May 31, 2026 (click for digital OOS)

Worship Leader Tyler Coles 

Time for All Ages Erica Shadowsong 

Liturgist   Stephanie Pawlowski 

Music Lee Saville-Iksic 

Song Leaders Rob Schwartz  

Tech Nicky Baldy, Will Snavely 

Worship Coordinator  Stephanie Pawlowski 

Prelude “Fireflies (The Light Inside)” by Lee Saville-Iksic 

Welcome     Stephanie 

Lighting the Chalice and Call to Worship    Stephanie 

Opening Hymn #323 Break Not the Circle of Unending Love 

Collective Grounding    Stephanie 

We name our collective recommitment to care for the earth. 

Knowing the ground we live upon is sacred, 

We pledge to bring new life to the earth 

New Life to the air 

New Life to the waters 

New Life to each other 

For all Life is sacred 

Story for All   “Soup That Never Ends” — Erica SHadowsong, Director of Religious Education 

Singing For Our Children “This Little Light of Mine” (please remain seated) 

Offering   Stephanie 

Donations by check may be mailed to the church office.  Electronic donations can be made online through the church website or by texting “give” to (412) 435-1050 and following the instructions.          

Share the plate for May is Reading Ready Pittsburgh  

Joys and Sorrows: During the offertory music, you are invited to light a candle or place a stone in Blessed Community water as you offer silent gratitude or prayers. Two tables are in the sanctuary; one in the front, to the right of the platform, and one in the back right alcove. 

Offertory Music “Love and Hard Times” by Paul Simon – Lee Saville-Iksic 

Meditation, silence, or prayer    Stephanie   

Hymn #318 We Would Be One (please remain seated) 

Reading            Tyler Coles 

Sermon   Living Holy Lives    Tyler Coles 

Hymn #1015 I Know I Can — v. 1, 2 and 4, repeat v. 1 (please rise as you are willing and able) 

Extinguishing the Chalice Flame     Stephanie 

We extinguish this flame but not the light of truth, 

the warmth of community, or the fire of commitment: 

these we carry in our hearts until we are together again. 

Benediction   Tyler 

Postlude  “Wholy Holy” by Marvin Gaye, Al Cleveland, and Renaldo Benson – Lee Saville-Iksic 

To donate to Share the Plate  

– by check mailed to the church office, please include STP on the memo line  

– online on the church website, use the drop down to select Plate. 

– by texting “Give” to 412-435-1050 following the directions with the word share or pledge after the donation amount as appropriate. 

To make a pledge payment  

-by check, please put pledge in the memo line  

– online on the church website, keep the default General Fund 2026 option  

Reading Ready Pittsburgh, founded by our church member Mary Denison,  is a local nonprofit dedicated to early literacy.  Reading Ready Pittsburgh believes in the power of family book sharing to ensure all children are ready to thrive in school. By increasing access to books and encouraging significant family engagement, we work to guarantee that all families have the tools and resources they need to support their children. 

Rev. Byron Tyler Coles was born in Roanoke, VA, and is the only child of Monica and Terry. Inspired by the good news of Unitarian Universalism, they believe the best of our collective ministry strives towards conjuring the Beloved Kin-dom on earth as it is in heaven. They engage this mandate through movement chaplaincy and multi-racial organizing. 

Rev. Coles has served the greater faith as the Young Adult Community Leader of SPARK, Intern Minister of Mount Vernon Unitarian Church, and as a board member of both Diverse & Revolutionary Unitarian Universalist Multicultural Ministries (DRUUMM) and the Black Lives of Unitarian Universalisms (BLUU). Tyler has served as a member of Congregational Life Staff since 2020, first in the Southern Region and now as the Lead of the Central East Region.