Sunday Service 06/23/2024

Sunday Worship: "Weaving Our Lives"
General Assembly 2024

Sunday Worship: "Weaving Our Lives"
General Assembly 2024, June 23
with Rev. Molly Housh Gordon

See Order of Service below or HERE

We are all tangled up together in a great web of life that is woven with beauty and hardship, love and loss, thriving and struggle. How do we tend well to the weaving so that all of us are held in care?

Rev. Molly Housh Gordon will be joined by Violet Vonder Haar, Jamila Bachelder, Rev. Leon Dunkely, Rev. Eric Kaminetsky, Rev. Joan Javier-Duvall, Rev. Jordinn Nelson Long, Rev. Aaron Wisman, Rev. Sadie Lansdale, and Rev. Sarah Oglesby-Dunegan.

Featuring musicians: Natasha Steinmacher, GA Music Coordinator; Lea Morris; Francisco Ruiz; beheld; Violet Vonder Haar; Paul Winchester; and choirs from All Souls Unitarian Church, Indianapolis, IN; First Parish in Concord, MA; First Parish UU in Lexington, MA; First UU Congregation of Ann Arbor, MI; UU Fellowship in Athens, GA; UU Fellowship of Poughkeepsie, NY; UU Church in Cherry Hill, NJ; UU Church in Reston, VA; and UU of Minnetonka, MN.

The worship collection will benefit Side with Love, including its campaigns for climate justice (Create Climate Justice), democracy (UU the Vote), and bodily autonomy, including reproductive, LGBTQIA+, and disability justice (UPLIFT Action).
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Order of Service
Weaving Our Lives
June 23, 2024 at 10:30 AM PT

Introduction – Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon

Prelude – “Here Together” by David M Glasgow – featuring choirs from All Souls Unitarian
Church Indianapolis, IN; First Parish in Concord, MA; First Parish UU in Lexington, MA; First UU
Congregation of Ann Arbor, MI; UU Fellowship in Athens, GA; UU Fellowship of Poughkeepsie,
NY; UU Church in Cherry Hill, NJ; UU Church in Reston, VA; and UU of Minnetonka, MN

Opening Words – Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon, Rev. Eric Kaminetzky, Rev. Sarah Oglesby-
Dunegan, Rev. Sadie Lansdale, Rev. Aaron Stockwell Wisman

Chalice Lighting – Gretchen Maune & Members of the UU Church of Columbia, MO

Story – from Through the Mickle Wood by Valiska Gregory – read by Rev. Dr. Leon Dunkley Jr.

Interlude - ”We Are Weaving Our Lives” by Alexa Sunshine Rose, performed by beheld

Centering Moment – Jamila Batchelder, Director of Religious Education & Violet Vonder Haar,
Director of Music Ministry, UU Church of Columbia, MO

Congregational Song – “We are Weaving Our Lives” by Alexa Sunshine Rose – led by Violet
Vonder Haar

We are weaving our lives
We are weaving our hearts and our minds
We are weaving the bright and dark threads
Of our journeys through

We are weaving our lives
We are weaving a blanket of light
We are weaving a basket to hold
All that’s true

Prayer & Moment of Contemplation – Rev. Joan Javier-Duval

​Hymn of Response – “Spirit of Life” by Carolyn McDade – led by Natasha Steinmacher

Spirit of Life, come unto me.
Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion.

Blow in the wind, rise in the sea;
move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice.

Roots hold me close; wings set me free;
Spirit of Life, come to me, come to me.

Reading – “Shaking the Tree” by Jeanne Lohmann – read by Rev. Jordinn Nelson Long

Anthem - “Weave and Spin” by Starhawk – performed by Lea Morris

Sermon – “Weaving Our Lives” – Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon

Hymn – “Circle Round For Freedom” by Linda Hirschhorn – led by Natasha Steinmacher and Francisco Ruiz

​Circle ‘round for freedom, circle ‘round for peace,
for all of us imprisoned, circle for release,
circle for the planet, circle for each soul,
for the children of our children, keep the circle whole.

Offering Introduction - Nicole Pressley for Side with Love

Offertory – “Hold On” by Yola, performed by beheld

Benediction – Rev. Dr. Molly Housh Gordon

Postlude - “Weaving Our Songs” arranged by Paul Winchester; music by David M. Glasgow, Alexa Sunshine Rose, Carolyn McDade, and Starhawk