This Wednesday: To Build an Ark

This Wednesday: To Build an Ark
Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains
November 3, 2024
Rev. Kevin Tarsa
Gail Johnson Vaughan, Worship Associate

This Sunday marks the beginning of a month exploring living love through the practice of repair.  We live in a time where there is so much to repair,  

How do we even begin? Do we even have the energy to begin? And things are still breaking!  
What needs repair or healing?  
How does the lens through which we see what’s broken impact our hope or dismay
Do I have a role to play in repairing what I see as broken?
Can I help put the pieces back together, or am I one of the pieces?  
Will what emerges be better because it was broken?  

Come, let’s together begin this important exploration. 

Rev Kevin Tarsa, Worship Associate Gail Johnson Vaughan, with the UUCM Choir 

Song for Gathering  We Will Rise by Lea Morris, sung by UUCM Choir, Toby Thomas-Rose, director 

Land Acknowledgement  Tracy Pepper 

Lighting of the Chalice  Your Broken Heart… adapted from Rev. Angela Herrera read by Elizabeth Rose 

Singing the Children on Their Way

Greeting  Rev. Kevin Tarsa 

Welcome  Gail Johnson Vaughan 

Litany of Liminality  Rev. Kevin Tarsa 

Joys & Sorrows – stones and petals  Rev. Kevin Tarsa 

Prayer & Meditation  Lay it Down by Joan Javier-Duval read by Rev. Kevin Tarsa  

Song  Loosen, Loosen by Aly Halpert  

Sermon/Message  This Wednesday: To Build an Ark  Rev. Kevin Tarsa & Gail Johnson Vaughan 

Reading  Practice Repair [adapted] written by Rev. Dave McFarland read by Tracy Pepper 

Offering  Gail Johnson Vaughan with Karen Hague, Citizens for Choice Board Member 

Offertory 

Dedication  Gail Johnson Vaughan

Thank you & Announcements 

Closing Song /Closing The Tide is Rising by Rabbi Shoshana Meira Friedman and Yotam Schachter

Community Benediction / Extinguishing of the Chalice  
                Carry the flame of peace and love until we meet again.   

Music for Going Forth