03-23-2025 Order of Service

Resilience and Reciprocity: Lessons from the Natural World

Sunday, March 23, 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               Lyric Pieces by Edvard Grieg
Welcome                           Steffany Raynes
Prelude                              To a Wild Rose by Edward MacDowell
Melanie Rieck, piano
Chalice Lighting               Carrie Koehnline
Covenant
Singing Together              From you I receive, to you I give…
Reflections                        Steffany
Chalice Choir                    Sure on this Shining Night
Choir Director Ben Workman Smith
Reflections                        Lark Clayton
Women’s Retreat Invitation           
Singing together           
Repeat. Repeat.
It comes around and around again
like a chorus, waiting for us.
Let’s sing it once again.
Repeat. Repeat.
Let’s come back every time we can.
It’s so sweet, this invitation to
repeat it all again.
Welcoming                       Judy Kasper, Rev Paul Beckel
     New Members            Marsha Volkommer, Rob Volkommer,
Jim Shaver, Jennifer Shaver, Ahwren Ayers
Congregational response: We will, joyfully. We will strive to be our best selves with you, while listening closely to know who you are. We will offer you here a place of rest and solace … and endless opportunities to learn and to serve. We will accept responsibility for our own actions,
strive to practice forgiveness, and expect you to do the same.
Sharing our Gifts              Spring Song by Felix Mendelssohn
Singing Together              #1064, Blue Boat Home
Benediction 
Circle Round

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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