04-13-2025 Order of Service

Afraid of Being with the Dying? Don’t be.

Sunday, April 13, 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

One Request for those I’ve loved and
left behind; May your everyday, every
moment, fill your hearts and lives with love and peace.


Gathering Music               Reverie, by Colin Curtis
To Make You Feel My love, by Bob Dylan
Welcome                   
Prelude                              A Girl’s Garden, by Randall Thompsen
performed by The Phoenix Ensemble
Chalice Lighting
As surely as we belong to the universe, We belong
together. We join here to transcend the isolated self,
To reconnect, To know ourselves to be at home, Here
on earth, under the stars, Linked with each other.
Covenant
Children’s Focus              The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
by, Leo Buscaglia
read by Rev. Barbara Gilday
Children’s Blessing          We Hold You In Our Love…

Singing Together              #354, We Laugh, We Cry
Introduction of Guest Speaker
Message
Sharing our Gifts
Offertory                            Schindler’s List

by John Williams ~ arr. By Mark Hayes

Singing Together               #306, Sing of Living Sing of Dyin,g
Benediction         
Circle Round
Coffee Hour Question:
– What images come into your mind when you hear the words “man” or “men”?
– One of the questions that was raised in the service was, What does it mean to be strong? What is a time in your life when you acted with strength? Explain.
– Is masculinity an appropriate topic to address in a BUF service? Why, or why not?

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.

If you’re new, we’d be grateful to have you provide us with contact information so we can let you know what’s happening here. There are buff-colored visitor contact cards in the pew racks, and in the entryway, that you can drop in the collection basket. Or provide your contact information HERE. 


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