STOP MAKING CHILDREN
FIGHT OUR BATTLES
Guest Speaker: Meagan Bandy Bell
Service Leader: Larry Stauber
Hymn: #188 Come, Come, Whoever You Are
Prelude: Lionheart Epic (B. Bennett)
Welcome and Announcements
Lighting the Chalice Flame:
We light our chalice with the hope
that love and wisdom
might inspire us to act
so that we may look into the eyes
of our children
and their children and truthfully say
we did our part
to care for them and their future.
May love transform us and our world
with new steps toward life.
Opening Words: Excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s address to U.N.
Hymn: #347 Gather the Spirit
Children & Youth Check-In & Send-Off:
Go now in peace, go now in peace; may the spirit of love surround you everywhere, everywhere you may go.
Quiet Time/Meditation/Prayer
Offertory: In My Daughter’s Eye (J. Slater)
Responsive Reading: #570 Prayer for the Earth
Affirmation: Love is the spirit of this Congregation and service is its law. This is our great covenant to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another.
Hymn: #21 For the Beauty of the Earth
Sermon: Stop Making Children Fight Our Battles, Meagan Bandy Bell
Hymn: #123 Spirit of Life
Extinguishing the Chalice Flame:
We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment. These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.
Closing Words
Postlude: Blessed (E. John)
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