SUNDAY SERVICE 

Onsite & Online ~  10 am

Reverend Nica Eaton

InGathering: Fully Alive!

Come home to Chalice for our annual Ingathering celebration and Water Communion as we begin a new congregational year together. We’ll explore what it means to be fully alive. Come celebrate this one precious life, the waters that connect us, and the joy of being together again, and join us for a community picnic at Borchard Park after service.

Processional Song: “You Are Welcome Here” by Karen Drucker 

Welcome & Call to Worship – Reverend Nica Eaton 

Introduction – Claudia Barton 

Chalice Lighting – Reverend Nica Eaton

Reprise of –“You are Welcome Here” by Karen Drucker

Time for All Ages – “All the Water in the World” by George Ella Lyon. Told by Samantha Dickerson. 

Announcements – Amy Reed, Katie Smith, David Barker, Randall Edwards, and Samantha Dickerson. 

Offering Words – Claudia Barton

Offering Music – “Home” by Drew Pearson and Greg Holden. Arranged by Greg Gilpin. Performed by Chalice Choir and the Sniders, under the direction of Anthony Concepcion. 

Joys and Sorrows – If you are in person please fill out an index card. You can also email your joys or concerns during the week to jns@chaliceuu.org

Bubble Meditation – Samantha Dickerson 

Song – #1007 There’s a River

Talk – “Fully Alive” by Reverend Nica Eaton

“Being Alive” – by Stephen Sondheim sung by Reverend Nica Eaton 

Water Ceremony – Reverend Nica Eaton & friends

Closing Song –  “This Joy that I Have”, by Shirley Caesar

Closing Words – Reverend Nica Eaton

Extinguishing the Chalice – Claudia Barton

Send Off – Reverend Nica Eaton

Postlude – Anthony Concepcion

 

Please join us at our InGathering Picnic at Borchard Park picnic area C following today’s service. There will be no coffee service at Chalice today.