NewsTalk Topics for Jan 14

- should 1stUUPB develop a plan for dealing with a shooting intruder?  a gun in the pulpit? an armed guard?  several designated members who are armed and spread throughout the sanctuary?  metal detectors at the doors?

- should the President be sharing CIA intelligence with Putin and Russia?

- are you ready to have a microchip embedded in your body to store personal information, credit cards, medical records, etc.

- should drones be regulated?  if so, what regulations would you suggest?

- should the President threaten other nations with the loss of U.S. aid if they don't vote with us in the United Nations Security Council or General Assembly?

Order of Service, January 7, 2018

Welcome/Announcements

Lighting the Chalice Flame: Elizabeth Shine (in unison) 
Fire consumes, and casts a bright light. May our chalice flame consume our regrets for the past, our fears about our future, and our worries about today. May it light for us a path of joy and peace.

Prelude:  Blood Brothers by Ingres Michaelson

Opening Words: Principle 1- Chris Juhl
The inherent worth and dignity of every person

Meditation and Candle Lighting

Principle 2- Pat Knight
Justice, equity and compassion in human relations

Principle 3 – Amy Stauber
Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations

*Hymn #203: All Creatures of the Earth and Sky

Offertory: Improv on a well-known hymn by Bruce Holden

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.

Principle 4 - Jesse Walters 
A free and responsible search for truth and meaning

Principle 5 - Nickie Albert
The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large

*Hymn #128:  For All That Is Our Life

Principle 6 - Barbara Hatzfeld
The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all

Principle 7 - David Traupman
Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part

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:  For Good from Wicked
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: Social Hour 11:30am in Ministers Hall, Council meeting at noon in the Channing Room. UU Pagans coffee 1pm in Ministers Hall
Monday-Friday: Administration Office hours 9:30am-12:30pm
Tuesday: Board of Trustees meeting 6:30pm in the Channing Room
Thursday Catered Dinner at 6pm in Minsters Hall.  Rev. Dan Lambert presents “Important Spiritual Thinkers of History- Jesus” at 7pm in Ministers Hall.
Friday: Art Studio 6pm in the Channing Room.  Buddhist Rental- Today to Next Friday.
Saturday: MLK Parade in Riviera Beach.
Sunday:  News Talk at 9:15am in Ministers Hall.

Gratitude
Thank you to all who contribute to our service and fellowship hour each week. This week:
• Guest speakers: Nickie Albert and friends
• Music coordinator: Peilin Ko
• Cover art: Larry Stauber
• Fellowship Hour hospitality: Shirley Bloomquist

Announcements
• Next Sunday: “Our First Principle”, Rev. Dan Lambert 
• 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.

Teaching Thursday: Dinner and Program

Dinner at 6pm -- Ministers Hall
will be catered by Golden Star restaurant. The menu is: 
Moo Goo Gai Pan
Buddha's Delight
Sweet & Sour Pork
Fried Rice
White Rice
Birthday Cake (for Barbara Hatzfeld and other January birthdays)
Ice Cream
Donation requested is $15 (food prices have increased). Surplus will be donated to the Congregation.
B Y O B
Reservations are requested by Wednesday Jan 10 at 11am to Barbara at uniuni2@att.net or 561-627-6105.

2017 at 1stUUPB

You can see a three-part graphic review of our Congregation in 2017 at the 1stUUPB Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/1stUUPB.
See Sundays at 1stUUPB (54 photos), Our Music Program 2017 (75 photos) and A Look Back at the Year in Photos (237 photos).
You're welcome to "like", "share" and "comment" on any post at our Facebook page.

NewsTalk Topics for Jan 7

- what regulations should cover drones?

- should government agencies have prohibited words and phrases?

- the UN Security Council denounces Trump on moving U.S. embassy in Israel

- tax reform or tax hikes?

- should Trump be providing Putin with CIA intelligence?

- should taxpayers be funding payment of harassment claims against congressmen?

- should 1stUUPB develop a plan for dealing with an armed intruder?  -- a gun in the pulpit? an armed guard? several designated members who are armed and spread throughout the sanctuary?  metal detectors at the doors?

Order of Service, December 31, 2017

Welcome/Announcements

Prelude: Only Time by Enya

Opening Words

Lighting the Chalice Flame (in unison): (#453) May the light we now kindle inspire us to use 

our powers to heal and not to harm, to help and not to hinder, to bless and not to curse, To serve you, Spirit of Freedom. (Passover Haggadah)

*Hymn #346 Come, Sing a Song with Me

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.

Quiet Time/Meditation

Responsive Reading #558: For Everything A Season

Offertory: Time after Time by Cyndi Lauper 

Sermon: "Chronos and Religion"  Chris Juhl

*Hymn #34 Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire

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: Time is On My Side by The Rolling Stones

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: New Year's Eve Potluck 12:00 Noon in Ministers Hall,

Monday: Administration Office closed.
Tuesday-Friday: Administration Office hours  9:30am-12:30pm

Tuesday: Men's Group at La Bamba 6:30pm
Friday: First Friday Film and Pot Luck dinner 6pm  in Ministers Hall.

Saturday: Second Saturday Book Group 10am in the Sanctuary to discuss Homegoing by Yaa
Gyasi.

Sunday: News Talk will resume at 9:15am in Ministers Hall.

Gratitude

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

·       Guest Speaker: Chris Juhl

·       Music coordinator: Peilin Ko

·       Ushers:

·       Cover art: Larry Stauber

·       Fellowship hour hospitality: All who brought food

And to our permanent staff:

·       Borboro Hatzfeld, office administrator

·       Willie Nelson, sexton.

Book Group Jan 6, 10:30am

Next Book Group Discussion: Saturday, January 6, 10:30, in the Sanctuary

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 

Published in June 2016

To start the year off in keeping with our times, our 1stUUPB Second Saturday Book Group will be meeting in January on the first Saturday— January 6.  We’ll gather in the Sanctuary at 10:30 to discuss Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi,  a new voice in the literary world.   

By progressing through 300 years of Ghanaian and American history, Gyasi shows consequences of the slave trade by following seven generations of a single family. Every portrait reads like a short story unto itself.

Gyasi, born in Ghana and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, got the idea for this story when she visited Ghana during college. After her family moved to the United States when she was an infant, she had never taken a trip back. Gyasi was struck when she visited the Cape Coast Castle by the idea of African women living in the top levels of the castle as the wives of colonists while others were kept in the dungeon to be sold as slaves. Gyasi used historical accounts written by Africans and African-Americans to center each chapter of the book around important historical moments.

While today we most often think of slavery in the context of its historical and contemporary impact on the United States, slavery began to exist before written history in many cultures, and, according to some, there are still more slaves today than at any previous point in history.

Members, friends, and community people are welcome to these sessions, whether you’ve read the books or not!  We “Read so as to know the world.”   For further information, you may contact Dorie Maxwell at doriemaxwell@mac.com or call her at 561-301-4204.