Worship and
Religious Education,
​SUNDAY 
December 6, 2020

Our online worship will be updated every Sunday morning by 10:00 a.m.

"Devil of the noonday sun"

FAmily Worship
Virtual Worship Service
Community Church of Chapel Hill, Unitarian Universalist
“The Devil of the Noonday Sun”
Rev. Thom Belote, Minister
Nathan Kosiba, Worship Associate
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Opening Screen - 00:00
Words of Welcome (Nathan Kosiba) - 00:06
Within These Walls for the Building Task Force (Nathan Kosiba) - 00:30
Opening Hymn: #225 O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - 1:37
Call to Worship (Nathan Kosiba) - 4:44
Chalice Lighting and Lighting the First Advent Candle (Rev. Thom Belote) - 6:14
Musical Presentation: “Cantique de Racine” by Gabriel Fauré (Community Church Choir, with Piano and String Trio) - 7:59
Reading by Jonathan Zecher (Nathan Kosiba) - 13:11
Meditation Hymn: #232 The Hills Are Bare at Bethlehem - 15:18
Sermon: “The Devil of the Noonday Sun” (Rev. Thom Belote) - 17:28
Musical Presentation - “Resilient” by Rising Appalachia (Charly Maddox and Amy Shaub Maddox) - 38:52
Joys & Sorrows (Rev. Thom Belote) - 43:02
Closing Hymn: #224 Let Christmas Come - 48:22
Extinguishing the Chalice (Rev. Thom Belote) - 49:34
Closing Song: Shalom - 50:15
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A great big thanks to the members of the Community Church Choir: Carol Parker, Katie Headley, Susan Siplon, Deborah Klinger, Jane Provan, Lex Headley, Linda Thompson, Marya Ilgen-Lieth, Kirsten Bergman, Ro Mason, Ivy Brezina, Mary LeMay, Steve Day, Scott Provan, Steve Warshaw, Larry Mason, George Thompson, Josh Socolar, Brian Moyer, and Ariadna Nacianceno, piano

Also to the Community Church String Trio: Kitty Stalberg, viola, Debbie Davis and Dorothy Wright, cello

Thanks also to Amy Shaub Maddox and Charly Maddox for their wonderful duet.

​And finally, thanks to today’s Virtual Choir: Ginger Long, Ruth Gibson and Caroline Sherman
"Stillness Unplugged"
Led by Marion Hirsch and Kat Good

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