Welcome!
Please join us for our Sunday Service, April 14th at 9 am & 11 am
Amanda Esko, Director of Religious Education
Sermon: "The Stories We're Built On"
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
Special thanks to our wonderful Bell Ensemble for adding their musical talent to the service today!
- Bell Ensemble Prelude: "Morning Has Come" – traditional round; presented by the Bell Ensemble at First Church
- 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 – Lissa Lander
- Chalice Lighting: Lissa Lander
- Opening Hymn: #123, "Spirit of Life" by Carolyn McDade (American, b. 1935)
- Lay Minister: Lissa Lander
- Interlude: "Sakura" – Japanese folk song; presented by the Bell Ensemble at First Church; David Owens, percussion
- Reading: “The Builders” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Amanda Esko
- Response: "Waltz" by Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian, 1906-1975) – David Owens, piano
- Song of Gratitude: #1010, "We Give Thanks" – words & music by Wendy Luella Perkins (Canadian, b. 1966); led by Amanda Esko
- 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 Stories We’re Built On” – Amanda Esko
- Closing Hymn: #131, "Love Will Guide Us" – words by Sally Rogers (American, b. 1954); traditional melody, arr. by Betty A. Wylder (American, 1923-1994)
- Benediction – Amanda Esko
- Postlude: "Siyahamba" – 20th-century South African song – presented by the Bell Ensemble at First Church; David Owens, Kurzweil