Photo Credit: Kala Wilkins
"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables"
Sunday, May 29, 2022, 10:00 a.m., via Zoom ONLY
Sunday, May 29, 2022, 10:00 a.m., via Zoom ONLY
Prelude Burying Home by Bradley Sowash
Welcome and Announcements Susan Greenberg, Board Member of the Week
Chalice Lighting and Opening Words Rev. Jane Thickstun
*Hymn “I Cannot Think of Them as Dead” (#96)
Meditation
*Candles of Joy and Concern Lenore Lupie
This is a time for a brief sharing of personal joys and concerns.
Silent Candles and Musical Meditation
Offering The Resting-Place on the Hill (from Our Town) by Aaron Copland
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.
Reading from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Read by Lenore Lupie
Special Music Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, from Les Misérables,
Composer: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyricist: Herbert Kretzmer
sung by Bruce Travers, accompanied by Hal Dixler
Sermon “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” – Rev. Jane Thickstun
*Hymn “This Is My Song” (#159)
*Personal Reflections Lenore Lupie
This is a time for sharing about the ways in which today’s worship has made a difference for you.
Closing Words and Rev. Jane Thickstun
Chalice Extinguishing
*First, we will hear from the people joining us on Zoom via video, and then we will hear from the people on audio only. This will be explained in greater detail during the service.
Welcome and Announcements Susan Greenberg, Board Member of the Week
Chalice Lighting and Opening Words Rev. Jane Thickstun
*Hymn “I Cannot Think of Them as Dead” (#96)
Meditation
*Candles of Joy and Concern Lenore Lupie
This is a time for a brief sharing of personal joys and concerns.
Silent Candles and Musical Meditation
Offering The Resting-Place on the Hill (from Our Town) by Aaron Copland
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.
Reading from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Read by Lenore Lupie
Special Music Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, from Les Misérables,
Composer: Claude-Michel Schönberg, Lyricist: Herbert Kretzmer
sung by Bruce Travers, accompanied by Hal Dixler
Sermon “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” – Rev. Jane Thickstun
*Hymn “This Is My Song” (#159)
*Personal Reflections Lenore Lupie
This is a time for sharing about the ways in which today’s worship has made a difference for you.
Closing Words and Rev. Jane Thickstun
Chalice Extinguishing
*First, we will hear from the people joining us on Zoom via video, and then we will hear from the people on audio only. This will be explained in greater detail during the service.
Thank you to everyone who helped with today’s service!
Rev. Jane Thickstun
Music: Diane Guernsey
Remote Tech: Craig Butler, Matthew Clowney
Worship Associate: Lenore Lupie
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Rev. Jane Thickstun has served congregations in Ithaca and Croton-on-Hudson, NY, Atlanta, GA, Michigan, and New Hampshire.
Rev. Jane grew up in Potsdam, NY, and has degrees in Linguistics and Philosophy, both from Georgetown University, and prepared for the UU ministry at Meadville/Lombard Theological School.
We respectfully acknowledge that our communities live on the unceded territory of the Munsee, Lenape and Wappinger peoples.
Please refrain from using the “to: Everyone” chat feature during our virtual worship, just as you would not talk aloud during an in-person worship. We invite you to share during our Personal Reflections time or at coffee hour afterward. You may virtually "whisper" to an individual by selecting their name in the chat and typing to them directly.
Our Zoom session will stay open for after service conversation until 12:00pm
To join our Sunday online worship service,
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or call 646-558-8656 and enter Meeting ID 921 3956 4302, Password 266397.
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I Cannot Think of Them as Dead (#96)
I cannot think of them as dead who walk with me no more;
along the path of life I tread they are but gone before,
they are but gone before.
And still their silent ministry within my heart has place
as when on earth they walked with me and met me face to face,
and met me face to face.
Their lives are made forever mine; what they to me have been
has left henceforth its seal and sign engraven deep within,
engraven deep within.
Mine are they by an ownership nor time nor death can free;
for God has given to love to keep its own eternally,
its own eternally.
This Is My Song (#159)
This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
but other hearts in other lands are beating
with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
a song of peace for their land and for mine.
I cannot think of them as dead who walk with me no more;
along the path of life I tread they are but gone before,
they are but gone before.
And still their silent ministry within my heart has place
as when on earth they walked with me and met me face to face,
and met me face to face.
Their lives are made forever mine; what they to me have been
has left henceforth its seal and sign engraven deep within,
engraven deep within.
Mine are they by an ownership nor time nor death can free;
for God has given to love to keep its own eternally,
its own eternally.
This Is My Song (#159)
This is my song, O God of all the nations,
a song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine;
but other hearts in other lands are beating
with hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.
My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
and skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, thou God of all the nations,
a song of peace for their land and for mine.
