Welcome!
Please join us for our Sunday Service, April 21st at 9 am & 11 am
Rev. J Sylvan
Sermon: "The End of the World"
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
- Call to Service: Ringing of the Steeple Bell
- Prelude: "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" by Bob Dylan (American, b. 1941) – performed by Jim Thornburg, guitar/vocal
- 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 – Rev. J Sylvan
- Chalice Lighting – Ruen-chuan Ma
- Opening Hymn: #137, "We Utter Our Cry" – words by Fred Kaan (Dutch, 1929-2009); music by Peter Cutts (English, 1937-2024)
- Lay Minister: Don Walton
- Interlude: "Extinction" by Rev. J Sylvan – performed by The Eschatologists: J Sylvan, ukulele/vocal; Sue Buzzard, mandolin/vocal; Jim Thornburg, guitar
- Meditation – Rev. J Sylvan
- Song of Gratitude: #1010, "We Give Thanks" – words & music by Wendy Luella Perkins (Canadian, b. 1966); led by Rev. J Sylvan
- Offertory – Rev. J Sylvan
- 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: "The End of the World" – Rev. J Sylvan
- Music Response: "Always the End" by Rev. J Sylvan – performed by The Eschatologists: J Sylvan, acoustic guitar/vocal; Sue Buzzard, violin/vocal; Jim Thornburg, cajon
- Benediction – Rev J Sylvan
- Postlude: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M. (1987) – performed by Jim Thornburg, guitar; Wylie Lander, bass; Iris Lander, drums; Vocal Ensemble: Lissa Lander, Rosie Lander, Nikki Blackburn, Connie Wilkerson, Katie Swade
- 11:00 Service Only: "Celebration of the Species" – Amy Brunvand, Nan Seymour, Joan Gregory, Todd Seymour, et al