She Only Knew”                                                             - Leslie Beauvais
 
Sermon “Daring to be Vulnerable” Rev. Christina Shu
 
*** Closing Hymn                                            #1008 “When our Heart in is a Holy Place”
 
Please remain standing in body or spirit and hold hands for the benediction.
 
*** Benediction
 
*** Postlude                                                    “We’ll Meet Again”                                                                   Daniel Gledhill
 
Extinguishing the Chalice
 
 
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Greeters:                                                        Dwight Flowers, Barbara Gibbs, David Olson
Ushers:                                                          Bonnie Brae & Carrie Lauer
Coffee:                                                            Nancy Howell & Pam Teplitz
Bookstore:                                                     Nancy Babbitt
Backyard Bounty:                                          Roberta Frye
 
 
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 have served a meal to residents at Step Up on Second on the 4th Saturday of the month. To join
the Hunger Task Force and volunteer, please contact Rhonda Peacock: uurhonda@gmail.com.
 
Reverend Christina Shu serves as the lead interfaith chaplain at Cedars Sinai. Rev. Shu earned a Bachelor’s
in Religious Studies at Stanford University. She then earned her Master’s in Divinity at Harvard Divinity
School. Rev. Shu’s focus is to provide interfaith spiritual care to patients and families from diverse
religious communities (Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, etc.), and those who are not religious, are unaffiliated,
or are personally spiritual. Her specialties are palliative care patients and families experiencing grief and
loss, end-of-life situations, and coping with long-term illness and hospitalization. She was a chaplain
resident at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center and has earned a total of six units of
clinical pastoral education. She also served as an intern minister for two years at Neighborhood Unitarian
Universalist Church in Pasadena and is now an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister.
 
Thank you to Leslie Beauvais for the gift of her music, this morning! Leslie has performed extensively in
musical theatre over some 28 years, including the Broadway company of “Les Miserables.” She started
writing her own songs in 1995 when in between Musical Theatre performances and has since recorded
two Albums of mostly original songs under the artist name Leslie Clemmons. She is excited to be
releasing her third Album of all original songs under her first and favorite name Leslie Beauvais, with
songs that she wrote all on her own, with the exception of two songs that were co-written by Leslie and
her friend and teacher Severin Browne. CHEMISTRY will be released sometime later this summer.
You can find out more about Leslie on her website, www.lesliebeauvais.com
Order of Service -  July 13, 2014
 
“In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs.
There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.”
- Margaret J. Wheatley
 
*** Gathering Hymn                                              Bind us together,
                                                                                  Oh bind us together with cords that cannot be broken.
                                                                                  Bind us together,
                                                                                 Oh, bind us together,
                                                                                 Oh, bind us together with love.
 
*** Please stand in body or spirit.
 
Welcome                                                                 Rob Briner, Worship Associate
 
Prelude                                                                    “Blood on the Wind”                                                    Jared Anderson
 
Chalice Lighting
 
*** Opening Hymn                                                 #1052 The Oneness of Everything
 
*** 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.
                                                                                                                                                         - from the Genevan Psalter
 
Offering for the Westside Food Bank
 
Story for All Ages                                                                                                                                                 Jacki Weber
 
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                                                                   - Natalie Sleeth
 
A Time for Community
 
Offertory                                                                   “Taksim Square”                                                           Jared Anderson
 
Devotional Time
              Pastoral Prayer                                        #601 When All the People                                                          Mo-Tse
              Silence
              Sung Response                                      #1064 Blue Boat Home
 
Responsive Reading                                            (Full text at bottom)                                                   Rev. Nuri-Robins
 
Music for the Morning                                            “Fireworks”                                                                   Jared Anderson
 
Sermon - “Uncivil Behavior” - The Rev. Dr. Kikanza Nuri-Robins
 
*** Closing Hymn                                                     #1014 Standing on the Side of Love
 
Please remain standing in body or spirit and hold hands for the benediction.
 
*** Benediction                                                                                                                                              Rev. Nuri-Robins
 
Read more about Uncivil Behavior:
“The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense” by Suzette Elgin.
“48 Laws of Power” by Robert Greene
“Turning to One Another” by Margaret Wheatley
 
Please be seated for the postlude.
 
Postlude                                                                      “Moonshine”                                                               Jared Anderson
 
Extinguishing the Chalice
 
❦ ❦ ❦ ❦
 
Greeters:                                                                     Kris Langabeer & Jila Tayefehnowrooz
Ushers:                                                                       Steve DePaul & Kit Shaw
Coffee:                                                                         Linda van Ligten, Sanna Egan, Robert & Phyllis Kory
Bookstore:                                                                  Nancy Babbit
Backyard Bounty:                                                       Sue Stoyanoff
 
Service Notes
 
Kikanza Nuri Robins has been attending our church for about a year. She is an ordained Presbyterian minister,
a community minister who works as an organizational development consultant. She serves people and
organizations that are in transition – or ought to be – helping them with issues of leadership, change, diversity
and spirituality. She came here, to our Santa Monica congregation, to fill her own trans-traditional spiritual
well, and liked it so much she has stayed. Kikanza will become a full-fledged member as soon as she gets her
paperwork completed, but she has already made a financial commitment to our community.
www.KikanzaNuriRobins.com.
 
We are very grateful for the music of Jared Anderson, this morning! Jared makes music and photography under
the project moniker Aristotle Throttle. He grew up hopeful despite the drugs, murder, Christian suburbs, and
other dark secrets haunting his family. For 10 years and two weeks he channeled that hope into taking care of
severely abused and neglected children at a group home. During that decade, he fronted a band called System
Kid and performed at dozens of churches and weddings. The conservative closet got cramped so he came out
and moved to Spain for new adventures. He currently resides in L.A. and is recording an EP. He also does play
therapy with autistic kids and drives for Lyft.
 
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 have served a meal to residents at Step Up on Second on the 4th Saturday of the month. To join the Hunger Task Force and volunteer, please contact Rhonda Peacock: uurhonda@gmail.com.
 
 
 
Responsive Reading (see above): "We Give Thanks"
 
 
For the good in the world;
for things great and small,
beautiful and awesome;
for seen and unseen splendors;
We give thanks
 
For human life;
for talking and moving and thinking together;
for common hopes and hardships shared
from birth until our dying;
We give thanks
 
For work to do and strength to work;
for the comradeship of labor;
for exchanges of good humor
and encouragement;
We give thanks
 
For marriage;
for the mystery and joy of flesh made one;
for mutual forgiveness and burdens shared;
for secrets kept in love;
We give thanks
 
For family;
for living together and eating together;
for family amusements and family pleasures;
We give thanks
 
For children;
for their energy and curiosity;
for their brave play and startling frankness;
for their sudden sympathies;
We give thanks
 
For the young;
for their high hopes;
for their irreverence toward worn-out values;
for their search for freedom;
for their solemn vows;
We give thanks
 
For growing up and growing old;
for wisdom deepened by experience;
for rest in leisure;
and for time made precious by its passing;
We give thanks
 
For your comfort in times of doubt and sorrow;
for healing our diseases;
for courage in the face of temptation
and danger;
We give thanks
 
We give thanks for a world that is good
We give thanks for the hope that comes
from love that is everlasting