Finding Our Center through a Season of Renewal – January 15, 2023

Finding Our Center through a Season of Renewal
Unitarian Universalist Community of the Mountains
January 15, 2023
UUCM Leaders and Rev. Kevin

In a ritual-graced service, we’ll mark the entrance to the next four and a half Sabbatical Renewal months with mutual blessings and well-wishing, thoughtful invitations, and a welcome to UUCM’s Sabbatical Minister.   

Greeting Rev. Kevin Tarsa  

Land Acknowledgement 

Song for Gathering Come and Go With Me #1018, African American Spiritual 

Welcome Carol Nimick, Worship Associate 

Introducing Rev. Janet Onnie, UUCM’s Sabbatical Minister Gail Johnson Vaughan 

Lighting of the Chalice/Opening Words Weaving by Lynn Ungar, read by Pam Kisor, UUCM President and René Wiley, UUCM Vice-president 

Wisdom for All Ages What’s Your Word for the Year? Rev. Kevin and all 

Singing the Children on Their Way 

Joys & Sorrows 

Music Toby Thomas-Rose, piano 

Prayer & Meditation Rev. Janet Onnie, UUCM Sabbatical Minister 

Song My Life Flows On (How Can I Keep from Singing) #108, words by Anna Bartlett Warner, Doris Plenn, and Pete Seger, music by Robert Lowry 

Sermon Finding Our Center through a Season of Renewal Rev. Kevin Tarsa 

Rituals of Blessing 

  • Of Rev. Kevin  
  • Of Rev. Janet Onnie, UUCM Sabbatical Minister  
  • Of the Congregation  

Offering Carol Nimick 

Offertory

Dedication Carol Nimick  

Thank you 

Announcements 

Closing Song Woyaya #1020 

Closing Words The Song of the Potter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, read by Rev. Janet Onnie, UUCM Sabbatical Minister 

Extinguishing of the Chalice Rev. Kevin Tarsa 

Community Benediction Pam Kisor, UUCM President