Order of Service
Water Communion
Sunday, September 8, 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
Gathering Music Painting the Sun by David Lanz
Melanie Rieck, keyboard artist
Welcome Rev Paul Beckel
Prelude Shall We Gather at the River, arr. Rocherolle
Chalice Lighting & Covenant
Singing Together #1000, Morning Has Come
Children’s Focus Mini Water Communion
Introduction Lis Epperson, Religious Education Coordinator
Singing the Children Out
Introduction Ben Workman Smith, Choir Director
Offertory Earth Was Given as a Garden arr. Mark Hayes
Reflections on the Water
Interlude Moonlit Dive, written and played by Su Livingston
Water Communion
Chalice Choir We Are One, by Brian Tate
Merging of the Waters
Singing Together #1064, Blue Boat Home
Benediction
Extinguish Chalice
Singing Together #155, Circle Round
Afterward
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