It’s been a year of remarkable difficulties, challenges, learnings, and stories.  Rev. Linda offers a chance for us to remember and release the events of 2020.

ORDER OF SERVICE

We come together…
Prelude Come, Come, Whoever You Are Brother Sun
Music by Rev. Lynn Ungar, words adapted from Rumi
Welcome   Haley Owens, Worship Weaver
Opening Hymn   Dark of Winter UUC’ville Choir
By Shelley Jackson Denham
Chalice Lighting Karen Prairie and Ellie Ransom
Musical Response  Spirit of Life
composed by Carolyn McDade and sung by the Orange County UUs

We give thanks ….
The Story of King Wenceslas and Boxing Day
Told by Rev. Linda Olson Peebles
Song  Good King Wenceslas  John Mason Neale
 Invitation to Offering
Offertory    Circle ‘Round for Freedom
Composed by Linda Hirschhorn, and sung by the Oakland UU Chancel Choir

The Year Ending ……. Looking Back
Our Joys and Sorrows
Musical Response     Tomorrow by Kate and Justin Miner
2020 UUA General Assembly Virtual Choir
…… Looking Forward
Our Hopes and Fears
Hymn Draw the Circle Wide by Mark A. Miller
Sung by the First Universalist Church, Rochester, NY
Benediction & Extinguishing of Chalice
Hymn Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns poem, traditional Scottish tune sung by Isisip
Social Time

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