Rev. Walter Leflore, Minister of the UU Church of Roanoke, VA, joins us to share a powerful reflection on the continued struggle to become the inclusive and democratic nation we have hoped to be. Rev. Linda will join in welcoming and thanking her friend and colleague, a respected UU minister and denominational leader, to the UUCVille virtual pulpit.

We come together…

Prelude Waltz in E-flat major by Tchaikovsky     offered by  James Smith

Welcome      Worship Weaver  Debby Norton

Guest Preacher the Rev. Walter LeFlore

Opening Hymn      Now Let Us Sing

Offered by the Bay Area UU Church Virtual Choir

Chalice Lighting      the Redick-Smith family

Song       Morning Has Broken   by Eleanor Farjeon

Offered by Scott DeVeaux, Music Director

We are becoming…

Reflections on a New Name.    Hayley Owens and Debby Norton

Song     Woyaya  

Offered by UUCville Virtual Choir 

Prayer         The Rev. Dr. Rev. Linda Olson Peebles

Sharing of Joys and Sorrows          Hayley Owens

Music Meditation      To Spring by Grieg    offered by James Smith

We Give Thanks…

Invitation to the Offering       Debby Norton

Social Action Collection         Shelby Marie Edwards, Executive Director

Public Housing Assoc. of Residents

Offertory.   Prelude in B minor by Chopin   offered by James Smith

We Commit…..

Sermon    “Becoming – a Nation Living Up to Our Hopes”  Rev. Walter LeFlore

Hymn.   We Would Be One  by Samuel Wright and Jean Sibelius 

offered by Chalice Choir, Church of the Larger Fellowship  

Benediction         Rev. Linda Olson Peebles

Postlude        Joplin Rag James Smith

POST – SERVICE –   small group conversations about New Name

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Thanks to Sean Skally, Bailey Reed, Caroline Heins for tech support, and to Ellie Ransom for video editing.

Meeting id: 91458163119

Call: 646-558-8656