“The 1619 Project”
Rev. Meredith Garmon, Adine Usher, Joe Majsak
Order of Service
2020 November 1
Rev. Meredith Garmon, Minister
Adine Usher, Joe Majsak, Guest Speakers
Adam Kent, Music Director
Our Congregation: John Cavallero, for Ecumenical Food Pantry
The CUUC Choir is directed by Lisa N. Meyer, accompanied by Georgianna Pappas
Gathering Music
Wade in the Water ~ Sweet Honey in the Rock
Deep River ~ Paul Robeson
Rise Up Shepherd an’ Foller ~ Dorothy Maynor
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands ~ Marian Anderson
Introduction Theme ~ CUUC Choir
You’ve Got a Friend in Me ~ Randy Newman, performed by the CUUC Choir
Welcome ~ Meredith, Adam, Adine, Joe
Chalice Lighting ~ Adine
Each morning we must hold out the chalice of our being
To receive, to carry, to give back.
UU Minute ~ Meredith
Centering Music ~ Adam
Wade in the Water ~ arranged by Margaret Boggs
Spoken Invocation, Invitation to Share ~ Meredith
Sung Invocation ~ #318, We Would Be One (verse 1)
We would be one as now we join in singing
our hymn of love, to pledge ourselves anew
to that high cause of greater understanding
of who we are, and what in us is true.
We would be one in living for each other
to show to all a new community.
Affirmation ~ Adam
We covenant to nurture each other in our spiritual journeys;
foster compassion and understanding within and beyond our community;
and engage in service to transform ourselves and our world.
Opening Music ~ Adam
Hoosier Rag ~ Julia Niebergall
Time for All Ages ~ 5th-7th Grade Religious Education Class
YoUUth the Vote
Choir Anthem
We Shall be Known ~ MaMuse
performed by the UU the Vote “How We Thrive” Virtual Choir
Prayer ~ Meredith
Sung Response
Calling all you hungry hearts - Everywhere through endless time
You who wander you who thirst - I offer you this heart of mine.
Calling all you hungry spirits - All the lost and the left behind
All I can I’ll share with you - Your joy and your sorrow, I make it mine.
Musical Meditation ~ Adam
From Cinnamon Grove: II. Adagio ~ R. Nathaniel Dett
Spiritual Practice ~ Meredith
Musical Interlude ~ Adam
From Portraits in Jazz: “A Taste for Bass” & “Billie’s Song” ~ Valerie Capers
Our Congregation ~ John Cavallero
Share the Plate: Emergency Ecumenical Food Pantry
Hymn ~ #149 Lift Every Voice and Sing
Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies of liberty;
let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies,
let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us;
sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod,
felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet
come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears has been watered;
we have come, treading our path thru the blood of the slaughtered,
out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
thou who hast by thy might led us into the light,
keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;
lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;
shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand,
true to our God, true to our native land.
Dialogue, Part 1: “Capitalism” ~ Adine Joe,
Musical Interlude ~ Adam
Deep River ~ Traditional Spiritual, arr. by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Dialogue, Part 2: “Sugar” ~ Joe, Adine
Hymn ~ #1035, Freedom is Coming
Oh freedom, oh freedom,
oh freedom, freedom is coming!
Oh yes I know, oh yes I know,
oh yes I know, freedom is coming!
Oh freedom, oh freedom,
oh freedom, freedom is coming!
Congregation Video
Halloween Parade
Extinguishing the Chalice ~ Adine
This beacon of peace, this torch of liberty, this fire of justice,
We will take with us in our hearts
That it may light the way to world community
For every child of this earth.
Spoken Benediction ~ Meredith, Adam, Joe, Adine
Sung Benediction ~ CUUC Choir
You’ve Got a Friend in Me ~ Randy Newman, performed by the CUUC Choir
If you got troubles, then I got ’em too
There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you
We stick together and we see it through
’Cause you’ve got a friend in me
Yeah you’ve got a friend in me
Now some other folks might be a little bit smarter than I am
Bigger and stronger too, maybe
But none of them will ever love you the way I do
Just me and you, boy
And as the years go by
Our friendship will never die
You’re gonna see it’s our destiny
You’ve got a friend in me
Music for Parting ~ Adam
Tumbao ~ Tania León
