Order of Service, December 8, 2019

MY FIRST CHALICA, A REFLECTION

Guest Speaker: Joe Donatone

Service Leader: Linda Hartley

Our task is to be who we are, in every way we can be; our salvation proceeding in putting ourselves back together after each tumble. We irridesce, shine, and radiate. We exclaim and roar: we are. -- Kenneth L. Patton

Introduction

Hymn: #349 We Gather Together

Prelude: One World (S. Healy)

Welcome and Announcements

Lighting the Chalice Flame:  
Come, come, whoever you are,
Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is no caravan of despair.
Come, yet again come.

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. 

Time for All Ages: Excerpt from Flame of Learning, Chalice of Love by Janeen K. Grohsmeyer

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.

Hymn: #123 Spirit of Life

Quiet Time/Candle Lighting/Meditation:
The Moment of Magic by Victoria E. Safford

Offertory: From a Distance (J. Gold)

Responsive Reading: #441 To Worship

Sermon: My First Chalica, A Reflection, Joe Donatone

Hymn: #318 We Would Be One

Closing Words: You Are the Holiday Miracle by Gwen Matthews

Chalice Extinguishing: It Becomes More by Amy Zucker Morgenstern

Postlude: Top of the World (R. Carpenter & J. Bettis)