Director of Music Scott DeVeaux offers us uplifting music, and his insights into how the 19th-century traditional music many associate with Christmas can be transformed to bring joy into our troubled 21st century world.

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ORDER OF SERVICE

Prelude ​​​​​ In the Bleak Midwinter by Gustav Holst    ​ offered by Scott DeVeaux

Welcome   ​Greg Townsend, Worship Weaver      Jim Gorham, Board Member

​​​ Call to  Worship  the Rev. Leia Durland-Jones

Opening Hymn  Welcome Christmas   by Albert Hague, Eugene Poddany by the cast of “Glee!” 

Chalice Lighting  

Musical Response People Look East  by Eleanor Farjeon    offered by Scott DeVeaux

Centering/Sharing of Joys & Sorrows               ​Rev. Leia

Hymn   People Look East  by Eleanor Farjeon   ​ offered by Scott DeVeaux

Music Meditation Christmas Time Is Here by Vince Guaraldi    offered by Scott Deveaux

Invitation to Offering​​​​​​​​     ​Greg Townsend

Offertory  From You I Receive

Sermon ​​ “Transforming Joy in Music”  ​Scott DeVeaux, UUCVille Director of Music

Hymn       Christmas Song by Robert Wells, Mel Tormé  ​ ​offered by Nat King Cole

Benediction & Extinguishing of the Chalice ​Rev. Leia

Postlude   Let it Snow! by Jule Styne

Thanks to Sean and Margaret Migas for AV tech support this morning.

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