UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST

CHURCH OF SPOKANE

CREATE COMMUNITY FIND MEANING WORK FOR JUSTICE

Order of Service August 30, 2015

Today at Church

Worship Service in the Sanctuary 9:15 and 11 am

Childcare Murray Room

9:15 & 11:00 am

Religious Ed RE Wing 11:00 am

“Windows” Annual Word Garden Poetry Service

Word Garden Poet, UUCS Members & Friends

Lay Leader Lisa Conger, UUCS Member

Storyteller Marilyn Carpenter, UUCS Member

Ushers 9:15 am — Larry Hodge & Linda Hodge

11:00 am — Maggie Montana & Warren Carpenter

Musicians Doug Huigen, Drum

Dixie Marshall, UUCS Guest Pianist Deborah Jacquemin, UUCS Music Director

August 23, 2015 Attendance Counts Worship Services 9:15 am – 95 11 am — 114 Total — 209

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“The birds are in their trees

the toast in the toaster

and the poets are at their windows.”

--Billy Collins

Chimes to Gather Us Together Dixie Marshall

Welcome & Greeting Each Other Lisa Conger

Chalice Lighting Lisa Conger

Opening Reflection Lisa Conger

Singing Together #38-“Morning Has Broken”

Story for All Ages

Marilyn Carpenter, UUCS Member

Children’s Recessional # 413 “Go Now in Peace”

Candles of Care Lisa Conger

Meditation “Reflections on the River” A Poem by Alice Peterson

Offertory “On a Clear Day” by Lerner and Lane

Arr. By Preston Keys

Order of Service

“Windows” Written and Spoken by UUCS Word Garden Poets

“Casting Out Gardens” Elaine Stephens “Windows” Jerry Robinson “The Cutting Word” Diana Wickes “A Little Lesson on Wings” Lisa Conger “Bongos In the Night Dixie Marshall

(drumming by Doug Huigen)

Musical Interlude “Rhythms” by Doug Huigen

“Portrait of a Woman” Mary Jane Blanpied “Antonia” Dixie Marshall “Dad” Millie Vance “Ironing” Alice Peterson “A Multi-Media Event & the LOL’s” Nancy Hand

Musical Interlude Selection from “Secret Garden” by Rolf Lovland

“Holy Ground” Alice Peterson “Symphony” Jerry Robinson “A Word Bouquet” by Michele Thayer Ensemble “Fine Thanks, How Are You?” David Boose “Survivor” Diana Wickes

Musical Interlude

Selection from “Secret Garden” by Rolf Lovland

Singing Together #16 “Tis a Gift to be Simple”

Benediction “The Pilgrimage” by Lisa Conger

Shalom Havayreem

(Peace friends till we meet again)

Postlude “What a Wonderful World” by David Weiss & Bob Thiele

Arr. By Noreen Lienhard

Visitors and Members — If you have questions or thoughts about our church or church

community, please see our Board of Trustees members (people with the red ribbons on their nametags)

in the Friendship Hall after today’s service.

Please support the art and work of the Word Garden Poets. Visit with them after the service and purchase your copy of the

“Windows” anthology — a compilation of the poems presented for your pleasure today.