Welcome and Announcements                                                       Rev. Amy Zucker

                                                                        Morgenstern

Undie Sundays continue through December 5! There are many ways to make your donation, whether of needed items, gift cards, or money. Some of the items requested are sleeping bags, blankets, undergarments (underwear, socks), warm coats/heavy hoodies (adult sizes), wool hats/beanies, winter gloves/scarves, backpacks, umbrellas, raincoats, and ponchos. Click the link or scan the QR code for more information.

Check out What’s Happening at UUCPA today (all events are online except if otherwise noted):

Audio/Video Committee Meeting 12 - 1 pm

NO OWL Grades 7-9 today 3:30 - 5 pm, UUCPA

NO Senior High Youth Group – SHYG today 6:30 - 7:30 pm, UUCPA

        Coming up this week:

UPLIFT Trans/Non-Binary Gathering Space Tuesday, 11/23 5 - 6 pm

White Folks Dismantling White Supremacy Tuesday, 11/23 7:15 - 8:45 pm

NO Sacred Text Reading Group (Wed.) Wednesday, 11/24 12 - 1 pm

Gardening @ UUCPA Thursday, 11/25 10 am - 1 pm, UUCPA

Sacred Text Reading Group (Saturday) Saturday, 11/27 4 - 5 pm

Forum – Selection of Forum Discussion Topics for January Sunday, 11/28 9 - 10:15 am

NO Sunday School today Sunday, 11/28 9:30 - 10:30 am, UUCPA

Sunday Service: Going Where Justice Calls Sunday, 11/28 9:30 - 10:30 am, UUCPA

Sunday Service: Going Where Justice Calls Sunday, 11/28 11 am - 12 pm

NO OWL Grades 7-9 today Sunday, 11/28 3:30 - 5 pm, UUCPA

NO Senior High Youth Group – SHYG today Sunday, 11/28 6:30 - 7:30 pm, UUCPA

        You might want to begin reading for these upcoming discussions:

Brown Bag Books: The Eight Master Lessons of Nature Tuesday, 12/7 12 - 2 pm, Fireside Room

Sci Fi / Fantasy Discussion Group: The Space Between Worlds Wed., 12/15 7 - 8:30 pm

And please note these upcoming memorial services:

Celebration of the Life of Nancy Westerfield, Saturday, 12/11, 10 am

Celebration of the life of June Bridges, Sunday, 12/12, 2 pm

Prelude                                   Kokopelli, K. Hoover        Karen Van Dyke

Chalice Lighting                       UUCPA Family Chalice Lighting               Amy Morgenstern  

We light this chalice to celebrate

Unitarian Universalism,

The church of the open minds,

Helping hands,

And loving hearts.

Centering Words                   In the Name of All That is Complicated            Amy Morgenstern

Laurel Littlejohn Gray

Caring and Sharing                                 music by Melanie

                                                DeMore

As the music plays,

please post your sorrows and joys in the Zoom chat box

and we will hold them in love.

Song                                     Break Not the Circle (No. 323 in gray hymnal) 

words: Fred Kaan, © 1975 Hope Publishing Co.

music: Thomas Benjamin; © 1992 Unitarian Universalist Association  

Break not the circle of enabling love

Where people grow, forgiven and forgiving;

Break not that circle, make it wider still,

Till it includes, embraces all the living.

Come, wonder at this love that comes to life,

Where words of freedom are with humor spoken,

And people keep no score of wrong and guilt,

But will that human bonds remain unbroken.

Join then the movement of the love that frees,

Till people of whatever race or nation

Will truly be themselves, stand on their feet,

See eye to eye with laughter and elation.

A Conversation                Well Actually . . . (Part I)        Greg Becker &                                                                 Kris Geering

Song                                             Over the River and Through the Wood

(Thanksgiving Day by Lydia Maria Child)

Over the river and through the wood,

        To grandfather's house we go;

         The horse knows the way

         To carry the sleigh

        Through the white and drifted snow.

Over the river and through the wood--

        Oh, how the wind does blow!

         It stings the toes

         And bites the nose,

        As over the ground we go.

Over the river and through the wood,

    To have first-rate play.

         Hear the bells ring,

         "Ting-a-ling-ding!"

    Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day!

Over the river and through the wood,

        And straight through the barn-yard gate.

         We seem to go

         Extremely slow--

        It is so hard to wait!

Over the river, and through the wood-

    Old Jowler hears our bells;

        He shakes his pow,

        With a loud bow wow,

    And thus the news he tells.

Over the river and through the wood--

        Now grandmother's cap I spy!

         Hurrah for the fun!

         Is the pudding done?

        Hurrah for the pumpkin-pie!

A Conversation                      Well Actually . . . (Part II)        Greg Becker &

                                                Kris Geering

Story                                                Thanksgiving with Family (Part I)                Rev. Dan Harper

Anthem                                  Blue-Green Hills of Earth                UUCPA Adult Choir

Oler; arr. Stommen        

Story                                            Thanksgiving with Family (Part II)                Rev. Dan Harper

Offering                                     Partita in a Minor - Sarabande, J. S. Bach        Karen Van Dyke        

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 “uucpa20212022”

Thank you! 

Story                                     Thanksgiving with Family (Part III)        Rev. Dan Harper

Song                                      For All That Is Our Life (No. 128 in the gray hymnal)

words: Bruce Findlow; music: Patrick L. Rickey

(c) 1992 Unitarian Universalist Association

For all that is our life

We sing our thanks and praise;

For all life is a gift

Which we are called to use

To build the common good

And make our own days glad.

For needs which others serve,

For services we give,

For work and its rewards,

For hours of rest and love;

We come with praise and thanks

For all that is our life.

For sorrow we must bear,

For failures, pain, and loss,

for each new thing we learn,

For fearful hours that pass:

We come with praise and thanks

For all that is our life.

For all that is our life

We sing our thanks and praise;

For all life is a gift

Which we are called to use

To build the common good

And make our own days glad.

Chalice Extinguishing                                      Amy Morgenstern

Postlude                                       Achte Stucke, I-IV, Hindemith        Karen Van Dyke

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.

Music Director: Bruce Olstad                                 Pianist: Veronika Agranov-Dafoe

Special music: Karen Van Dyke, flute

Our family chalice lighting: To practice the hand movements or share it with a friend, you can see Dan’s illustrated version here.

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, Christopher Kan, Paul Kostka, Kevin Ma, Bruce Olstad, William Phelps, Melissa Valentine, BJ Wishinsky, Ann Zeise.