We are bombarded with messages to “move forward” and that we need to “pivot” in these challenging pandemic times. Do we need closure in order to do that? Let’s explore physical and spiritual renewal.
Service coordinators: Dylan Fijal, Odell Havsdotter
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Societal Bereavement:
Becoming CEO of Your Own Personal Renewal Corporation
January 30, 2022
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Centering Thought
Here is the only place and now is the only moment in which to look for how to live who and what you are. Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Centering Music
Turn, Turn, Turn by the Byrds
Welcome
Dylan Fijal
Gathering Hymn
55 Dark of Winter
Chalice Lighting
Opening Words
Journey by Steve Lennon
Affirmation
Love Is The Spirit
Candles of Caring
Colleen Milikin
Unison Words
Let us be grateful for this time together as we listen to the heart-felt messages shared with us today. May the strength we gain through this sharing help us create hope and courage in the lives of those around us and in our own lives. May it be so.
Story Wisdom
Michael Thiessen
Hymn
391 Voice Still and Small
Offering
This is the 5th Sunday of the month of January, so our share the plate offering will go to support the minister’s discretionary fund.
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Offertory
You’ll Never Walk Alone performed by Young People’s Chorus of New York City
Reading
Reading from The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Hymn
291 Die Gedanken Sind Frei
Meditation
The sound of the bell and two minutes of silence will follow the video meditation.
Sermon
Heather Emberley: Societal Bereavement: Becoming CEO of Your Own Personal Renewal Corporation
Hymn
298 Wake Now My Senses
Announcements
Odell Havsdotter
Closing Words
Words by Steve Lennon
Chalice Extinguishing
Carry the Flame
Transition Music
Bridge Over Troubled Water performed by Young People’s Chorus of New York City
Gratitude
Gratitude for our staff and our lay leaders who made this service happen:
- Leaders: Heather Emberley, Michael Thiessen (Story time)
- Coordinators: Odell Havsdotter and Dylan Fijal
- Tech Team: Colleen Milikin, Barbara Fuller, and Lorie Battershill
- Candles of Caring Host: Colleen Milikin
- Songleader Videos: Paul Rodermond, Acting Music Director and accompanist; the FUUW Choir; Josh Robern, editor
- To contact the Sunday Services Team, please email worship@uuwinnipeg.mb.ca