Welcome
Please join us for our Sunday Service, September 24th at 9am and 11am
Rev. J Sylvan
Sermon: "The Art of the Covenant
Choir Sunday
Services will be live-streamed on zoom (zoom link is on the front page of the website).
Coffee Hour: In person in Eliot Hall and virtual on zoom following each service.
Masks optional
Order of Service
- Choral Prelude: "Welcome, Welcome!" - words and music by Clif Hardin (American, b. 1955); performed by the Chancel Choir
- Introit: #188, "Come, Come, Whoever You Are" - words adapted from Rumi (1207-1273); music by Rev. Lynn Ungar (American, b. 1963)
- Welcome & Announcements - Rev. J Sylvan
- Chalice Lighting - Rev. J Sylvan
- Hymn: #318, "We Would Be One" - music by Jean Sibelius (Finnish, 1865-1957); words by Samuel Anthony Wright (American, 1919-2016)
- Meditation - Rev. J Sylvan
- Choral Response: "Go Lifted Up" - words and music by Mortimer B. Barron (American, b. 1939); choral arrangement and violin obligato by David Owens; performed by the Chancel Choir, with guest violinist Sue Buzzard
- 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 Art of the Covenant" - Rev. J Sylvan
- Choral Anthem: "Covenant" from Beloved King: A Queer Bible Musical - words and music by Rev J Sylvan; performed by the Chancel Choir, with vocal soloists Nikki Blackburn Fuller and Sue Buzzard
- Benediction & Extinguish Chalice - Rev. J Sylvan
- Choral Postlude: "Turn the World Around" - words and music by Harry Belafonte (American, 1927-2023) and Robert Freedman (American, 1934-2018) performed by the Chancel Choir