12-14-2025 Order of Service

All Music Sunday

Sunday, December 14th, 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                                Friends, Karen FitzGerald

Ben Workman Smith, cello; Karen FitzGerald, piano

Welcome                                            Su Livingston, celebrant

Prelude                                               Climb Every Mountain, Richard Rodgers arr. Mark Hayes

Melanie Rieck, keyboard artist

Chalice Lighting                                We Bring Light, Andy Backus

Ben Workman Smith, choir director

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.

Hymn                                                 #1000, Morning Has Come

Meditation on Resolution                Rebekah Paci-Green

Chalice Choir                                    Hope for Resolution, arr. P. Caldwell & S. Ivory

Beth Beyers, alto sax; Nathan Matson, percussion

Hymn                                                 #1035, Freedom is Coming

Special Music                                   I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Marks and Longfellow

Karen FitzGerald and Scott Heise

Offertory                                           O Come, O Come Emmanuel and Pat-a-Pan, arr. Carol Klose

Phoenix Pool                                    Betelehemu Babatunde Olatunji

Nathan Matson, percussion

Clara Barton Sisterhood Honor      Kara Black

Phoenix Pool                                    Be Like the Bird, Abbie Betinis

Chalice Choir                                  Earth Song, Frank Ticheli

Reflective Ritual                             Ben Workman Smith

Hymn                                               #1020, Woyaya

Closing Words and Extinguishing the 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.

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