Welcome!
Please join us for our Sunday Service, April 7th at 9 am & 11 am
Rev. J Sylvan
Sermon: "We Don’t Own Our Children"
Intergenerational Service, Jr. Singers
Child Dedication
Share the Plate: Great Salt Lake Collabrative
Join us in welcoming Heather May. Heather directs the Great Salt Lake Collaborative, a group of 19 news, education and civic organizations that includes KSL, The Salt Lake Tribune, Fox13, Deseret News and many more. This groups has come together to better inform and engage Utahns about the crisis facing the Great Salt Lake — and what can be done to make a difference before it is too late. Heather brings 26 years of journalism experience to this role, having covered food, health, education, and politics for multiple Utah news outlets. She has kayaked, birded and biked at the Great Salt Lake, and enjoys its Lake Effect snow when she skis in Big and Little Cottonwood canyons.
Services will be live-streamed on Zoom (the zoom link is on the front page of the website)
Coffee Hour: In person in Eliot Hall following the services
Masks optional
Order of Service
- Prelude: “Baby Mine” music by Frank Churchill (American 1901-1942), words by Ned Washington (American 1901-1976) – David Owens, piano
- Introit: #188, "Come, Come, Whoever You Are" – words adapted from Rumi (1207-1273); music by Rev. Lynn Ungar (American, b. 1963); led by David Owens
- Welcome & Announcements – Amanda Esko
- Chalice Lighting – Amanda Esko
- Opening Hymn: #118, "This Little Light of Mine" – words & music: African American spiritual (c. 1750-1875) – Congregation and Junior Singers
- Child Dedication – Amanda Esko
- "I Am Your Child" – words by Marty Panzer (American, b. 1945); music by Barry Manilow (American, b. 1943); presented by the Junior Singers, with Nikki Blackburn Fuller conducting
- Song of Gratitude: #1010, "We Give Thanks" – words & music by Wendy Luella Perkins (Canadian, b. 1966); led by Amanda Esko
- Share the Plate: Heather May, Director of the Great Salt Lake Collaborative
- Offertory – Amanda Esko
- Doxology
- From all that dwell below the skies
- Let hymns of faith and hope arise
- May peace, good will on earth be sung
- Through every land by every tongue
- Amen
- Sermon: "We Don’t Own Our Children" – Rev. J Sylvan
- Ritual: Self-Portrait
- Closing Hymn: #346, "Come, Sing a Song with Me" (first 2 verses) by Carolyn McDade (American, b. 1935) – Congregation and Junior Singers
- Benediction – Rev. J Sylvan
- Postlude: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" – words by Yip Harburg (American, 1896-1981); music by Harold Arlen (American, 1905-1986); arr. by David Owens; performed by Amanda Esko & David Owens