"Joy, Give Into It" - Service Leader: Talia Welsh

April 13, 2025 - Order of Service

Chimes

Welcome, Announcements, Land Acknowledgement

Prelude

Opening Words

Chalice Lighting "Come Into This Place" By Margaret Weis

Hymn 1000 "Morning Has Come"

Sharing our Abundance: Charity of the Month: Child Haven International

Offertory Response "From You I Receive"

Service Leader Reflection - Talia Welsh

Reading "From Beauty" by John O’Donohue

Hymn 163 "For the Earth Forever Turning"

Meditation

Meditation Music "Spirit of Life"

Candles of Joy and Concern

Video "This Joy" by the Resistance Revival Choir (video not recorded) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TbDPwA09Bc

Message "Joy, Give Into It"

Hymn 1030 "Siyahamba"

Extinguishing the Flame "Joy: A Benediction" by David Breeden

Benediction

"Carry the Flame"

Postlude

Reverend Rosemary and Chorealis approach joy from multiple perspectives - because you just never know where you will find it!

Recognizing International Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate this community and the trust many have placed in UCE.

ORDER OF SERVICE

Chimes

Welcome and Announcements

Land Acknowledgement

Prelude

Chalice Lighting - Trust the People – Lessons from the Emergent Strategy Immersion New Orleans by Adrienne Maree Brown

Hymn 361 - Enter, Rejoice, and Come In

Canvass Presentation - Lynne Turvey

Sharing Our Abundance – WINGS – Women in Need Growing Stronger

Sung Response - Just One Step

Service Leader Reflection – Declan Kiely

Hymn of the Month - Clear Blue Morning by Gordon Ritchie

Meditation

Meditation Music - Hymn 1053 - How Could Anyone

Candles of Joy and Concern

Video - Words to Describe Me by Lisa Salazar (not recorded)

Message - T is For Trust, and Trans - Rev. Rosemary Morrison

Hymn 1021 - Lean On Me

Extinguishing the Flame - The Edge of Doubt by Albert Huffstickler

Benediction

Carry the Flame

Postlude

The Right Relations Team explores the importance of promoting healthy relationships and addressng conflict in constructive ways.

ORDER OF SERVICE

Welcome and Announcements

Land Acknowledgement

Chalice Lighting - Beloved is Where We Begin by Jan Richardson

Prelude - A Beautiful Distraction by Michele McLaughlin

Hymn 346 - Come Sing a Song with Me

Canvass Presentation – Lynne Turvey

Sharing Our Abundance - WINGS - Women In Need Growing Stronger

Sung Response – Just One Step

Hymn 1008 - When Our Heart is in a Holy Place

Reflections – Carol Hutchings and Lynn Wolff

Small Group Work (not recorded)

Hymn of the Month - Clear Blue Morning by Gordon Ritchie

Reading – What Took You So Long by John Roedel

Candles of Joy and Concern

Musical Presentation – Rise Up by Andy Armer and Randy Badazz Alpert - performed by Andrea Graham and Gordon Ritchie

Extinguishing the Flame

Benediction

Video - Try a Little Kindness by Jann Arden (not recorded)

Carry the Flame

Postlude

Where Can We Put Our Trust?

March 16, 2025

This family friendly service will be asking us to think about our Soul Matters theme of 'trust' in a different way. What does it mean to trust ourselves, our UCE organization, and even our friends and families? Come prepared to participate, learn, and question. And to have a little fun thrown in!

Order of Service

Chimes

Welcome and Announcements

Land Acknowledgement

Prelude

Chalice Lighting

Love Can Transform the World by Maureen Killoran

Love is the aspiration, the spirit that moves and inspires this faith we share.

Rightly understood, love can nurture our spirits and transform the world.

May the flame of this chalice honor and embody the power and the blessing of the love we need, the love we give, the love we are challenged always to remember and to share.

Hymn 188 Come, Come, Whoever You Are (sung in a round) by Rumi &. L. Ungar

Time For All Ages A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. William - not recorded

Canvass Presentation

Sharing Our Abundance

Hymn 402 From You I Receive (Sing 2X)

Service Leader Reflection

Hymn of the Month Clear Blue Morning By Gordon Ritchie

Candles of Joy and Concern

Minister Reflection Where Can We Put Our Trust

Activity - not recorded

Hymn 131 Love Will Guide Us by S. Rogers & S. Wylder

Extinguishing the Flame

Abundant Grace By Melissa Jete

From this ground, let us sow mercy, justice, and compassion

Let us offer our stories to provide our staples of wisdom

And when we do,

Let us create and experience the Presence and Affirmation

that allows us to connect with our theological imaginations

So that the harvest of our faith will be Abundant Grace.

