Gathering Music "Gather Us In" vs. 1 & 3 TFWS #2236 Here in this place new light is streaming, now is the darkness vanished away, see in this space our fears and our dreamings, brought here to you in the light of this day. Gather us in the lost and forsaken, gather us in the blind …
15 November 2018
Gathering Music "We Have Come Too Far" by June Jordan We have come too farWe can’t turn ‘roundWe’ll flood the streets with justiceWe are freedom bound. Call to Prayer Scripture 1 Samuel 2:1-10 2:1 Hannah prayed and said, "My heart exults in the LORD; my strength is exalted in my God. My mouth derides my …
14 November 2018
Gathering Music "Every Praise" "God Has Work for Us to Do" Call to Prayer Hayoung Kang Come bearing your joy and let us magnify it together. Come bearing your fear and let us find comfort in one another. Come bearing your hunger and let us share the bread of life. Let us seek truth, with …
13 November 2018
A PRAYER OF LAMENT: PSALM 44: 23-26 (CEB) Leader: Wake Up! Why are you sleeping, Lord? People: Get Up! Don't reject us forever! L: Why are you hiding your face, forgetting our suffering and oppression? P: Look: we're going down to the dust; our stomachs are flat on the ground! All: Stand up! Help us! …
8 November 2018
Gathering Music Nancy Minon, guest soprano "Spiritus Sanctus Vivificans Vita" by Hildegard von Bingen Call to Worship Christopher Dwyer Many: We bid you welcome, who come with wary spirit seeking rest. One: Who come with troubles that are too much with you, who come hurt and afraid. Many: We bid you welcome, who come with …
7 November 2018
Gathering Music Kanisa Litagenjua Kanisa litagenua, na kina nani 2x Iyo! Kanisa litagenua, na mimi na wewe 2x Iyo! Kanisa litagenua, na mama na papa 2x Iyo! Kanisa litagenua, na watoto 2x Iyo! Call to Prayer Mark Miller Come, Come, whoever you are! Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. Come. This is not a caravan of …
1 November 2018
Gathering Music Call to Worship One: + In the name of God: Creator, Christ, and Holy Spirit. Many: Amen One: Grace to you and peace from God, our Creator, the love at our beginning and without end, in our midst and with us Many: God is with us, here we find new life One: Let …
31 October 2018
Happy Halloween! Gathering Music "Every Praise" "Only Love Can Do That" Call to Prayer Dr. Kate Ott One: Today we join to commemorate all the faithfully departed in our lives. Today especially, we remember those lives stolen this week in Pittsburgh and Kentucky. Today we gather to pray and to remember, to offer blessings and …
30 October 2018
Vigil for the Tree of Life Synagogue and All Acts of Hatred and Violence Gathering Music "Only Love"Darkness cannot drive out darkness Hatred cannot drive out hate (x2) Only love, only love, only love can do that, only love! Time of Silence WelcomeMark Miller Mourners' KaddishRabbi Deb Smith Psalm 121:2 Time of Silence Congregational Reading …
25 October 2018
Prelude Chorale Prelude on “Rhosymedre” Ralph Vaughn Williams Processional "Be Thou My Vision" UMH #451 Call to Worship One: Beloved, the living God, the Holy One, the God who never forgets has called us to remember. Beloved, the living God, the Holy One, the God who always remembers has called us to rejoice. And what …
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