Holy Change
Sunday, August 25, 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
All that you touch, you change. All that you change, changes you.
The only lasting truth is change. — OCTAVIA BUTLER
Gathering Music Seasons of Life & His Eye is On the Sparrow
arr. M. Hayes
Melanie Rieck, keyboard artist
Welcome /Announcements Steffany Raynes, celebrant
Prelude Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor
arr. L. Shackley
Opening Words Rev. Barbara W. ten Hove, affiliated minister
Singing Together #134, Our World is One World
Chalice Lighting & Covenant
Story of All Ages
Singing the Children Out We Hold You In Our Love…
Meditation Rev. Paul Beckel, minister
Singing Together #396, I Know This Rose Will Open
Sermon Holy Change
Singing Together #1020, Woyaya
Offertory The Swan
by C. Saint-Saens
Ben Workman Smith, cello
Closing words
Extinguish Chalice
Singing Together #155, Circle Round
Afterward
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