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Join Us for Sunday Services!
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March 21st, 10 am
"Bear Witness: Save Lives"
Led By CB Beal
In order to tell our stories, it is vital that we are able to trust that people will be still and bear witness to us, acknowledge and accept what we share. We must be present with one another with an empathy that honors our different life experiences. Guest worship leader CB Beal will share about the spiritual practice of bearing witness and trusting others to bear witness to us, with a particular focus on gender.
CB Beal is a fat, white, queer, non-binary educator, writer, storyteller, and speaker. CB was the 2019 recipient of the Unitarian Universalist Association’s Angus H. MacLean Award for Excellence in Religious Education. They make their home in a farmhouse library loft in western Massachusetts and consult with individuals and organizations to increase consent culture, equity, and justice in the world. You can find them online at About CB – Justice and Peace Consulting.
UUS invites you to join this service at 10 am using Zoom (Link to Join), Meeting ID: 422 482 660, Passcode: 006311, or dial by your location for phone conferencing)
The Offerings in March support the Center for Worker Justice
Working with interfaith and labor allies, the Center for Worker Justice (CWJ) has led efforts to raise the minimum wage for all workers, coordinated projects to address injustices in workplace conditions, unpaid wages, civil rights, access to education, and the need for affordable housing.
Additionally, CWJ has created a COVID relief program to pass along stimulus money to families in need, including non-English speakers, and immigrants who do not get a stimulus check. These families are more likely to be laid off, have hours reduced, or be working fast food and other jobs for under $10 an hour. Through their application process, CWJ has already passed along more than $200k.
Learn more at cwjiowa.org.
Make an online offering donation. Checks can also be mailed to the office (CWJ on the memo line).
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Meeting Opens at 9:50 am
Pre-Meeting Music and Zoom Instructions
Service Begins at 10 am
Prelude: Ye Banks and Ye Braes (Dave Rowe, Online Music Leader)
Traditional
Welcome (Peggy Garrigues, Director of Congregational Life and Zoom Host)
Call to Gather: An Eye for Miracles, by Diego Valeri (Valerie Bowman, Worship Associate)
Chalice Lighting (Valerie Bowman)
Centering Music: Lead Me, Lord (Dave Rowe)
Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Lighting A Candle for Justice and Healing (Valerie Bowman)
Opening Hymn: #347 Gather the Spirit (Dave Rowe)
Jim Scott, ©1990 Jim Scott
A Time for All Ages: SPORK, by Kyo Maclear (CB Beal, Guest Worship Leader)
Offering: Center for Worker Justice (Valerie Bowman)
Offertory: Let There Be Peace on Earth (Dave Rowe)
Sy Miller, Jill Jackson, ©1955 Jan-Lee Music
Reading: For Nothing is Fixed, by James Baldwin (CB Beal)
Source: #186 Lifting Our Voices
Meditation
Meditative Music: Slane (Ian Cawley)
Traditional Irish Melody
Message: Bear Witness: Save Lives (CB Beal)
Closing Hymn: #1012 When I Am Frightened (Dave Rowe)
Shelley Jackson Denham, ©1999 Shelley Jackson Denham, arr. Jeannie Gagné
Extinguishing the Chalice (Valerie Bowman)
Benediction (CB Beal)
Choral Benediction: Blessed Be (UUS Virtual Choir)
Dave Rowe ©2021 Dave Rowe Music LLC
Traveling Music: Hyfrydol (Dave Rowe)
Rowland Hugh Prichard
Breakout rooms for small group social time will follow the service.
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8:30 am: Racial Justice Team
The Racial Justice Team strives to educate ourselves through various venues (reading, discussion, media, programs). We meet on the 1st & 3rd Sundays each month at 8:30 am before the service. With goals to further anti-racism, we hope to equip ourselves to be allies standing in solidarity with communities of color. Join us on our journey! Watch for weekly updates in the Wednesday emails. For more information contact Peg Bouska at racialjusticechair@uusic.org.
( Link to Join, Meeting ID: 817 0436 9460, Passcode: 886687).
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