03-16-2025 Order of Service

Centering for Courage

Sunday, March 16, 2025, 10:25 am

Online on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620
Passcode: BUF

Zoom by phone, for audio only: (346) 248-7799
Meeting ID: 738 363 620
Passcode: 306220


Gathering Music                             Andrea Rackl, piano improv

Welcomes                                       Rev Paul Beckel, Tom Nicholas and Su Livingston
Prelude                                            Prelude in Cm, Op. 28, No. 20, by Chopin
Chalice Lighting
Covenant
Singing Together                            #291, Die Gedanken Sind Frei

Children’s Focus                             Little Wolf’s First Howling,

by Laura McGee Kvasnosky &
Kate Harvey McGee, read by Vanessa Lott

Children’s Blessing                         We hold you in our love as you go…

Reflections                                      Tom and Su

Interlude                                          Long way to Go, by Armor and Sturtevant

sung by Jaco ten Hove and Barbara Wells ten Hove

Reflections                                      Our Courageous Unitarian, Universalist, and UU Heritage
What BUF Means to Me                 Walt Ellis
Sharing our Gifts                             Improvisation on Voice Still and Small, by John Corrado

Singing Together                            #391, Voice Still and Small

Benediction 
Circle Round                                   We’ve got the Power!
~ ~ ~
Coffee hour questions:
– What helps you to center for courage?
– What challenges you to act from your center?
– How did today’s service relate to whatever is on your mind or heart?

Afterward

If you’re with us on Zoom today, please stay after the service for our online coffee hour. If you’re here in person, please join us downstairs for coffee and conversation. Visitors: you may wish to use a red cup — then we’ll know you’re open to a bit of orientation.

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