Gathering Music  Across the Great Divide by Kate Wolf (Trailmix)

Welcome and Announcements Board Member

Prelude  "I Remember Everything" by John Prine and Pat McLaughlin (Trailmix)

Chalice Lighting 

Life is a gift, for which we are grateful.

We gather in community to celebrate

The glories and the mysteries of this great gift.

Gathering Hymn #15, “The Lone Wild Bird”

Opening Words and Story - Rev. Chris

Sharing - Jane Minassian

Anthem  - "Skating Across Time" by Bayard Klimasmith (Trailmix)

Sharing - Matt Mayerchak

Words of Offering Rev. Chris 

Offertory - In My Life by the  Beatles (Trailmix)

Doxology – 

From all that dwell below the skies;

Let words of love and peace arise;

Let joyful songs of praise be sung;

Through every land by every tongue.

Amen.

Creating the Altar  - #1002, “Comfort Me” 

Prayer - Rev. Chris 

Hymn - #96, I Cannot Think of Them as Dead

Homily “They Will Be With Us” Rev. Chris

Closing Hymn  "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" by the Carter Family

VERSE 1

I was standing by my window

On a cold and cloudy day

When I saw the hearse come rolling

For to carry my mother away.

CHORUS

Will the circle be unbroken

By and by Lord, by and by

There's a better home awaiting

In the sky Lord, in the sky.

VERSE 2

Lord, I told that undertaker

undertaker  please drive slow

For that body you are haulin'

Lord, I hate to see her go.

VERSE 3

Lord I followed close behind her

Tried to hold up and be brave

But I could not hide my sorrow

When they laid her in the grave

VERSE 4

Well, I went back home, my home was lonely

For my mother she was gone

All my brothers, sisters cryin'

What a home, so sad and alone

Extinguishing the Flame Rev. Chris 

Postlude "If We Were Vampires" by Jason Isbell (Trailmix)

Flower Dedication