Join us for this service via an on-line Zoom Meeting
This week is the Feast Day for Francis of Assisi, the saint who has become associated with patronage of animals and the natural environment. What better time to explore how we’re related in ways we don’t often acknowledge, and honor our animal companions? The service will feature poetry by our own Deb Myrbo, and include an interactive pet blessing.
And it’s our first monthly Youth Sunday! Rev. Karen will meet with our youth directly after the service.
Share the Plate
Share the Plate donations this week will go to Open Doors for Refugees, an all-volunteer organization founded in 2016 and based in Madison, whose mission is to help refugees make a home in the Madison area.
Our donations will directly support their skill-building program and Home Supply program for refugees.
Order of Service
- Gathering Song: #188 “Come, Come, Whoever You Are”
- Centering Sound
- Welcome
- Prelude: “Human Connection,” by Quinn L’Esperance
- Call to Worship
- Opening Hymn: #21 “For the Beauty of the Earth”
- Lighting the Chalice
- Musical Response
- Time for All Ages: “Not Afraid,” Sparsh Shah
- Hymn: #1003 “Where Do We Come From?”
- Wisdom from the World’s Traditions: “DNA,” Deb Myrbo
- Reflection: “More Alike than Different” with Rev. Karen
- Offering: “Just As You Are,” by Lea Morris
- Joys and Sorrows
- Closing Hymn: #175 “We Celebrate the Web of Life”
- Extinguishing the Chalice and Benediction
- Postlude: “All God’s Creatures Have A Place In The Choir,” by Bill Staines, sung by The King’s Barbers and student from King’s Ely school