Order of Service, March 11, 2018

Prelude: Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)

Welcome 

*Hymn #21: For The Beauty of the Earth

Introduction of Visitors

Lighting the Chalice Flame 

* Affirmation: (in unison) Love is the spirit of this Congregation and service is its law. This is our great covenant to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another.

Introduction: Live Gratitude

Quiet Time/ Meditation/Prayer

Readings – Thom Irwin

Offertory: Thankful (Josh Groban) sung by Marina Kabellar

Message: Live Gratitude  Gary Evans

*Song: Thank You for Being a Friend (see insert)

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame (in unison) 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.

Closing Words

Postlude: Despacito 
Gratitude & Applause
* Please stand in body or spirit
Join us for refreshments & fellowship in Ministers Hall 
Hearing devices, and envelopes for cash pledges are available on the hymnal cart or ask an usher.

This Week
Today: Social Hour 11:30am in Ministers Hall. Council meeting, noon, Channing Room.
Monday-Friday: Administration Office hours 9:30am-12:30pm
Monday: Comedy Club -Roy Zimmerman 7pm in Ministers Hall.
Tuesday: Board of Trustees meeting 6:30pm in the Channing Room.
Thursday:  JAM Meeting 5pm in Ministers Hall. Catered dinner 6pm in Ministers Hall. Teaching Thursday presentation at 7pm - Dayan Martinez on the UU Pagans. 
Saturday: Food Packing, 9am, Ministers Hall. Social Justice Film, 12:30pm, Ministers Hall.
Sunday:  News Talk at 9:15am in Ministers Hall.  JAM Grant Collection at 10:30am  

Gratitude
Thank you to all who contribute to our service and fellowship hour each week. This week:
• Music coordinator: Peilin Ko
• Guest Musician: Valentina Paolucci
• Cover art: Gary Evans; assisted by David Traupman
• Ushers: Deborah Fairchild & Mary Mansfield
• Fellowship hour hospitality: Kim Hetrick; assisted by Coleen Conway.

And to our permanent staff:
• Barbara Hatzfeld, office administrator
• Willie Nelson, sexton. 

Announcements
• Next Sunday: “Ostara” Rev. Dan Lambert and Dayan Martinez
• Rev. Dr. Dan Lambert Office Hours: Tuesday 5pm-8pm and Thursday 9am-Noon. His office telephone # is 561-627-6106. His e-mail is revdan@1stuupb.org. 
• Food Items collected during the offertory are donated to the Lake Park Food Pantry, 
• Shoes and toiletry articles collected are donated to the Haitian Community.

Barbara Begg, daughter of Miriam Maddux (formerly the oldest member of the Congregation) wishes to sell some of Miriam’s paintings, by appointment. Please call 561-242-0936.
Artists: It is time to collect your art work from Ministers Hall.

NewsTalk Topics for March 11

- what did the Florida legislature do to you this year?

- who left the White House or the Administration this week?

- how did Melania Trump's parents get their green cards?

- will Israeli Prime Minister have to resign?

- will a trade war come about because the President came "unglued"?

Order of Service, March 4, 2018

Prelude: The Song that Nature Sings, sung by the choir

Welcome

*Lighting the Chalice Flame: Hymn #188: Come, Come Whoever You Are

Introduction of Visitors 

*Affirmation: (in unison) Love is the spirit of this Congregation and service is its law. This is our great covenant to dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love and to help one another.

*Hymn #298: Wake, Now My Senses

Commissioning service for the P.E.A.C.E. Network

Quiet Time/ Meditation/Prayer

Offertory: I Shall Not Be Moved, sung by Vangie Gruen

Sermon: The Right of Conscience and the Use of the Democratic Process Within Our Congregations and in Society at Large,  Rev Dr Dan Lambert

*Hymn #169: We Shall Overcome

Announcements

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame (in unison) 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.

Postlude: I Won’t Back Down (Tom Petty)
Gratitude & Applause
* Please stand in body or spirit
Join Us For Refreshments & Fellowship
Hearing devices, and envelopes for cash pledges are available on the hymnal cart or ask an usher.

