Worship on Sunday, August 30, 10am: “Making a Difference – Labors of Love and Justice.” In person in the Sanctuary and via livestream on this page.
Description: UUnite for Justice, UUCF’s primary social justice planning team, has created this service to demonstrate how the congregation is living our values of love and justice out in the community and beyond.
Worship Participants: Social Justice Coordinator Andrew Batcher, Betsy Bicknell, Kaye Cook, Sarah Creel, Nikki DeMello, Gail Gile, Sharon Johnson, Lydia Lewis, Laura MacCleery, Laura Mack, Rev. Kären Rasmussen, Loretta Rowe, Stacey Snow, Lay Minister for Social Justice Kathy Splitt, and Marcia Tugendhat
Music: Dave Anderson, piano
Religious Exploration (RE): No RE. All-Congregation worship. The Sanctuary Nursery is infants and toddlers.
Audiovisual Support: led by A/V Specialist 1 Ben Mellott, the team is made up of the following staff/volunteers: Dave Anderson, Bill Braband, Donny Emerick, Raina G., Tom Hettenhouser, Mary Lareau, and Will Wacker.
Rebroadcasts: The service is rebroadcast on the livestreaming page on Sunday at 1 and 7pm and Monday and Tuesday at 7pm.
Worship Participants: Social Justice Coordinator Andrew Batcher, Betsy Bicknell, Kaye Cook, Sarah Creel, Nikki DeMello, Gail Gile, Sharon Johnson, Lydia Lewis, Laura MacCleery, Laura Mack, Rev. Kären Rasmussen, Loretta Rowe, Stacey Snow, Lay Minister for Social Justice Kathy Splitt, and Marcia Tugendhat
Music: Dave Anderson, piano
Religious Exploration (RE): No RE. All-Congregation worship. The Sanctuary Nursery is infants and toddlers.
Audiovisual Support: led by A/V Specialist 1 Ben Mellott, the team is made up of the following staff/volunteers: Dave Anderson, Bill Braband, Donny Emerick, Raina G., Tom Hettenhouser, Mary Lareau, and Will Wacker.
Rebroadcasts: The service is rebroadcast on the livestreaming page on Sunday at 1 and 7pm and Monday and Tuesday at 7pm.
Order of Worship
- Announcements Video with music
- Prelude: Bourrée Improvisations (apologies to) J. S. Bach. Performed by Dave Anderson, piano
- Greeting: Social Justice Coordinator Andrew Batcher
- Introduction to the Welcome Song: Andrew Batcher
- Welcome Song: You Are Welcome/Here Together by Laura Weiss/David Glasgow
- Land Acknowledgement: Kaye Cook
- Chalice Lighting: Lydia Lewis
- Hymn #1051: We Are by Ysaÿe M. Barnwell
- Time for All Ages: Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey by Margaret Ruurs, with artwork by Nazir Ali Badr. Read by Gail Gile
- Prayer: Excerpts from Boat Story by Glennon Doyle, based on an essay by Michelle Alexander. Read by Stacey Snow
- Music offering: Somos El Barco (We Are the Boat) by Charles Lorre Wyatt. Sung by Kathy Splitt and Marcia Tugendhat
- Ritual of Candle Lighting: Sarah Creel
- Music: Dave Anderson, piano
- Offering Introduction: Betsy Bicknell
- Offertory: La Valse d’Amelie by Yann Tiersen. Performed by Dave Anderson, piano
- Offering Dedication: Betsy Bicknell
- Homilies: Nikki DeMello, Laura MacCleery, and Rev. Kären Rasmussen
- Music Meditation: Comptine d’un autre été: l’après midi by Yann Tiersen. Performed by Dave Anderson, piano
- Extinguishing the Chalice: Laura Mack
- Announcements: Sharon Johnson
- Benediction: Loretta Rowe
- Closing Hymn #1017: Building a New Way by Martha Sandefer
- Postlude: Video featuring images of UUCF social justice, with music: People Have the Power by Patti Smith and Fred Smith. Performed by Choir Choir Choir, Patti Smith, and Stewart Copeland
Share the Plate
UUCF shares half of its weekly offering with a nonprofit doing work consistent with UUCF’s mission. The Share the Plate recipient for September is The Amica Center for Immigrant Rights. Since 1999, The Amica Center has provided unwavering legal defense and strategic litigation for immigrant children and adults facing detention and deportation. Endlessly striving toward real systemic change, a more welcoming world, and ensuring equal justice for all immigrant adults and children at risk of detention and deportation, The Amica Center remains dedicated to standing alongside people trapped in the fundamentally unjust system that currently exists. From assisting people seeking asylum to reuniting families, The Amica Center works to ensure that everyone navigating the immigration system feels safe and supported. DONATE HERE.