Date  July 28, 2024 

Worship Leader Michael Safran 

Time for All Ages 

Liturgist Stephanie Pawlowski 

Music Ellen Gozion, Director of Instrumental Music; Ioulia Kornberg, soloist and song leader. 

Prelude  

Welcome Stephanie Pawlowski 

Lighting the Chalice and Call To Worship Stephanie  

Opening Hymn #354 We Laugh, We Cry 

Collective Reading (Unison Reading)   Stephanie  

We covenant to affirm and promote:  

• The inherent worth and dignity of every person;  

• Justice, equity, and compassion in human relations;  

• Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;  

• A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;  

• The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;  

• The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;  

• Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part;  

• Journeying toward spiritual wholeness by working to build a diverse multicultural Beloved Community by our actions that accountably dismantle racism and other oppressions in ourselves and our institutions. 

Story for All   Poems by Shel Silverstein 

Singing For Our Children #395 Sing and Rejoice   

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 July is Planned Parenthood of Western PA [PPWPA] 

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 Hymn “My Faith Has Found  Resting Place” Tune Landås, by Lidie Edmunds c.1890; new words by Ellen Gozion  

Please join in singing the refrain:  

I need no other argument; I need no other plea; 

It is enough that Love will be the Road, the Door, the Key. 

Sharing Joys & Sorrows    Stephanie 

Meditation, silence, or prayer   For All That is Our Life by Liz Weber 

Musical Response  #1009 Meditation on Breathing 

Reading by Lao Tzu read by Michael 

Sermon Hymn #1053 How Could Anyone  

Sermon We All Need Each Other to Thrive    Michael Safran 

Closing Hymn Draw the Circle 

Draw the circle, draw the circle wide. (x2) 

No one goes alone; we’ll go side by side.  

Draw the circle, draw the circle wide. 

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 A poem by Miller Williams read by Michael 

Postlude You’ve Got a Friend in Me by Randy Newman – Ioulia Kornberg  

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 2024 option