Today is the last service on the parking lot! The 9:30 service is moving to our main patio beginning next Sunday, March 6.

Also on March 6: we add an in-person service at 11! Indoor or outdoor seating will be available.

Welcome and Announcements                                                               Rev. Amy Zucker

                                                                Morgenstern

At UUCPA today (if no location is given, the event takes place online only):

Sunday Service 11 am

OWL Grades 7-9 3:30 pm , UUCPA

Senior High Youth Group – SHYG 6:30 pm , UUCPA

and this week:

Brown Bag Books The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho Tuesday, 3/1 12 pm

Sacred Text Reading Group (Wed) Shakespeare (from The Tempest) Wednesday, 3/2 12 pm ,

UUCPA 75th Anniversary ARE Classes Topic: Children’s Programs of Our Congregation Wednesday, 3/2 7 pm

By Your Side Singers Wednesday, 3/2 7:30 pm

Gardening @ UUCPA Thursday, 3/3 10 am , UUCPA

Campus Workday Saturday, 3/5 9 am , UUCPA

Sacred Text Reading Group (Saturday) Saturday, 3/5 4 pm

Forum Scientific Aspirations and Engineering Challenges of the James Webb Space Telescope Sunday, 3/6 9 am

Sunday School for children and youth preK through grade 8 Sunday, 3/6 9:30 am , UUCPA

Sunday Service: Giving Life the Shape of Justice, 3/6 9:30 am , UUCPA Visitor Parking Lot

Sunday Service: Giving Life the Shape of Justice, 3/6 11 am

Healing the Divide The Future of the Healing the Divide Group Sunday, 3/6 1 pm

OWL Grades 7-9 Sunday, 3/6 3:30 pm , UUCPA

Senior High Youth Group – SHYG Sunday, 3/6 6:30 pm , UUCPA

Big and welcome changes are coming to our services beginning next week: 9:30 is moving off the parking lot, and at 11 we will be able to attend in person! You can read many important details here. Hooray!

As a result, the usher crew is expanding. To learn about ushering and/or join this elite team, e-mail Mike McLaughlin.

Prelude                                            Sometime Ago                        Larry Chinn

Sergio Mihanovich

Chalice Lighting                                                   

Centering Words                                                                            

Song                                                      Singing Through the Hard Times

                                        U. Utah Phillips; used by permission

Sometimes our living gets so dark and lonesome

It seems like there’s nothing we can do.

So we reach out to each other, and raise a song together,

And let our voices carry us through.

We are singing through the hard times,

Singing through the hard times,

Working for the good times to come.

We are singing through the hard times,

Singing through the hard times,

Working for the good times to come.

And when the war clouds gather, it’s so easy to get angry

And just as hard not to be afraid;

But you know in your own heart, no matter what happens,

You just can’t turn your back and walk away.

We are singing through the hard times,

Singing through the hard times,

Working for the good times to come.

We are singing through the hard times,

Singing through the hard times,

Working for the good times to come.

So hand in hand together, we help each other carry

The light of peace within us every day;

If we can learn to live it, to walk and talk and give it,

That world of peace won’t be so far away.

We are singing through the hard times,

Singing through the hard times,

Working for the good times to come.

We are singing through the hard times,

Singing through the hard times,

Working for the good times to come.

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                                      We Are Not Our Own (No. 317 in the gray hymnal)

words: Brian Wren; music: David Hurd

We are not our own. Earth forms us,

Human leaves on nature’s growing vine,

Fruit of many generations,

Seeds of life divine.

We are not alone. Earth names us:

Past and present, peoples near and far,

Family and friends and strangers

Show us who we are.

Therefore let us make thanksgiving,

And with justice, willing and care,

Give to earth, and all things living,

Liturgies of care.

Let us be a house of welcome,

Living stone upholding living stone,

Gladly showing all our neighbors

We are not our own!

Stewardship Testimonial                                                              Amy Morgenstern

Anthem                                Sim Shalom (Grant Peace), Isaacson        UUCPA Adult Choir

Robert Neff, soloist

Sermon                                        Twenty-Four Lessons from                Amy Morgenstern

Our Teacher, the Pandemic

Offering                                      Spring Will Be A Little Late This Year        Larry Chinn

Frank Loesser

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!

Song                                                The Leaf Unfurling (No. 7 in the gray hymnal)

                                        words: Dan Cohen; music: John Corrado

The leaf unfurling in the April air,

the newborn child, the loving parents’ care;

these constant, common miracles we share:

Alleluia! Alleluia!

All life is one, a single branching tree,

all pain a part of human misery,

all happiness a gift to you and me:

Alleluia! Alleluia!

The self-same bells for joy and sorrow ring.

No one can know what the next hour will bring.

We cry, we laugh, we mourn, and still we sing:

Alleluia! Alleluia!

Chalice Extinguishing                                                         

Postlude                                           Suddenly It's Spring                Larry Chinn

Johnny Burke & Jimmy Van Heusen

Benediction                                                                            All

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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: Larry Chinn, piano

Livestreaming, tech support, and online community creation: Greg Becker, Tim and Maribea Berry, Heather Chen, Mark Erickson, Megan Fazio, Castor Fu, Rev. Dan Harper, Bill Hilton, Chris Jacobi, Christopher Kan, Paul Kostka, Steve Ludington, Kevin Ma, Bruce Olstad, William Phelps, Ann Zeise. Bruce Olstad creates the videos for the anthems and hymns each week.