Truth Does Not Survive
Unspoken
Sunday, March 12, 2023, 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
A Message
The call from God was clear –
Find that place inside yourself where you can love.
Keep making the effort.
Your story gives back to people who thought you had disappeared.
—Rick Hermann
Gathering Music Meditation in the Rain, Flight of the Eagle, I’ll Fly Away
Melanie Rieck, piano
Welcome Rev. Paul Beckel
Chalice Lighting I Looked into the Woods Today, words by Rick Hermann
music by Lisa Heezen, sung by the BUF Phoenix Ensemble
Choir Director Kevin Allen-Schmid
Covenant
Singing Together #163, For the Earth Forever Turning
Dancing Together Pam Kuntz
Friend to Me, by Rick Hermann; Su Livingston, piano and vocal
Tributes Eli Hermann & Annie Grace Haddorff
LA Freeway / “A Message” / “If I Come Back”
Singing Together In the Silence (at back of grey hymnal)
Tributes
Chalice Choir The Water is Wide, Scottish folk song, new lyrics by Paul Carey
Sharing our Gifts Sonatina in Colors (Blue)/Sonatina in Flight by Kevin Olson
Singing Together #1064, Blue Boat Home
Benediction Go in Peace, by Sam Baker; Andrea Rackl, piano
Tessie Mandeville and Lisa Heezen, vocals
Singing Together #155, Circle ‘Round
Postlude My Life Flows on in Endless Song
Afterward
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