We welcome dynamic preacher Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd, Senior Minister of River Road UU in Bethesda, MD, and Dr. Elias Ortega, President of the UU Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. They share a powerful service of story and music, reminding us to find the holy, the joyful, by joining into conversations with people different from ourselves, opening the chance for life-giving transformation! Click here for video of the service.

Order of Service

Living Water

11am Community Worship,

UU Congregation of Charlottesville

Prelude   Everything Is New   Melanie DeMore

Welcome Worship Weaver Greg Townsend

Board Vice President Elizabeth Breeden

Opening Hymn  Wade in the Water      traditional African American spiritual

 offered by Mark Miller, Professor of Music, Drew University

Chalice Lighting   Halbert Tavera family

Sharing of Joys & Sorrows  Breck Gastinger

Prayer Sung and Spoken   A Plowshare Prayer     Spencer La Joye

The Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd

Invitation to the Offering Greg Townsend

OffertoryI Choose Love Mark Miller

Readings   The Fountain by Denise Levertov  The Rev. McDonald Ladd, MLTS alumna

    John 4:1-26   Dr. Elias Ortega, President Meadville Lombard Theological School

Vanessa Williams, MLTS Student;  Rev. Jon Coffee, MLTS alumnus

Song  Come to the Water  by Laurie Zelman & Mark Miler        offered by Justin Gonzalez

Homily  “Living Water”  The Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd, Senior Minister, River Road UU 

Hymn Draw the Circle Wide by Mark Miller     offered by Parsippany, NJ, Public School Choir  

Benediction and Chalice Extinguishing      The Rev. Ali K. C. Bell, 2021 MLTS graduate

Thanks to the tech crew of Montclair NJ UU Church for video artistry.

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Thanks to UU Congregation of Charlottesville Tech Team, Sean Skally and Kelly Dryden. 

Meeting id:   95025058534

Call: 646-558-8656