In this season of preparation for winter holidays, Rev Linda invites us to consider asking ourselves what it is we can wait for, hope for, during the long dark nights.  The choir offers a new anthem, and we celebrate this year’s recipient of the Connie Cheetham Award, our board president, Lorie Craddock.

Order of Service

 We come together…

Prelude – In the Bleak Midwinter Gustav Holst, composer
arranged and performed by Scott DeVeaux

Welcome   Laura Horn, Worship Weaver
Breck Gastinger, Board member

Opening Hymn #226  People Look East

Chalice Lighting

Song Rise Up O Flame

We give thanks….

Presentation of the Connie Cheetham Award
Elizabeth Breeden, Lorie Craddock

Invitation to the Offering

Offertory  From You I Receive

Dedication 

We hold one another….

Sharing of Joys and Sorrows         Christine Gresser

Prayer and Reading Rev. Dr. Linda Olson Peebles
“From the Heart of Christmas” by Howard Thurman

Musical meditation    Dark of Winter  Shelly Jackson Denham, composer
Scott DeVeaux arrangement, performed by the UUCville Choir

….as we wait in the dark

Homily “Waiting in the Dark”   Rev. Dr. Linda Olson Peebles

Song Light One Candle    Peter Yarrow, composer
Scott DeVeaux, performer and arrangement

  Closing Hymn  O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Kienna Williams, soloist
Adam Podd, piano and arrangement

Benediction and Extinguishing of the Chalice

Postlude     In the Bleak Midwinter