At 9:30, we continue to hold Children’s Religious Education most Sundays, and also provide child care. Child care for toddlers through elementary grades is offered at 11. People of all ages are also always welcome in the service! For the safety of our children during COVID, only caregivers and religious educators will visit the children’s areas.

Please write your name and contact information on the clipboard at the welcome table in front of the Main Hall before taking your seat. This is for contact tracing purposes only, so that we can reach everyone should someone here report a case of COVID. Thanks for helping us help further public health in the county.

To enter the Main Hall building, please show your vaccination card. We can keep them on file here for you (privacy-protected) so that you can enter more rapidly next time.

Please wear a mask on campus, and an N95 or equivalent inside the Main Hall (we have them at the welcome table if you need one). It is fine to raise it to take a drink or speak from the mic.

Restrooms are located in the Main Hall lobby and in the building with the light blue doors, next to the main office. All are for all genders.

At 11 a.m., those online share their joys and sorrows in writing and hear them spoken aloud by the worship leaders. Likewise, if you are attending the 11 a.m. service in person, please use the table up front to light candles and/or write your joy or sorrow on the provided cards. A mic is also available for greater accessibility.

Welcome and Announcements                                                               Richard Heydt

What’s happening at UUCPA today:

NO Sunday School for children and youth preK through grade 8 9:30 am , UUCPA

Sunday Service But You Do Believe in God . . . Don’t You?, UUCPA Main Hall, UUCPA Main Patio, and online, 11 am

Green Sanctuary Committee Meeting 12:30 pm

Action Council Meeting 1 pm

NO Discovering UUCPA today – mark your calendars for the next session, 1 pm April 10

NO OWL Grades 7-9 3:30 pm , UUCPA

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

And this week:

Finance Committee Meeting Monday, 3/14 7 pm

Sacred Text Reading Group (Wed) Wednesday, 3/16 12 pm

UUCPA 75th Anniversary ARE Classes Topic: Social Justice Through the Years Wednesday, 3/16 7 pm

By Your Side Singers Wednesday, 3/16 7:30 pm

Gardening @ UUCPA Thursday, 3/17 10 am , UUCPA

Sacred Text Reading Group (Saturday) Saturday, 3/19 4 pm

Forum What are the Family Histories of Forum Members? Sunday, 3/20 9 am

Sunday School for children and youth preK through grade 8 3/20 9:30 am , UUCPA

Sunday Service Tired of Living and Scared of Dying? 3/20 9:30 am , UUCPA Main Patio

Sunday Service Tired of Living and Scared of Dying? 3/20 11 am, Main Hall and online

Audio/Video Committee Meeting Sunday, 3/20 12 pm

OWL Grades 7-9 Sunday, 3/20 3:30 pm , UUCPA

Senior High Youth Group – SHYG Sunday, 3/20 6:30 pm , UUCPA

Have you been considering membership in UUCPA? Almost all of our activities are open to all. However, those who wish to have a say about the congregation’s direction, or who share its purpose and spirit, usually opt for formal, voting membership. The next several days are a good time for it, because the Board’s March 23 meeting is the last time the Board members will affirm new members in time for all to vote at the annual meeting on April 24. To learn more or receive a membership form, speak to John Wright, Membership & Engagement Coordinator–you’ll find him near the Welcome Table or at johnwright@uucpa.org.

Ukraine: Faith-Based Resources for Prayer, Reflection, Action Our hearts go out to the people of Ukraine in these difficult days.  Many organizations are offering suggestions of ways to help and organizations to which one can donate.  If you find yourself overwhelmed or just wondering how to decide what to do, please check the website for Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice, of which UUCPA is a founding member.  The website has resources, prayers, suggestions for action and places to donate, including links to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s statement about Ukraine.  You can also donate directly to the UUSC’s Emergency Response Fund here.  

Do you ever wonder if you are too UU to be Christian and too Christian to be UU? Connect with the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship!: non-creedal followers of Jesus rooted in the history and tradition of Unitarian Universalism. Check out their Wednesday Word, UU-oriented Bible study, guidance for forming a small group in one’s local congregation, and other resources at the above link. To connect with other Christian or Christianity-curious folks at UUCPA, e-mail Amy.

