“Be the Change”
October 6, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
October 6, 2024, at 10:00 a.m.
Prelude For the Beauty of the Earth -- arr. Jason Tonioli
Welcome and Announcements Lisa deMauro, Board Member of the Week
Chalice Lighting Marietta Api
Opening Words Susan Greenberg
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that
ever has.” - Margaret Mead 1901-1978, Anthropologist
Gathering Song This Land of Bursting Sunrise (#82)
Candles of Joy and Concern Marietta Api
A time for a brief sharing of personal joys and concerns.
Offertory While You Were Sleeping by Paul Gross
If you are online and wish to give to FUSW, after the service please go to https://www.fusw.org/giving.html. A link will also be placed in the chat at the end of the service.
Story for All Ages Coffee Cups at FUSW – Susan Greenberg
Presentations “Being the Change”
Mary Pederson – Organic Gardening
Denise Woodin – Minimizing Contributions to Landfills
Kevin Weber – Composting – Q&A
Mike Zamm – Training a Generation of Environmental Activists
Closing Song Blue Boat Home (#1064)
Personal Reflections Marietta Api
A time for brief sharing about how today’s worship has made a difference for you.
Closing Words Susan Greenberg
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” - Edward Everett Hale 1809-1922, Unitarian Minister
Chalice Extinguishing Marietta Api
The flame is extinguished,
but not our hope for the future,
our courage in the face of crisis,
or the love we share in all the world. - Robin F Gray
Welcome and Announcements Lisa deMauro, Board Member of the Week
Chalice Lighting Marietta Api
Opening Words Susan Greenberg
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that
ever has.” - Margaret Mead 1901-1978, Anthropologist
Gathering Song This Land of Bursting Sunrise (#82)
Candles of Joy and Concern Marietta Api
A time for a brief sharing of personal joys and concerns.
Offertory While You Were Sleeping by Paul Gross
If you are online and wish to give to FUSW, after the service please go to https://www.fusw.org/giving.html. A link will also be placed in the chat at the end of the service.
Story for All Ages Coffee Cups at FUSW – Susan Greenberg
Presentations “Being the Change”
Mary Pederson – Organic Gardening
Denise Woodin – Minimizing Contributions to Landfills
Kevin Weber – Composting – Q&A
Mike Zamm – Training a Generation of Environmental Activists
Closing Song Blue Boat Home (#1064)
Personal Reflections Marietta Api
A time for brief sharing about how today’s worship has made a difference for you.
Closing Words Susan Greenberg
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do something that I can do.” - Edward Everett Hale 1809-1922, Unitarian Minister
Chalice Extinguishing Marietta Api
The flame is extinguished,
but not our hope for the future,
our courage in the face of crisis,
or the love we share in all the world. - Robin F Gray
Thank you to everyone who helped with today’s service!
Susan Greenberg, Mary Pederson, Kevin Weber, Denise Woodin, Mike Zamm
Music: Diane Guernsey
Zoom Host: Matthew Clowney
Worship Associate: Marietta Api
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We respectfully acknowledge that the Rivertowns stand on the unceded territory of the Munsee, Lenape, and Wappinger peoples.
Our Zoom session will stay open for coffee hour after service until 12:00pm.
Click here to join our online worship service via Zoom,
or call 646-558-8656, Meeting ID: 921 3956 4302, Passcode: 266397
Susan Greenberg, Mary Pederson, Kevin Weber, Denise Woodin, Mike Zamm
Music: Diane Guernsey
Zoom Host: Matthew Clowney
Worship Associate: Marietta Api
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
We respectfully acknowledge that the Rivertowns stand on the unceded territory of the Munsee, Lenape, and Wappinger peoples.
Our Zoom session will stay open for coffee hour after service until 12:00pm.
Click here to join our online worship service via Zoom,
or call 646-558-8656, Meeting ID: 921 3956 4302, Passcode: 266397
This Land of Bursting Sunrise (#82)
This land of bursting sunrise, all lavender and blue,
its cloud-strewn, light-swept day skies flow, and every day renew.
To east the glow of dawning, to west the blaze of night,
‘round all the long horizon’s rim, the everlasting light!
This land of open vistas, life rooted deep and free,
thy canyoned plains, thy mountains vast, plumb earth’s immensity.
Here in life’s fragile balance, the sun and stars above,
find hand in hand, and heart to heart, the everlasting love.
Blue Boat Home (#1064)
Though below me, I feel no motion standing on these mountains and plains.
Far away from the rolling ocean still my dry land heart can say:
I’ve been sailing all my life now, never harbor or port have I known.
The wide universe is the ocean I travel and the earth is my blue boat home.
Sun my sail and moon my rudder as I ply the starry sea,
leaning over the edge in wonder, casting questions into the deep.
Drifting here with my ship’s companions, all we kindred pilgrim souls,
making our way by the lights of the heavens in our beautiful blue boat home.
I give thanks to the waves up holding me, hail the great winds urging me on,
greet the infinite sea before me, sing the sky my sailor’s song:
I was born up on the fathoms, never harbor or port have I known.
The wide universe is the ocean I travel, and the earth is my blue boat home.
This land of bursting sunrise, all lavender and blue,
its cloud-strewn, light-swept day skies flow, and every day renew.
To east the glow of dawning, to west the blaze of night,
‘round all the long horizon’s rim, the everlasting light!
This land of open vistas, life rooted deep and free,
thy canyoned plains, thy mountains vast, plumb earth’s immensity.
Here in life’s fragile balance, the sun and stars above,
find hand in hand, and heart to heart, the everlasting love.
Blue Boat Home (#1064)
Though below me, I feel no motion standing on these mountains and plains.
Far away from the rolling ocean still my dry land heart can say:
I’ve been sailing all my life now, never harbor or port have I known.
The wide universe is the ocean I travel and the earth is my blue boat home.
Sun my sail and moon my rudder as I ply the starry sea,
leaning over the edge in wonder, casting questions into the deep.
Drifting here with my ship’s companions, all we kindred pilgrim souls,
making our way by the lights of the heavens in our beautiful blue boat home.
I give thanks to the waves up holding me, hail the great winds urging me on,
greet the infinite sea before me, sing the sky my sailor’s song:
I was born up on the fathoms, never harbor or port have I known.
The wide universe is the ocean I travel, and the earth is my blue boat home.
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