May 5th Sermon "The Media or the Message?" - Rev. J Sylvan

02 May 2024
May 5th Sermon "The Media or the Message?" - Rev. J Sylvan

Welcome!

Please join us for our Sunday Service, May 5th at 9 am & 11 am
Rev. J Sylvan
Sermon: "The Media or the Message?"
Intergenerational Service
 
Share the Plate: HEAL Utah is the Share the Plate reciptient for this Sunday. HEAL Utah has been at the forefront of environmental advocacy for clean air, energy and climate policy. We will welcome Carmen ValDez, a staff member for HEAL Utah, who will present information about the work of HEAL Utah during Sunday services.
 
Remember to bring food pantry items for Crossroads Urban Center (bins will be in Eliot Hall during coffee hour).  Click Here for their request list
 
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: "Bear Dance" by Béla Bartók (Hungarian, 1881-1945) - 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 & Chalice Lighting – Amanda Esko
  • Opening Hymn: #402, "From You I Receive" – words and music by Joseph Segal (American, b. 1946) and Nathan Segal (American, 1949-2019)
  • Reading: "Showing Off Our Cool Stuff to Other Dimensions" by Ryan George – read by Amanda Esko & Rev. J Sylvan
  • Music Response: Prelude in C minor, BWV 847 [excerpt] by Johann Sebastian Bach (German, 1685-1750) - David Owens, piano
  • Song of Gratitude: #1010, "We Give Thanks" – words & music by Wendy Luella Perkins (Canadian, b. 1966); led by Amanda Esko
  • Share the Plate:  Carmen ValDez from HEAL Utah
  • 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: "The Media or the Message?" - Rev. J Sylvan
  • Ritual: Our Interconnected Web
  • Closing Hymn: #1008, "When Our Heart Is in a Holy Place" – words and music by Joyce Poley (Canadian, b. 1941)
  • Benediction – Rev. J Sylvan
  • Postlude: "Fantasia in D Major" by Georg Philipp Telemann (German, 1681-1767) - David Owens, piano