4-7-2024 Order of Service

Time Out: The Good the Bad and the Renewal

Sunday, April 7, 2024, 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


Prelude                                      Andrea Rackl, Douglas Firs by Stephen Chatman

Welcome

Chalice Lighting                       Clearing by Martha Postlewaite

Covenant                       

Singing Together                      #361, Enter, Rejoice and Come In

Children’s Focus                      Jared’s Cool-Out Space by Dr. Jane Nelson

Children’s Blessing                  We Hold You In Our Love

Announcements           

Healthy Relationships              Lin Skavdahl

Reading                                      from Jill Ann Terwilliger (see below)

Special Music                            Lizz Roberts, You Are The New Day

Sermon                                      Barbara Gilday

Time Out: The Good the Bad and the Renewal

Offertory                                    Andrea Rackl, Sonata, L.358, by Scarlatti

Singing Together                      #299, Make Channels for the Streams of Love

Closing Words

Extinguishing the Chalice                   

Singing Together                      #155, 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.

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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Responsive Reading, by Jill Ann Terwilliger

For the longing that told you it was time for a change,
We send you our love and encouragement.
For the courage it took to answer the call,
We send you our love and encouragement.
For the choices already made and the daily choices that will shape the life ahead,
We send you our love and encouragement.
For the communities that have shown you who you are and the new
communities waiting to discover you in your new ventures,
We send you our love and encouragement.

For the great mystery of what lies ahead,
We send you our love and encouragement.

May we all see something of beauty along the way, touch hands with those
we love, and give more than we get.