Order of Service

March 29 2026

9:00 AM

Rethinking Freedom:
The Messages of Passover, retold

Led by
Rev. DL Helfer

Thank you to this morning’s Worship Team

Thank you to this morning’s Worship Team
Lay Pastoral Care: Anthony Wilson
Pianist:  Nonetta Shatakhtsian
Usher: Bob Walker
Tech Host:  Lance Collins

Chime

Chalice Lighting

Welcome and Centering      Rev. DL

Opening Hymn     #34 Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire

Unison Affirmation
Love is the spirit of this church
And service our mission
This is our great covenant
To dwell together in peace
To seek the truth in love
And to help one another

Joys and Sorrows      Anthony Wilson

Meditation      “The Life that Stretches Between Us” by Emmy Lou Belcher

Musical Interlude

Reading      “Red Sea” by Aurora Levins Morales

Sermon    Rethinking Freedom: The Messages of Passover, retold, Rev. DL 

Closing Hymn     #159 This is My Song

Closing Words:      “The Long Road to Freedom” Nelson Mandela

Our Work in the World
              Our March and April Share the Plate Partner is
              Climate Action Rhode Island 350 RI (CARI-350 RI)
              (See insert for more information.)

Extinguishing the Chalice
Carry the Flame of Peace and Love Until We Meet Again (repeat)

 

 

10:30 AM

Order of Service

March 29 2026

9:00 AM

Rethinking Freedom: The Messages of Passover, retold

Led by
Rev. DL Helfer

Thank you to this morning’s Worship Team
Worship Partner:  Linda Hartley
Time for All Ages: Rev. Jeannette Bessinger
Lay Pastoral Care: Ryan Paquette
Pianist:  Nonetta Shatakhtsian
Usher: Renee Bucklin
Tech Host:  Lance Collins

Centering Thought:
Liberation Is a Process

Liberation and freedom are not the same. Liberation is a process. Freedom is a temporary state of being…. It is the hope of freedom that drives liberation.

Liberation is the process of struggle with ourselves and with each other that begets the transformation of all of us to our full humanity… Through liberation, freedom may be made manifest, but that freedom is not a permanent state of being… Liberation is dynamic. It never ends.

From “Ethics as an Art of Doing the Work Our Souls Must Have” by Emilie M. Townes (p. 41), published in Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader, Eds. Katie Geneva Cannon, Emilie M. Townes,
and Angela D. Sims.

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Chime

Welcome     Linda Hartley

Chalice Lighting     by Shawn Gibson

*Opening Hymn     #34  Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire

*Unison Affirmation
Love is the spirit of this church
And service our mission
This is our great covenant
To dwell together in peace
To seek the truth in love
And to help one another

Time for All Ages  Rev. J.

Children’s Recessional   Sung to the tune of Frere Jacques

As you journey – As you journey
May you know – May you know
Love and hope go with you –
Love and hope go with you
Learn and grow – Learn and grow

Call for the Offering     Justin Boyan, Climate Action Rhode Island

Offertory

Time for Centering     “The Life that Stretches Between Us”  by Emmy Lou Belcher

Joys and Sorrows     Ryan Paquette

Reading     “Red Sea” by Aurora Levins Morales

Sermon      Rethinking Freedom: The Messages of Passover, retold, Rev. DL

*Closing Hymn     #159  This is My Song

Closing Words:    “The Long Road to Freedom”  Nelson Mandela

*Extinguishing the Chalice

Carry the Flame of Peace and Love Until We Meet Again (repeat)

*Please stand as you are able*