THE LIGHT OF COMMUNITY
Rachel Melcher
Daniel Melcher, Service Assistant
Welcome, Announcements & Introduction of Visitors
Opening Reading: River Call, by Rev. Manish K. Mishra-Marzetti
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.
Responsive Reading: We Travel this Road Together, by Tess Baumberger
From the busy-ness of everyday we gather once a week to remember who we are, to dream of who we might become.
We travel this road together.
As companions on this journey, we share the milestones we meet along the way.
Individual moments of joy and sorrow become shared moments of comfort and celebration.
We travel this road together.
We share this journey across differences of belief and opinion
Because we value diversity and because we care for one another.
We travel this road together.
Today as we take the next steps, let us notice our fellow travelers:
The burdens that they carry, the songs that inspire their hearts.
We travel this road together.
As we gather in beloved community, let us open the holy havens of our hearts,
Let us share the sacred places of our souls
For we are pilgrims who share a common path.
We travel this road together.
Hymn: #121 We’ll Build a Land
Children’s Faith Development Program: Ten Million Stars, by Nancy Wood
Go now in peace, go now in peace; may the spirit of love surround you everywhere, everywhere you may go.
Meditative Moment and Candle Lighting
Social Justice Minute
Offertory: The Light That Has Lighted the World (G. Harrison)
Sermon: The Light of Community, Rachel Melcher
Hymn: #346 Come, Sing a Song with Me
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: We Pledge to Walk Together, by Alice Blair Wesley
Postlude: I Saw the Light (H. Williams)
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