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Next Sunday, March 10 – “Can I Take that Back?” – join guest speaker Rev. Terry Cummings. Did something you said ever have unintended consequences? Did you ever wish you could take back something you said in the hope that it would change what happened next? Join is for worship this Sunday as our guest minister, Rev. Terry Cummings of the Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Prescott, Arizona leads us in worship. Rev. Terry will explore the connection between our words and the universe.
The Flowers this Morning are from Jo Ellen. The flowers are in honor of her mother’s (Marge Scholten) birthday.
Sunday Morning Volunteer Program (MVP) Team One is handling the duties of greeting, ushering, providing coffee service and clean-up today. Team One is led by Alice Schneider. She is joined by Mary Smith, Gladys Warren, Richard Smith, Dave Wallace, Gary Gebhart, John Tensing and Mary Kay Tensing.
Sound Technician: Tim Christy
Assistive Listening Devices for people needing hearing enhancement are available at the rear of the sanctuary.
All are invited to write their Joys and Sorrows in the book at the back of the sanctuary.
Today’s Family Programming Volunteers: Infant and Toddlers – Joan Johnson; Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Morita Marmo; First to Third grade – Faith Maynard and Laurie Rivers; Fourth and Fifth – Sallie Barringer and Jo Ellen; Junior High – Chuck Schneider; Senior High – Jeffrey Hildebrand
First Unitarian Church of Cincinnati
536 Linton Street * Cincinnati, Ohio 45219 (513) 281-1564 * www.firstuu.com
Rev. Connie Simon, Minister [email protected]
First Unitarian Church
of Cincinnati
Leading Lives of Justice, Love and Hope
March 3, 2019 Rev. Connie Simon
Leading Lives of Justice, Love and Hope March 3, 2019
Rev. Connie Simon Jera Cox, Director of Music
Meredith Plummer, Director of Family Programming Tim Christy and Alice Schneider, Worship Associates
First Unitarian Singers with Children Danny Groh, percussion
Rozy Park, Chris, Park and Carter Dendy
Gathering
Welcoming and Announcements
Prelude Give Us Hope Jim Papoulis
Call to Worship and Chalice Lighting
Vision Song We are a liberal religious haven, welcoming wonder, and spiritually free. We’re sustained by a loving tradition, moved and inspired by the future we see. Boldly seeking and working for justice, gently transforming lives through deeds great and small. Young and old, sharing meaning and mission, we joyfully offer our vision to all!
Shelley Jackson Denham
Greeting One Another
Stewardship Anthem Volunteers for America Jefferson Starship
Story for All Ages
Story for All Ages The Long-Handled Spoons
Singing the Children Out You bring us hope and help to see our future world that’s yet to be. You teach us much as years go by. You are our strength, our joy, our pride.
Dot Christenson
Sharing of Concerns
Sharing of Joys and Sorrows
Concerns of the Larger Community
Ritual of Concern
Meditation
Hymn #95 There is More Love Somewhere
Commitment
Offering
Offertory Shall We Gather at the River Mark Hayes
Receiving
Reading The Task of the Religious Community Sean Neil-Barron
Presentation The First Church Community
Sermon Leading Lives of Justice, Love and Hope
Hymn #1028 The Fire of Commitment
Returning
Extinguishing the Chalice We extinguish this flame, but not the light of truth, the warmth of community or the fire of commitment. These we carry in our hearts until we are together again.
Benediction
Postlude Celebrate Kool and the Gang
ESPECIALLY FOR VISITORS
Welcome! We’re delighted you’re here today. Stop by the Welcome Counter (as you entered the building) for a pre-stamped information card that you can complete at home and mail back to us or fill out a card if you have time this morning. Then we can send you our newsletter and information on what’s happening at First Church. Want to find out about Unitarian Universalism and First Church? Come to “Getting to Know YoUU,” an informal session with Rev. Connie March 24 Before the service. Get your questions answered and meet other visitors search-ing for a church home. No RSVPs needed and childcare is provided. Come to Room 207 – up the stairs and to the end of the hall – just after the service (about 11:15). For questions, please contact Carol Lloyd, 513.515.6891 or [email protected].
Ready to join First Church? If you’ve attended a Getting to Know YoUU session or have been a member of a UU church elsewhere and are interested in joining First Church, please contact Carol Lloyd. The next opportunity to join is during the service on March 24.
TODAY
Today in Sunday School your prekindergartner and kindergartner will learn and discover new and interesting things about the world around them. Your first to third grader will learn about Unitarian builder, inven-tor and politico Peter Cooper. Your fourth and fifth grader will learn about Catholic saint St. Francis. Upstairs, your junior high youth will explore spiritual concepts through art and discussion, while your senior high youth explores ethics in everyday life.
Sign up today for the Better Angels Workshop here at First Church on Sat., March 9 at 10 a.m. You will find the table for sign-ups during coffee hour, or contact Pat Smart at [email protected]
UPCOMING EVENTS Sun., March 10 – 11:30 a.m. in Room 207 – Join the First Church HUUmanists for Author Richard Hague, Cincinnati author and teach-er, will read some passages about our locale from his book Earnest Occu-pations. He will also touch upon the images of Appalachians in recent books by local writers: Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, who is now a Walnut Hills resident, and the just-published Appalachian Reckoning, a criticism of the former, to which Dick and other Cincinnatians with Appalachian roots have contributed. Dick’s “Earnest Occupations” include intense gardening, writing, and other lifelong interests. Richard C. (Dick) Bozi-an, 513.521.2391, [email protected]
Thurs., March 14, 7 p.m. in the Ellen Hall Room - Annie Patter-son & Charlie King will be in concert. Charlie King is a musical story-teller, hailed by Pete Seeger as “one of the finest singers and songwrit-ers of our time”. Annie Patterson is the co-creator of the Rise Up Sing-ing. Please join us in an evening with two fine activist folk singers at a concert that benefits IJPC Intercommunity Justice and Peace Cen-ter. Tickets at riseupandsing.org
Sat., March 16, 10 a.m. – at Bev Baker’s home at 3260 Southwoods Lane. Join the First Church Women’s Group and guest speakers Dee Chavez, RN and Jeanne Corwin, MD. They are activists working to achieve fundamental health care reform as members of SPAN (Single Payor Action Network).
WONDER QUESTIONS
• Have you ever been a visitor to heaven or hell? How did you know where you were?
• How do you create heaven on earth?
• What does this story have to do with our annual canvass?
This year’s Stewardship Campaign’s theme is “Leading Lives of Justice, Love and Hope. These words embody our principles in our dealings with one another and with visitors. You should have got-ten a letter with the brochure in it. It has the information that you will need to consider your pledge to the church.
The drive for financial pledges kicks off today! You should have gotten a letter with the brochure in it. It has the information that you will need to consider your pledge to the church. Following the service there will be a luncheon (with a 16-foot Subway sandwich, fruit and a cake). At the luncheon we will honor the staff and cele-brate our church community. You can make a pledge – either online (the Giving tab on our home page -firstuu.com), or on the form in the brochure, you can ask us for one today.
Childcare is available—see Alice Schneider.
Tim Christie 859.441.01741, [email protected] and
Alice Schneider 513.470.5042, [email protected]