Love Changes Us
Sunday, October 6, 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
Love comes into the world when no one is looking.
It holds us for a moment
While we think it is something else.
—Tom Nicholas
Gathering Music Andrea Rackl, piano
Welcome Rev Paul Beckel
Prelude
Chalice Lighting & Covenant Tom Nicholas
Gathering Song #128, For All That Is Our Life
Children’s Focus Tell me a Story, Mama, by Angela Johnson
read by Cindy Denchfield
Children’s Blessing We Hold You In Our Love…
Announcements
New Member Ceremony Judy Kasper
welcoming Tom Nicholas, Su Livingston, Lucy Kesterson
Congregational Response—to the charge to welcome and embrace these new members:
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.
Reflections, Part 1
Interlude
Reflections, Part 2
Offertory
Singing Together #131, Love Will Guide Us
Benediction
Extinguish 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.
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