Resilience and Reciprocity: Lessons from the Natural World
Sunday, March 23, 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 Lyric Pieces by Edvard Grieg
Welcome Steffany Raynes
Prelude To a Wild Rose by Edward MacDowell
Melanie Rieck, piano
Chalice Lighting Carrie Koehnline
Covenant
Singing Together From you I receive, to you I give…
Reflections Steffany
Chalice Choir Sure on this Shining Night
Choir Director Ben Workman Smith
Reflections Lark Clayton
Women’s Retreat Invitation
Singing together
Repeat. Repeat.
It comes around and around again
like a chorus, waiting for us.
Let’s sing it once again.
Repeat. Repeat.
Let’s come back every time we can.
It’s so sweet, this invitation to
repeat it all again.
Welcoming Judy Kasper, Rev Paul Beckel
New Members Marsha Volkommer, Rob Volkommer,
Jim Shaver, Jennifer Shaver, Ahwren Ayers
Congregational response: We will, joyfully. We will strive to be our best selves with you, while listening closely to know who you are. We will offer you here a place of rest and solace … and endless opportunities to learn and to serve. We will accept responsibility for our own actions,
strive to practice forgiveness, and expect you to do the same.
Sharing our Gifts Spring Song by Felix Mendelssohn
Singing Together #1064, Blue Boat Home
Benediction
Circle Round
Afterward
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