October 11, 2020 online service
10:30 a.m.
To make sure you can enable your audio and video when the time comes, please make sure to enter the Zoom room with them turned off. That way you remain in control of whether they are on and off later in the service. Thanks!
Welcome and Announcements Rev. Amy Zucker
Morgenstern
Kids, send photos of your stuffie in costume for UUCPA Halloween! Email photos of your stuffie dressed up in Halloween costume asap to possum@uucpa.org and watch for them in an upcoming Sunday worship service! Please include your name and the name of your stuffie. Stuffies only! No humans allowed in the photos.
The UUCPA Auction is coming--donations needed by October 31. As in previous years, this event will bring the congregation together for a party! Online, of course. Due to COVID-19, we are going to see how creative we can be! Please reimagine your donations for silent and live auction items. Meal deliveries . . . skills you can teach . . . a second home to which you could offer a vacation week . . . Click the link for lots more information.
Check out What’s Happening at UUCPA today:
Green Sanctuary Committee meeting – 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Discovering UUCPA – 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Women’s Group - Weekend Women – 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Harmonic Circle – 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Senior High Youth Group - SHYG* – 7:00 - 8:00 pm
(Please note there is no Sunday school this morning)
and this week:
Finance Committee Meeting – Monday, 10/12, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
White Folks Dismantling White Supremacy – Tuesday, 10/13, 7:15 pm - 8:45 pm
The Wild Diversity of Christianity – Wednesday, 10/14, 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Gardening @ UUCPA – Thursday, 10/15, 12:30 - 2:30 pm
Craft-and-check-in – Thursday, 10/15, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Saturday Meditation – 10/17, 9:00 - 10:30 am
Sacred Text Reading Group – Saturday, 10/17, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Forum - Insights from Your Career Sunday, 10/18, 9:00 - 10:15 am
Green Class Sunday School (gr. 2-3)* – 10/18, 9:30 - 10:15 am
Red Class Sunday School (preschool)* – 10/18, 9:30 - 10:15 am
Ecojustice Sunday School Class (gr. 6-8)* – 10/18, 10:15 - 11:45 am
Sunday Meditation – 10/18, 9:30 - 10:25 am
Sunday Service: Where Have You Gone, Joe DiMaggio?: When Heroes Fall – 10/18, 10:30 - 11:30 am
*advance registration is required for all children & youth programs
Prelude In De Col’ Moonlight (H.T. Burleigh) Veronika Agranov-Dafoe
Chalice Lighting Joy Harjo
Centering Words Alice Walker
Song Love Will Guide Us (No. 131 in the gray hymnal)
Love will guide us, peace has tried us,
hope inside us will lead the way
on the road from greed to giving.
Love will guide us through the hard night.
If you cannot sing like angels,
if you cannot speak before thousands,
you can give from deep within you.
You can change the world with your love.
Love will guide us, peace has tried us,
hope inside us will lead the way
on the road from greed to giving.
Love will guide us through the hard night.
Story for All Ages Jataka Tales: The Dog and the Elephant Rev. Dan Harper
Caring and Sharing
To have your joys and sorrows shared aloud, please e-mail them
to joyconcern@uucpa.org or post them in the Zoom chat box.
Song Oh, I Woke Up this Morning (No. 153, gray hymnal)
Oh, I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom.
Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom.
Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom,
Hallelu, Hallelu, Halleluia!
I was walking and talking with my mind stayed on freedom
Walking and talking with my mind stayed on freedom.
Walking and talking with my mind stayed on freedom,
Hallelu, Hallelu, Halleluia!
I was singing and praying with my mind stayed on freedom.
Singing and praying with my mind stayed on freedom.
Singing and praying with my mind stayed on freedom,
Hallelu, Hallelu, Halleluia!
Oh, I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom.
Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom.
Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom,
Hallelu, Hallelu, Halleluia!
Reflection Organizing for the Long Haul Rev. Ranwa Hammamy
Executive Director, Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California (UUJMCA)
Anthem We Shall Be Known We Thrive Virtual Choir
Jen Hayman, Director
Homily Rev. Dr. Susan Frederick-Gray
President, Unitarian Universalist Association
Offering Memory Mist (Florence Price) Veronika Agranov-Dafoe
You can give via credit card or Paypal
at www.uucpa.org/connection/donate
or send the text message “uucpaoffering” to the number 44321
For payments towards your annual pledge, use “uucpa20202021”
Thank you!
Reflection UUCPA, UUing the Vote Amy Morgenstern
featuring Anne Frahn, Linda Henigin, Kristi Iverson, and Elsa Schafer
Song We Are Building a New Way (No. 1017 in the teal hymnal)
We are building a new way.
We are building a new way.
We are building a new way,
feeling stronger ev’ry day,
We are building a new way.
We are working to be free.
We are working to be free.
We are working to be free,
hate and greed and jealousy.
We are working to be free.
We can feed our every need.
We can feed our ev’ry need.
We can feed our ev’ry need,
Start with love, that is the seed.
We can feed our every need.
Peace and freedom is our cry.
Peace and freedom is our cry.
Peace and freedom is our cry,
Without these this world will die.
Peace and freedom is our cry.
Chalice Extinguishing Amy Morgenstern
Postlude Interlude from Three Decembers Veronika Agranov-Dafoe
(Jake Heggie)
Benediction All
Please check that your audio and video are enabled.
Go out into the world in peace
Be of good courage
Hold fast to what is good
Return no one evil for evil
Strengthen the faint-hearted
Support the weak
Help the suffering
Rejoice in beauty
Speak love with word and deed
Honor all beings.
Everyone will be randomly assigned to a breakout room
so that we can converse after the service. To change rooms after a while,
return to the main room and you can enter a new breakout room from there.
If you wish to be able to choose your own breakout room after future services,
download the newest version of Zoom, which includes this feature.
Enjoy!
To learn more about what you can do, go to UU the Vote at UUCPA.
Remember, if you have written Vote Forward letters, they go into the mail on Friday, October 16 / Saturday, October 17.
Click here to sign up for today’s 1 p.m. phonebank with Rev. Ranwa and Elsa. Or click here to sign up to phonebank with Reclaim Our Vote, any day of the week, 12 hours/day.
If you hesitate to phonebank, here’s why it has proven so effective/ important. And here are three delightful introverts to explain how to get over any hesitation!
Click here to sign up for next Saturday’s Reclaim Our Vote Rally for Volunteers.
Kristi, Elsa, Anne, and Linda are also happy to get you connected:
Music Director: Bruce Olstad Pianist: Veronika Agranov-Dafoe
Guest presenters: UU the Vote produced and provided the reflection from the Rev. Ranwa Hammamy, the homily from the Rev. Dr. Susan Frederick-Gray, and the anthem from the We Thrive Virtual Choir (Jen Hayman, director). UU the Vote is funded by the member congregations of the Unitarian Universalist Association through the Annual Program Fund, and through additional contributions such as the one made by UUCPA in May, when UU the Vote was our Justice Partner. Thank you for the contributions that made it possible!
Special Music: Three pieces by U.S. American composers, Veronika Agranov-Dafoe, piano
Livestreaming, tech support, and online community creation: Greg Becker, Tim and Maribea Berry, Heather and David Chen, Dox Doxiadis, Mark and Alyssa Erickson, Megan Fazio, Rev. Dan Harper, Chris Jacobi, Christopher Kan, Paul Kostka, Kevin Ma, Bruce Olstad, Susan Owicki, William Phelps, Elsa Schafer, Melissa Valentine, BJ Wishinsky, Ann Zeise.