Order of Service for May 7, 2017

Introduction and Hymn #188 Come, Come Whoever You Are

Prelude: What a Wonderful World
               Sung by Vangie Gruen

Welcome, Announcements

Opening Words

Lighting the Chalice Flame (in unison):

Let the lighting of this flame rekindle in us the inner light of love, of peace, of joy, of hope. And as one flame lights another, we pledge ourselves to be bearers of the light wherever we are.

*Hymn: # 113 Where Is Our Holy Church?

Quiet Time/Meditation/ Prayer  

Reading: from The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to my Children and Yours, by Marian Wright Edelman

Offertory: Intermezzo, by Sydney                      George

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.

Reading: From the Study Guide for the 2016-2020 Congregational Study Action Issue The Corruption of Our Democracy

Sermon: Who Will Make Democracy Work?

                              Kindra Muntz

Hymn #187 It Sounds Along the Ages

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:  Lift Every Voice and Sing, Sung by Lynn Pernezny

Gratitude & Applause

* Please stand in body or spirit

Hearing devices, and envelopes for cash pledges are available on the hymnal cart or ask
an usher.

This Week

Today: Nursery is open at 10:15am.  Social Hour 11:30am in Ministers Hall.

Tuesday: SGM meeting (MF) 3pm

Sunday:  News Talk 9:15am in Ministers Hall  

Gratitude

Thank you to all who contribute to our service and fellowship hour each week. This week:

·        Guest speaker: Kindra Muntz

·        Service leader: Larry Stauber

·        Music  coordinator: Peilin Ko

·        Chalice lighter: Kindra Muntz

·        Ushers: Robin Phillips & Amy Stauber

·        Cover art: Larry Stauber 

          Fellowship hour hospitality:  Gail Burwell

          And to our permanent staff:

·        Barbara Hatzfeld, office administrator

·        Willie Nelson, sexton.

Announcements

·        Next Sunday: “The Divine Feminine” by Tia Jolie Phillips.

·        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.

Join Natalie Lederer for her tour May 12, 2017 at 10:30am at the Norton Museum of Art to view works of American Art and the “Spotlight” show “Pen to Paper”. Call Natalie for reservations at 561-790-5981.  (PS Bring your smart phones).

Justice Saturday, May 6, UUCFL

The UU Florida SE Cluster & Broward County Move to Amend

present

JUSTICE SATURDAY 2017

How can we reclaim our democracy?

• From Citizens United & campaign finance law to corporate controlled mass media, the U.S. electoral system discourages citizen participation and empowers moneyed interests.

• How the Indivisible Movement strengthens us.

• Updates on Black Lives Matter and Move to Amend.

Speakers:

Timothy Canova, Chair, Progress for All

*Kindra Muntz, President, Unitarian Universalist Justice Florida

Betty Brantly, Black Lives Matter Alliance Broward

Saturday, May 6, 2017    9am to 3:45pm

Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft. Lauderdale

3970 NW 21 Avenue, Oakland Park, FL 33309  www.uucfl.org

$20 per person in advance      

$25 at the door; cash, credit card or check.

Registration includes Lunch and Continental Breakfast.

To pay by PayPal go to: uuflorida.org/justice/

Registration deadline Wednesday, May 3.

*Kindra will be in the 1stUUPB pulpit on May 7, 10:30am

Tour Norton With Natalie Lederer May 12

Join Natalie Lederer (call 790-5981) for her tour on May 12th, 2017 at 10:30am at the Norton Museum of Art to view works of American Art and the "spotlight" show "Pen to Paper".

Did you ever consider a handwritten letter an original work of art? It is a creative mix of choices: utensils, paper and an individual penmanship style using line and form.

Hundreds of thousands of handwritten letters by American
artists were collected by the Smithsonian Museum of
American Art. These manuscripts are considered to be an
important aspect of art history. Curator Mary Savig was
impressed and inspired to edit them for her book Pen to
Paper. The letters cover issues of gender, race and sexuality.

The exhibit consists of photographs from her book with a
sampling of artists' handwritten letters to familyIfriends and business associates.

The tour includes comparisons to art in the permanent collection.

P.S. - Bring your smart phones. 

Pulpit Preview, May 2017

NewsTalk Topics for May 7 -- volunteers needed

NOTICE:  Allen Maxwell will be gone until mid-October, so volunteer moderators for NewsTalk are needed for the last  two Sundays in May, all four weeks in June, the last two weeks in August, all four Sundays in September, and the first four Sundays in October.  Please sign up on the sheet in Ministers Hall.

Topics for May 7

- an early recap of the work product of the Florida legislature

- what is in the latest Continuing Resolution from the Congress?

- is Obamacare still on life-support?

- staffing the Trump Administration --

lots of open positions, no nominees

- are the congressional committees getting anywhere on "the Russian connection"?

Order of Service for April 30

At the sound of the chime, please join in singing Hymn #188 Come, Come, Whoever You Are

Welcome & Announcements

Prelude: Singing Bowls Meditation

Opening Words

Lighting the Chalice Flame (in unison):

We light this chalice to affirm that new light is ever waiting to break through to enlighten our ways: That new truth is ever waiting to break through to warm our hearts. May we be open to this light, and to the rich possibilities that it brings us.

*Hymn: # 123 Spirit of Life

Candles of Joy and Sorrow and Meditation  

Reading

Offertory: Guitar Solo by Ryan Monaghan

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.

For Good performed by Lynn Pernezny

Goodbye Claudia Jimenez

Looking Up by Michael Petruciani performed by Steve LaPointe

Farewell Rev CJ McGregor

What I Did For Love performed by Rebecca Peets

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

Presentation to Claudia Jimenez

Postlude:  Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head  by Burt Bacharach

Gratitude & Applause

* Please stand in body or spirit

Hearing devices, and envelopes for cash pledges are available on the hymnal cart or ask
an usher.

This Week

Today: Nursery is open at 10:15am.  Harriette Glasner Scholarship lunch 11:30am in Ministers Hall.

Saturday:  Spring Justice Meeting at UCC Ft. Lauderdale 8 am -5 pm.

Sunday:  News Talk 9:15am in Ministers Hall  

Gratitude

Thank you to all who contribute to our service and fellowship hour each week. This week:

·        Chalice Lighter:  Claudia Jimenez

·        Ushers: Vangie Gruen & Nickie Albert

·        Cover Art: Larry Stauber 

           Fellowship Hour Hospitality:  Volunteers

2017 Harriette Glasner Scholarship Recipients: Vandi Allen, Jaanel Berrick, Derquan James, Ako Johnson,  Emma Lehmannn,  Ameein Martin-Preston, Eddie Newton, Grayson Phillips, Shirley Pierre, Brianna Washington.

Announcements

·        Next Sunday: “Who will make Democracy work?” by Kindra Muntz.

·        Rev. CJ McGregor Office Hours: by appointment (Please call 561-627-6106 ahead) Tuesday- Thursday 9:30am-2pm.

·        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.

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