UU Sunday Service, Sunday, October 15, 2023
This month’s theme is Love Sermon: The Giving Tree by Rev. Kirk Loadman-Copeland
This Sunday we feature the UU Principle #2: We affirm and promote justice, equity and compassion in human relations.
(Bruce, you can add here the part about Love from last week’s newsletter)
Announcements & Calendar
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Inn Ministry is especially asking for donations of fresh produce, especially fruit, such as apples and oranges, but vegetables, also. They continue, as always, to need milk and protein and cash donations for the much-needed bus passes.
This Sunday, October 15th we will hold our monthly Pot Luck. Please stay and eat with us.
On Sunday Oct. 29 we will remember our loved ones with a Day of the Dead Service. Please consider creating a simple Memory Board . Those who wish can give a brief [1-2 minutes] explanation of what the Memory Board symbolizes.
Saturday Oct. 14 is Election Day. Please consider giving rides to the polls to friends and family.
On October 21, there will be a state wide UU event in Baton Rouge.
Bridging the Gap: Truthful Conversations & Racial Healing on Saturday, October 14
in Alexandria, LA at 10 am- 12 noon at St. James Episcopal Church. This is an event to help promote racial healing.
EVENTS CALENDAR:
Our theme in October is Love
October is Depression, Breast Cancer Awareness, and Domestic Abuse Awareness Month
October 14 -- Election Day and Bridging the Gap [Alexandria]
October 15 -- Service & Potluck [ German & French foods]
October 17 -- International Day for Eradication of Poverty
October 21 -- UU state wide event in Baton Rouge
October 22 -- Guest Speaker-- Peyton Rose Michelle
October 29 -- Day of the Dead Service and Full Moon --check web for info
October 31 -- Halloween [Samhain]
SERVICE
This week’s music:
Prelude: Love Is the Key
Song 1: There is a Love by Elizabeth Norton &Rev. Rebecca Parker. There was fun & laughter trying it out last week. Dale is determined to see us master it!
Song 2: Love Is Little, a traditional Shaker hymn
Offertory: From You I Receive, played by Scott & For Once in My Life played by Bruce
Call to Worship: Be ours a religion by Rev. Theodore Parker
Chalice Lighting: The Light of Truth by Rev. Richard Fewkes
Joys & Concerns
Reading: We Must Be Saved by Reinhold Niebuhr
Responsive Reading: Love Versus Hate by Dhammapada (#597 SLT, the grey hymnal)
Meditation
Sermon: The Giving Tree by Rev. Kirk Loadman-Copeland
Offertory
Chalice Extinction: A Guiding Light by Rev. Martha Munson
Ascription: As We Leave This Sacred Space by Vincent B. Silliman, adapted
Benediction: Love Is the Doctrine by Rev. Lucas Hergert
Announcements &Calendar: See above