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This Week: "Prophetic Imagination" - Rev. Linda Simmons
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"Prophetic Imagination"
Rev. Linda Simmons

What are we forgetting to imagine and what might imagining more openly do for our ability to build the world we dream about? This sermon will consider who we have become as a people, how to get to where we want to be, and how to walk together as we go.
 
Music with Barbara Elder and the UU Meeting House Choir

Religious Exploration with Leyah Jensen & Sherlly Morocoima

10:45 a.m. - Hendrix Hall & Activities Room

All sermons are available in Mp3 and written format online at: http://www.unitarianchurchnantucket.org/sermons
 

See you at the UU Meeting House!

Linda
Rev. Linda Simmons, Minister
Second Congregational Society/Unitarian Universalist
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Welcome to the Historic
Unitarian Universalist
Meeting House

Nantucket Island

Open Doors
Open Minds
Open Hearts

 
Sunday, January 6, 2019
 
Prophetic Imagination

order of Service
Order of Service
January 6, 2019
 
Prelude          The Boats Are Talking
Randall Thompson   
 
Welcome & Announcements                                                           Rev. Linda & David Hall
 
Chalice Lighting
     With this flame we renew our commitment to justice,
     peace and compassion
 
*Affirmation                                                                                                                         All
    From all that dwell below the skies,
    Let faith and hope with love arise.
    Let beauty, truth, and good be sung
    Through every land, by every tongue. Amen
 
Poem          First Lesson                                                                                    Gina Simmons
Phillip Booth
                                                    
*Hymn #134 Our World is One World
 
Greeting One Another
 
Story for All Ages                      Imagine                                                            Leyah Jensen
Juan Felipe Herrera
 
Children’s Blessing                                                                                                              All
    Go now in peace, go now in peace.
    May the light of love surround you,
    Everywhere, everywhere, you may go.
   Words and music by Natalie Sleeth
   Children depart for the Religious Exploration Program
 
Anthem          Sweet Peace
 Richard Jay Hyman 

Meditation/Reflection 
                                                                                               
Joys and Concerns                                                           
 
Hymn #350 The Ceaseless Flow of Time
 
Sermon          Prophetic Imagination                                                                      Rev. Linda
 
Moment of Silence
 
Our Gifts We Bring                                                                               Kat Robinson Grieder
                                                        
Offertory          Gymnopedie No. 1
Erik Satie     
 
*Hymn #1064 Blue Boat Home  
 
Closing        I Have Come into this World to See This                                Christine Sanford
Hafiz                                                                                  
 
Benediction 
 
Extinguishing the Chalice              
    Carry the flame of peace and love until we meet again
 
**Postlude          Wondrous Love
Phillip Keveren  
 
Sunday Morning Participants
Sunday Service Leader – Rev. Linda Simmons
Music Director – Barbara Elder
UU Meeting House Choir – Cynthia Csabay, Al Fuller, Cheryl Fuller, Val Hall, Haziel Jackson, Polly Miller, Grace Noyes, Phaedra Plank, Jim Sulzer, Nancy Tobias, Jeffrey Thomson
Coffee Hour Host – Coffee Hour this week is a potluck. Coffee Hour is also generously funded this week by a grant given by the Strand Family to help us tie up those potluck loose ends.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Let justice roll down like water,
and peace like an ever flowing stream.

 
Hebrew Bible, Amos 5:24
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