Board Welcome Betsy Smalley
Opening Hymn #1010 “We Give Thanks”
Indigenous Land Acknowledgment Rev. Kelli McNeal
Centering Words by David Breeden, Rev. Dr. Terasa Cooley
Congregational Greeting
Bringing in the Light “Farewell Summer” by Amy Beach, Nathan Hamm
Chalice Lighting by Scott Taylor
Time for All Ages Will it Be Okay? Amber Scott
Written by Crescent Dragonwagon
and illustrated by Jessica Love
Affirming Our Children #1013 ”Open My Heart”
Share the Plate Offering League of Women Voters (LVW)
Offertory “Prelude Op. 32 no. 9” by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Pastoral Meditation Beloved is Where We Begin by Jan Richardson
Choral Anthem “Bashana Haba’ah” Chalice Choir
words: Ehud Manor, music: Nurit Hirsch,
arr. John Leavitt
Reading
Meditative Hymn #88 “Calm Soul of All Things”
Sermon The Porous Self Rev. Dr. Terasa Cooley
Closing Hymn #108 ”My Life Flows On in Endless Song”
Benediction by Scott Taylor
Extinguishing the Chalice
Choral Benediction “Let All Our Hearts” by Jim Scott
Announcements
for the week of 9/20/2026
Today! Board Listening Session. Your Board would like your feedback about which qualities you feel are most important in a minister for our church. Please attend a listening Session any Sunday after worship from now until October 4! Email board@firstuucolumbus.org for more information.
BREAD Listening Sessions are beginning! Come get to know each other and help Building Responsibility and Dignity (BREAD) determine our justice work for the coming year. Listening Sessions are scheduled for September 27, October 4, 6, 11 & 18. Email bread@firstuucolumbus.org or register at the JAM table in Beach Hall.
The Atheists-Skeptics-Humanists Invite you to “Evolution and the Adaptive Basis of Religion” on September 22, 7 – 9 pm. Speaker Dr. Leo Taylor, Evolutionary Biologist.
Upcoming Board Meeting: September 23, 7 pm. All are welcome! RSVP at https://firstuucolumbus.org/meeting-request/
Expressive Worship: September 24, 7 pm. Experience a different kind of spiritual practice centered around personal creative process.
Support the SYC Scholarship Fundraiser Wednesday September 23 at BiBiBop Graceland. Mention SYC and a portion of the profits from your meal will go to to the SYC Scholarship fund!
ARA Congregational Read: Stamped from the Beginning. Read or watch Ibram X. Kendi’s book and participate in the congregational group read. Sign the posters near A/B and Register on Realm to attend the Sept. 29th discussion.
Senior Gathering Thursday, October 1 at 10:30 am. Please RSVP in your email invitation, or by mailing seniorgathering@firstuucolumbus.org.
Strategic Planning Workshop Saturday, October 17, 9 am – noon All are invited to the morning session of a special strategic planning workshop facilitated by the Rev. Byron Tyler Coles, and Cassandra Montenegro, our UUA Regional representatives. Register on Realm to RSVP!
Find details in this week’s Friday’s News and
check our online calendar for upcoming events!