Where are the door handles? Tim Berry took the wooden handles of the Main Hall front doors off to refurbish them. If they’re not back by this morning, they will be in a week or so, looking like new. Thanks, Tim!

Prelude                                 Danza Lucumi, Ernesto Lecuona                Yuri Liberzon

Chalice Lighting                                                                                       Richard Heydt

Centering Words                                       Carl Gustav Jung                             Richard Heydt        

Song                                      Mysterious Presence, Source of All, No. 92 (gray hymnal)

words: Seth Curtis Beach

music: William Knapp

Mysterious Presence, source of all —

the world without, the soul within —

thou fount of life, O hear our call,

and pour thy living waters in.

Thou breathest in the rushing wind,

thy spirit stirs in leaf and flower;

nor wilt thou from the willing mind

withhold thy light and love and power.

Thy hand unseen to accents clear

awoke the psalmist’s trembling lyre,

and touched the lips of holy seer

with flame from thine own altar fire.

That touch divine again impart,

still give the prophet’s burning word;

and vocal in each waiting heart

let living psalms of praise be heard.

Stewardship Testimonial                                                                Elsa Schafer

Caring and Sharing                                                                    Richard Heydt

At 9:30: Please come to the green mic to share your joy or sorrow

At 11: To have your joys and sorrows shared aloud,

please write them on a card at the table by the pulpit

or post them in the Zoom chat box.

Meditation and Prayer

        In words . . .                                                                         Rev. Dr. Kenneth Collier

        In silence . . .

        In music . . .                                   Voice Still and Small                 Veronika Agranov-Dafoe

Reading                         from Lines Written Above Tintern Abbey         Richard Heydt

William Wordsworth

Song                             I Know This Rose Will Open, No. 396 (gray hymnal)

words & music: Mary E. Grigolia, © 1989

I know this rose will open.

I know my fear will burn away.

I know my soul will unfurl its wings.

I know this rose will open.                                              

Sermon                              But You Do Believe in God . . . Don’t You?        Ken Collier

Offering                                  Cinderella, Konstantin Vassiliev          Yuri Liberzon

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                                             Be Thou My Vision, No. 20 (gray hymnal)

words: Ancient Irish, trans. by Mary E. Byrne,

versed by Eleanor H. Hull, and adapted

music: Traditional Irish melody, harmony by

Carlton R. Young, © 1992 Abingdon Press

Be thou my vision, O God of my heart;

naught be all else to me, save that thou art.

Thou my best thought, by day or by night,

waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

Be thou my wisdom, and thou my true word;

I ever with thee and thou with me God;

thou my soul’s shelter, thou my high tower,

raise thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor world’s empty praise,

thou my inheritance, now and always;

thou and thou only, first in my heart,

Sov’reign of heaven, my treasure thou art.

Chalice Extinguishing                              Rev. Julia Hamilton                Ken Collier

11:00 Sung Benediction

Postlude                            Jam Beat from Hommage a Tom Jobim        Yuri Liberzon

Konstantin Vassiliev

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: Yuri Liberzon, guitar

Guest speaker: The Rev. Dr. Kenneth Collier, our previous settled Parish Minister, served with UUCPA from 1991 to 2001. Before a career that took him to UU congregations in Durham, NC, Gaithersburg, MD, Burke, VA, Philadelphia, and Santa Barbara, he earned a PhD in philosophy and was a college professor of philosophy. Now retired, he lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Anne Anderson. During his time at UUCPA, he introduced our centering bell, instituted the Worship Associates, and helped establish Buddhism as one of the congregation’s spiritual paths, and we are happy to welcome him back in this 75th Anniversary year.

        Ken’s book Embracing Presence: An Understanding of Religion and Spirituality was published in January.

Worship Associate: Richard Heydt

Ushers and greeters: Harry Wachob (9:30), Cathy Gale and Mike McLaughlin (11), Kristi Iverson (online)

Livestreaming, tech support, and online community creation: Greg Becker, Tim and Maribea Berry, Byron Brown, Heather Chen, Mark Erickson, Castor Fu, Bill Hilton, Paul Kostka, Steve Ludington, Kevin Ma, Bruce Olstad, William Phelps, Ann Zeise. Bruce Olstad creates the videos for the anthems and hymns each week.