This Week
Today: Social Hour 11:30 am in Ministers Hall. UU Pagans Coffee 1pm in Ministers Hall.
Monday-Friday: Administration Office hours 9:30am-12:30pm
Tuesday: Men’s Group at the Waterway Café at 6:30pm
Thursday: Catered dinner 6pm, Ministers Hall. Teaching Thursday presentation at 7pm – Important Spiritual Thinkers of HistoryMuhammad, presented by the Rev Dr Dan Lambert.
Friday: Art Studio 6pm, Ministers Hall
Saturday: Second Saturday Book Group at 10am in the Sanctuary.
Sunday: News Talk at 9:15am in Ministers Hall.

Announcements
• Next Sunday: “Live Gratitude” Gary Evans
• Rev. Dr. Dan Lambert Office Hours: Tuesday
5pm-8pm and Thursday 9am-Noon. His office telephone # is 561-627-6106. His e-mail is revdan@1stuupb.org.
• Food Items collected during the offertory are donated to the Lake Park Food Pantry,
• Shoes and Toiletry Articles collected are donated to the Haitian Community.

Gratitude
Thank you to all who contribute to our service and fellowship hour each week. This week:
• Music coordinator: Peilin Ko
• Cover art: Larry Stauber
• Ushers: Betsy & Bob Shipley
• Fellowship hour hospitality: Diana Colardi, assisted by Amy Stauber
And to our permanent staff:
• Barbara Hatzfeld, office administrator
• Willie Nelson, sexton.
Flowers today were donated by Margaret Robson in memory of Norman Robson.

1stUUPB Newsletter Coming in New Format

New format for your 1stUUPB newsletter coming soon.
Beginning March 11, recipients of “Lately at 1stUUPB" will receive their newsletter directly by email in a new format. Text and/or graphic submissions can be emailed anytime to admin@1stuupb.org. The deadline is 5pm Wednesday for publication the following Sunday.

Teaching Thursday, March 8

Teaching Thursday, March 8, 7pm in Ministers Hall: Important Spiritual Thinkers of History -- Muhammad”, presented by the Rev Dr Dan Lambert.

Dinner at 6pm in Ministers Hall will be catered by Golden Star.
The menu is:
Moo Goo Gai Pan
Buddha’s Delight
Sweet & Sour Pork
Brown Rice
Fried Rice
Cookies & Ice Cream

B Y O B
Donation requested $10. (surplus is donated to the Congregation).
Reservations by Wednesday at 11am to Barbara at 561-627-6105 or uniuni2@att.net

Second Saturday Book Group, March 10

1stUUPB’s Second Saturday Book Group --
Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy Search for Truth and Meaning

On Saturday, March 10, from 10:00-12:15 or so, 1stUUPB’s Second Saturday Book Group will meet in the Sanctuary to discuss Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice, written over 200 years ago and still loved and respected. Newcomers are always welcome.

In a timing coincidence, last Sunday Rev Dan preached about our Fourth UU Principle: A free and responsible search for truth and meaning.  Be sure to read carefully P&P’s opening sentence:  "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”  This is one of the most famous openings in literature.  It immediately establishes the main subject — marriage — and the tone — social satire.  We could discuss this treasure for days, but we’ll focus on why it still resonates today. 

Our theme this year is “Family — the Ties that Bind, and Sometimes Unravel.”  We’ll see how Pride and Prejudice's Bennett family of the landed gentry class in England in the late 1700s compares with families we’ve already met this year in Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, Moonglow by Michael Chabon, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, and The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri.  

On April 14 our closing discussion of the season will be on Adam Haslett's  Imagine Me Gone, in which we’ll find that mental illness can be a family affair.  Check it out!  

NewsTalk Topics for March 4th

- are Pell Grants for education of prisoners a good idea?

- does your fitness app provide intelligence to ISIS?

- has the NRA met its match in high school students?

- will Manafort and Gates lead Mueller to Trump?

- what will the dying days of this year's Florida legislature bring?