December 29, 2024

The Turning of the Year: Poetry Sunday

Are you ready for Poetry Sunday? After all the holiday festivities and programs, we invite you to join us for our annual Poetry Sunday, led by Dana Moore and Missy Rogers. Come gather together in the luxury of poetic fellowship to read, share, and embody the "tangible action" of the Kwanzaa principle Ujamaa; cooperative economic -- a communal sustainable wealth of among each other. There is no better way to embark on the coming year than engaging our congregational worth in the practice of poetry and music.

Prelude: John O’Neill

Welcome: Missy Rogers, Worship Associate and Dana Moore, Beacon Youth Coordinator 

Hymn #1018 Come and Go with Me, Chad Petrovay and John O’Neill 

Chalice Lighting: Missy Rogers - For Presence, John O’Donahue

Lighting of the Kinara led by Dana Moore - Messages of Liberation, Gershon Wolf

Poem 1: Dana Moore - Ego Tripping, Nikki Giovanni

Narration & Hymn: #1037 We Begin Again in Love (Dana, Missy, Chad vocals)

Candlelighting: John Laney, Chaplain 

Poem 2: Dana Moore - When Great Trees Fall, Maya Angelou

Song: #1031 Filled with Loving Kindness, Chad Petrovay and John O’Neill

Poem 3: Missy Rogers - Underestimating Kindness, Lizzie Bevis

Testimony: Missy Rogers

Offertory: Skating by Vince Guaraldi, John O’Neill

Poem 4: Missy Rogers - The/New Year, Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Creating Poems Together: led by Dana Moore 

Poem 5: Dana and Missy - Collective Poem by Beacon 

Hymn #1020 Woyaya, Chad Petrovay and John O’Neill

Poem 6: Dana - Presence, Melissa Shaw-Smith;

Benediction: Dana Moore

Postlude: John O’Neill