On the Eve of All Saints Day (all-hallow-e’en) we honor those who have gone before us. We invite everyone to send us digital images of their ancestors, which we will show during the service.

ORDER OF SERVICE

Cultivating Relationship with the Ancestors

11am Community Worship, Sunday, October 31, 2021

Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Charlottesville

Prelude    ​​​​​​ Scott DeVeaux, UUCville Music Director

Welcome   ​​​Debby Norton Worship Weaver, Jim Gorham Board of Trustees

Kim Swift, Ebenezer Baptist Church 

Opening Hymn We Give Thanks by Wendy Luella Perkins​​offered by Scott DeVeaux

Chalice Lighting​​​​​    Clarisse, Kendall, Amber, Ryan RePass

Chalice Song Gathered Here by Philip Porter 

      offered by UU Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) Chancel Choir 

The Altar of Our Ancestors   ​        the Rev. Leia Durland-Jones, Minister of Faith Development

Reading “Gratitude to My Ancestors” by The Rev. Marta Valentin     ​read by Darius Mehta

Anthem Voices of the Ancestors Calling ​​​​   UUCVille Children’s Choir

Prayer

Sharing of Joys & Sorrows  ​​​​​  The Rev. Leia Durland-Jones

Music Meditation​​​​​​   ​​Scott DeVeaux

Invitation to the Offering   ​​​​​​​​DebbyNorton 

Offertory   From You I Receive​​​​​​​Scott DeVeaux

Sermon  Cultivating Relationships with the Ancestors  

The Rev. Dr. Linda Olson Peebles, UUCVille Interim Lead Minister

Hymn We Laugh, We Cry by Shelley Jackson Denham  ​offered by the UUCVille Virtual Choir

Benediction and Chalice Extinguishing

Postlude

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