Benediction

Carry the Flame

Postlude

Extraordinary Women Doing Ordinary Things

March 9, 2025

Revs Audrey Brooks and Rosemary Morrison

This service will feature several of our 'Extraordinary" UCE women. Revs Audrey and Rosemary are co-leading this service with Ruth Patrick as our special guest speaker. Gordon Ritchie and Maria Ouderkirk and Gordon Rtichie are guest musicians. Raging Grannies will introduce a hymn. We are celebrating Internal Woman's Day in this service

Order of Service

Extraordinary Women Doing Ordinary Things

March 9, 2025

Chimes - Rosemary

Welcome and Announcements - Rosemary

Land Acknowledgement - Audrey

Prelude Gordon

Chalice Lighting 435 by Kathleen McTigue Rosemary

We come together this morning to remind one another

To rest for a moment on the forming edge of our lives,

To resist the headlong tumble into the next moment,

Until we claim for ourselves

Awareness and gratitude,

Taking the time to look into one another’s faces

And see there communion:

The reflection of our own eyes.

This house of laughter and silence,

Memory and hope,

Is hallowed by our presence together

Hymn 121 We’ll Build a Land by B. Zanotti and C. McDade

Canvass Presentation Brandie Moller-Reid

Sharing Our Abundance Wings of Providence

Just One Step

Offertory Ave Maria By Bach and Gounod

Gordon Ritchie and Maria Ouderkirk

Video Fourth International Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Women -not recorded

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#search/audbrook%40telusplanet.net/FMfcgzQZTVlkpzqNksPfJljCtQmGGdGb?projector=1

Reflection Rev. Audrey Brooks

Hymn of the Month Clear Blue Morning by Gordon Ritchie

Reflection Ruth Patrick

Musical Presentation Song from Frozen Two

Gordon Ritchie and Maria Ouderkirk

Meditation Audrey

Candles of Joy and Concern Rosemary

Hymn 109 As We Come Marching, Marching

Introduced by the Raging Grannies

Extinguishing the Flame

Into the World Singing by Dawn Skjei Cooley

Let us go out into the world singing.

Let us go out into the world singing songs that proclaim liberty.

Songs that turn ashes into garlands

Songs that bind up the afflicted and those who mourn.

Songs that, like oaks, have roots that go deep and stand strong.

Let us go into the world singing.

We know these songs. They vibrate through time, in our very souls.

They are the songs that give us life.

They are the songs that give us meaning.

They are the songs that give us purpose.

Now it is our turn, to take these life-giving songs out into the world.

Let us go now – singing these songs with voices deep and strong.

And may the world join us in praise and in celebration and in love.

Amen.

Benediction Audrey and Rosemary

Audrey Go out into our unpredictable world

With faith to tackle dark challenges

Holding each other close with love,

Building trust one brick at a time

For in these extraordinary times

Hope, Strength and community

Are our shelter against the storm.

Rosemary

Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world…….

Carry the Flame

Postlude

Will Everything Be OK?

What's going to happen? Will everything be ok? What can I do? In these days, we find ourselves too often stuck with these questions on repeat. We clutch at ways to contain, compartmentalize and control. What if, instead, we trusted?

Is there an essence to inclusion for communities? Dr. Lori Campbell, professor of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Grant MacEwan University, speaks on foundational concepts around inclusion.

ORDER OF SERVICE

Chimes

Welcome and Announcements

Land Acknowledgement

Prelude

Chalice Lighting – Be Longing by Chad Snyder

Hymn 6 – Just As Long As I Have Breath

Sharing Our Abundance – CUC Sharing Our Faith

Hymn 402 - From You I Receive (Sing 2X)

Story - Strictly No Elephants written by Lisa Mantchev and Illustrated by Taeeun Yo (not recorded)

Hymn of the Month – Belonging by Christopher New

Service Leader Reflection – Rev. Rosemary Morrison

Hymn 170 - We Are a Gentle Angry People

Message - What Do You Mean By Inclusion? – Dr. Lori Campbell

Meditation

Meditation Music - Hymn 123 - Spirit of Life

Candles of Joy and Concern

Hymn 1018 - Come and Go With Me

Extinguishing the Flame

Benediction

Carry the Flame

Postlude

Looking at inclusion from many different angles, along with participating in an activity, will help us all understand how inclusion invites us to be gracious and generous.

ORDER OF SERVICE

Chimes

Welcome and Announcements

Land Acknowledgement

Prelude

Chalice Lighting - Love Can Transform the World by Maureen Killoran

Hymn 38 - Morning Has Broken

Time for All Ages - The Day You Begin by Jacquiline Woodson

Sharing Our Abundance - iHuman Youth Society

Hymn 402 - From You I Receive (Sing 2X)

Service Leader Reflection - Jeff Bisanz

Hymn of the Month - Belonging by Christopher New

Chocolate Meditation

Video - Love is Still the Answer by Jason Mraz (not recorded)

Activity #1 - Rev. Morrison

Spoken Candles of Joy and Concern

Activity #2 - Rev. Morrison

Hymn 1008 - When Our Heart is in a Holy Place

Extinguishing the Flame - Universal Rhythm by Israel Buffardi

Benediction/Grace

Carry the Flame

Postlude

Just As You Are:

You Are Accepted

Unitarian Universalist singer/songwriter Lea Morris's song, 'Just as You Are' is the inspiration for this service. Bringing inclusion to life is necessary for people to feel accepted, wanted, celebrated, and loved.