We have often made resolutions for a new year. Why not develop a new theme instead? A personal theme that encompasses your hopes, dreams and desires for 2022.
Join us as we reflect on the past 20 months, and look to the year 2022 through readings, music, times of silence, and short homilies. What might your personal theme be for the coming year?
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Theme for the Coming Year
December 26, 2021
Centering Thought
“Packaged inside every mistake there lays a great lesson. And while I don’t want to take the mistake into the New Year, I most certainly want to take the lesson that’s packaged inside of it.”
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
Centering Music
Om Purnamadah Purnamidam (That is the whole, this is the whole.)
Welcome
Marian Siemens
Gathering Hymn
9 No Longer Forward nor Behind
Chalice Lighting
As We Travel in Unknown Lands by Barnaby Feder
Janet Toews
Opening Words
Each New Day by Peter Friedrichs
Marian Siemens
Affirmation
Love Is the Spirit
Candles of Caring
Cheryl Simmonds
Unison Words
To troubled hearts, to spirits over-brimming, we offer our ministry of listening. For stories that need to be told, we open our hearts and offer the care of our attention, and the support of this, our faith community.
Hymn
38 Morning Has Broken
Offering
Marian Siemens
Our Share the Plate partner for December is Sunshine House.
Offertory
Circle Round for Freedom performed by the First UU Winnipeg Choir
Reading
words by Neil Gaiman
Janet Toews
Anthem
1000 Morning Has Come
Meditation
Hope by Jennifer Pratt-Walter
Janet Toews
The sound of the bell and two minutes of silence will follow the spoken meditation.
Sermon
Theme for the Coming Year
Janet Toews
Closing Hymn
1057 Go Lifted Up
Announcements
Marian Siemens
Closing Words
The Perfect Time by Qigong Master, Vicki Dello Joio
Marian Siemens
Chalice Extinguishing
Carry the Flame
Janet Toews
Transition
Life’s Too Short To Be Silent performed by the First UU Winnipeg Choir
Gratitude for our staff and lay leaders who made this service happen:
- Leader: Janet Toews
- Coordinators: Marian Siemens, Steve Lennon
- Tech Team:
- Candles of Caring Host: Cheryl Simmonds
- Songleading Videos: Paul Rodermond, Acting Music Director/Accompanist;
- P.J. Buchan, past Music Director; First UU Winnipeg Choir; Josh Robern, Editor
- To contact Sunserv, the Sunday Services Team, please email worship@uuwinnipeg.mb.ca