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Our Order of Service:
Element Worship Leader
Prelude Glen Thomas Rideout, Allison Halerz, Kari Gottfried
Welcome Bob Gordon
Call to Worship Stephen Kraynak
Chalice Lighting Bob Gordon
Hymn Brian Moon
Story Jamili Omar
Joys and Sorrows Bob Gordon
Offering Bob Gordon
Offertory Hangyu Bai
Anthem Thomas Gregg & Darnell Roulhac
Readings & Responses Stephen Kraynak & Bob Gordon
Sermon Stephen Kraynak
Litany of the Beloved Ancestors Stephen Kraynak & Bob Gordon
Closing Words Stephen Kraynak
Chalice Extinguishing Bob Gordon
Postlude Darnell Roulhac and Thomas Gregg
Attributions:
Prelude: “Change is Coming”: Words & Music by Molly Bajgot
Voices: Glen Thomas Rideout, Allison Halerz, Kari Gottfried
Guitar: Kari Gottfried
Arrangement: Kari Gottfried; used with permission
Call to Worship: “The Change” by Matthew P. Taylor, in BLUU Notes An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation; BLUU and Skinner House, 2021
Chalice Lighting: Mission Statement of the Harlem Unitarian Church; Egbert Ethelred Brown, pastor; “A Dream Aborted: Egbert Ethelred Brown in Jamaica and Harlem” in Black Pioneers in a White Denomination by Mark Morrison-Reed, Skinner House Books, 1994, p. 95
Hymn: “Never Turning Back” by Pat Humphries of Emma’s Revolution
Story: Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi ; illustrations by Ashley Lukashevsky
Offertory: Deep River, an anonymous African-American spiritual, popularized by Henry Burleigh in his 1916 collection Jubliee Songs of the USA Anthem “Grief”: Music by William Grant Still; Words by LeRoy V. Brant; Vocalists: Thomas Gregg & Darnell Roulhac
Readings: from The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin; from Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates; from BREATHE A Letter To My Sons by Imani Perry
Closing Words: from “We Are Worthy” by Elandria Williams; In Memoriam: Elandria Williams, UUA Co-Moderator, 1979-2020; https://www.uua.org/pressroom/press-releases/untimely-passing-elandria-leaves-great-void-0
Chalice Extinguishing: “May I Be Light” by Rev. Mykal Slack in BLUU Notes An Anthology of Love, Justice, and Liberation; BLUU and Skinner House, 2021
Postlude: “Lift Every Voice and Sing” Words: James Weldon Johnson; Music: J. Rosamond Johnson; Vocalists: Darnell Roulhac and Thomas Gregg
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