07-20-2025 Order of Service

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Holy as Mud

Sunday, July 20, 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                                 Moods, K. FitzGerald

Karen FitzGerald, keyboard artist

Welcome                                             Tom Nicholas, celebrant
Prelude                                                Summer Rain, K. FitzGerald
Opening Words                                   Rev. Barbara W. ten Hove, minister
Hymn                                                   #360, Here We Have Gathered
Chalice Lighting
Reading the Covenant

Love is the spirit of this fellowship,
and service gives it life. Celebrating our diversity, and
joined by a quest for truth, we work for peace and honor
all creation. This is our covenant.

Children’s Blessing

We hold you our love as you go as
you go. May your hearts be at peace as you go. To
nurture the spark of your precious life, we hold you in our
love as you go. (Children may leave for program)

SEJC Collection                                 Restorative CommUnity Coalition

Irene Morgan, founder

Offertory                                             Waltz of the Wildflowers by K. FitzGerald
Reading                                              To Be of Use by M. Piercy
Musical Response                             Warriors of the Heart by K. FitzGerald
Sermon                                               Holy as Mud, Rev. B. ten Hove
Hymn                                                  #347, Gather the Spirit
Closing Words & Extinguish Chalice
Closing Song                                     #155, Circle Round for Freedom

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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