Gathering Music 

Welcome and Announcements – Board Member

Prelude Prelude in A-flat Major BWV 886, by J.S. Bach. 

Chalice Lighting Rev. Chris Jablonski

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 #100, “I’ve Got Peace Like a River”

Story Rev. Chris Jablonski 

Anthem “Workin’ for the Dawn of Peace,: by Ron Jeffers, Senior Choir

Words of Offering 

This month, we share the plate with

Transylvania Partner Church

Offertory “Canción Con Todos,” by Mercedes Sosa; Camila Parias, soprano

I go for a walk through the southern cosmic belt

Grounded in the greenest region of wind and light

I feel when walking all the skin of America on my skin

And a river runs in my blood that releases its flow in my voice

Sun of high Peru, Bolivia's face, tin and loneliness

A green Brazil, Chile's kiss of copper and mineral

I climb from the south to the center of America and total

Deep root of a scream destined to grow and explode.

All the voices all, All hands all,

All the blood can be a song in the wind

Sing with me, sing American brother,

Release your hope like a cry in your voice...

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.

Candles of Celebration and Concern

Prayer  Rev. Chris Jablonski

Hymn  #155, “Circle Round for Freedom’

Sermon  Rev. Martha Durkee-Neuman

Closing Song “We Shall Not Be Moved”

Extinguishing the Flame 

Postlude Fugue, BWV 886, by J.S. Bach