Worship and
Religious Education,
​SUNDAY 
February 21, 2021

Our online worship will be updated every Sunday morning by 10:00 a.m.
Please join us for our Zoom Coffee Hour following today's service at 11:00.

"Covid, vaccines, and the long wait"

Family Worship
Virtual Worship Service
Community Church of Chapel Hill, Unitarian Universalist
“Covid, vaccines, and the long wait”
Sara Gush, Preacher
Kathy Putnam, Worship Associate
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Opening Screen - 00:00​
Words of Welcome (Kathy Putnam) - 00:06​
Within These Walls for the Annual Pledge Drive (Caroline Sherman) - 1:25​
Opening Hymn: #126 Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing - 3:09​
Call To Worship (Kathy Putnam) - 5:44​
Chalice Lighting (Kathy Putnam) - 6:39​
Musical Presentation - “How Can I Keep From Singing" American Folk Hymn, arr. by Andy Beck (Tobin Wright) - 7:21​
Reading #501 and 694 by Frederick E. Gillis (Kathy Putnam) - 10:17​
Meditation Hymn: #396 I Know This Rose Will Open  - 11:29​
Sermon: “Covid, vaccines, and the long wait” (Sara Gush) - 13:23​
Musical Presentation: “On the Day We Are Together Again” by Humbird, based on an arrangement by Will Robertson (Jena Kaizen, Annie Huntly, Ruth Gibson, Ed Steffes and Bill Rote) - 29:59​
Joys & Sorrows (Rev. Thom Belote) - 35:21​
Closing Words by Bishop Michael Curry (Kathy Putnam) - 40:45​
Closing Hymn: #1028​ The Fire of Commitment - 41:18​
Extinguishing the Chalice (Rev. Thom Belote) - 44:12​
Closing Song: Shalom - 44:49​
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Enormous thanks to the singers in the two Special Music pieces, Tobin Wright, Jena Kaizen, Annie Huntly, Ruth Gibson, Ed Steffes and Bill Rote.

Special Thanks to the Community Church Virtual Choir: Jane Provan, Jena Kaizen, Jessica Godreau, Amy Glazier, Scott Provan, Paul Eskildsen, George Thompson and Larry Mason.

And Thanks to the singers for previously recorded hymns #396 and #1028: Jane Provan, Jena Kaizen, Amy Glazier, Kirsten Bergman and Scott Provan.
"Beloved Community: Healing"
Marion Hirsch and Kat Good

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