1. Embrace: Build a welcoming, inclusive church
We seek to include the full diversity of our broader community, including people with/from all socio economic situations, gender identities, beliefs, ages, sexual orientations, mental and physical abilities, races and ethnicities. Therefore, we are examining all the ways in which we embody being a welcoming and inclusive community, and removing any barriers to this that currently exist that might prevent people from being fully welcomed into and involved in our church.

2. 1. Congregations demonstrate less denominational loyalty.
2. Members move from small group to small group across congregational lines rather than feeling loyalty to only the program of "their" congregation.

3. All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Welcome to
All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church
Assisted hearing devices are available at the Welcome Table in the Small Hall

4. (from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Prelude
Someday
(from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
By: Schwartz and Menken
Performed by Sharon Skidgel

5. Music Notes
This is the first piece in the first book of "Lyric Pieces" by Unitarian composer Edvard Grieg ( ). The series ultimately grew to 66 pieces in 10 books. Grieg would return to the graceful melody 34 years later, as he completed what he knew what would be the last book in the series.

6. Lyrics Someday When we are wiser When the world's older
When we have learned
I pray
Someday we may yet live
To live and let live
Someday
Life will be fairer
Need will be rarer
Greed will not pay
God speed
This bright millenium
On its way
Let it come

7. Lyrics Someday Our fight will be won then We'll stand in the sun then
That bright afternoon
Till then
On days when the sun is gone
We'll hang on
Wish upon the moon
There are some days dark and bitter
Seems we haven't got a prayer
But a prayer for someday better
Is the one thing we all share

8. Lyrics Someday When we are wiser When the world's older
When we have learned
I pray
Someday we may yet live
To live and let live
Someday
Life will be fairer
Need will be rarer
Greed wil not pay
God speed
This bright millenium
Let it come
Wish upon the moon
One day
Soon.

10. Gather Us In Gathering Song by Marty Haugen
adapt. Rev. Dr. Nori J. Rost

11. Here in this place new light is streaming,
Verse 1
Here in this place new light is streaming,
now is the darkness vanished away;
see in this place our fears and our dreaming,
brought here to all in the light of this day.

12. Gather us in the lost and forsaken, gather us in no two just the same;
Chorus 1
Gather us in the lost and forsaken,
gather us in no two just the same;
call to us now, and we shall awaken,
we shall arise at the sound of our name.

13. We are the young, our lives are a myst’ry,
Verse 2
We are the young, our lives are a myst’ry,
we are the old with wisdom and grace;
we have been sung throughout all of hist’ry,
called to be light to the whole human race.

14. Gather us in the Buddhist and Pagan,
Chorus 2
Gather us in the Buddhist and Pagan,
Humanist, Atheist join in the throng;
gather us in the Theist and Seeking,
give us the courage to enter the song.

15. Not in the dark of buildings confining,
Verse 3
Not in the dark of buildings confining,
not in some heaven light years away;
here in this place the new light is shining,
now is the moment, now is the day.

16. Gather us in from all tribes and nations,
Chorus 3
Gather us in from all tribes and nations,
gather us in, no one left alone;
gather us in, a great celebration,
fire of love in our flesh and our bones.

18. Rev. Dr. Nori Rost ASUUC Senior Minister
Welcome and Sounding of the Bell
Rev. Dr. Nori Rost
ASUUC Senior Minister

20. #121 in Singing the Living Tradition
Opening Hymn
We’ll Build a Land
words: Barbara Zanotti (Isaiah/Amos), adapt.
music: Carolyn McDade
arr. by Betsy Jo Angebranndt
#121 in Singing the Living Tradition

21. We’ll build a land where we bind up the broken.
Verse 1
We’ll build a land where we bind up the broken.
We’ll build a land where the captives go free,
where the oil of gladness dissolves all mourning.
Oh, we’ll build a promised land that can be.

22. Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
Chorus
Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
anointed by God, may then create peace:
where justice shall roll down like waters,
and peace like an everflowing stream.

23. We’ll build a land where we bring the good tidings
Verse 2
We’ll build a land where we bring the good tidings
to all the afflicted and all those who mourn.
And we’ll give them garlands instead of ashes.
Oh, we’ll build a land where peace is born.

24. Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
Chorus
Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
anointed by God, may then create peace:
where justice shall roll down like waters,
and peace like an everflowing stream.

25. We’ll be a land building up ancient cities,
Verse 3
We’ll be a land building up ancient cities,
raising up devastations from old;
restoring ruins of generations.
Oh, we’ll build a land of people so bold.

26. Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
Chorus
Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
anointed by God, may then create peace:
where justice shall roll down like waters,
and peace like an everflowing stream.

27. Come, build a land where the mantles of praises
Verse 4
Come, build a land where the mantles of praises
resound from spirits once faint and once weak;
where like oaks of righteousness stand her people.
Oh, we’ll build the land, my people we seek.

28. Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
Chorus
Come build a land where sisters and brothers,
anointed by God, may then create peace:
where justice shall roll down like waters,
and peace like an everflowing stream.

30. Chalice Lighting
John Garrett
ASUUC Member

31. Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture. –Tim Wise

32. We light this chalice as a symbol of our commitment to never stop working for racial justice.

34. The Story of Martin Luther King Jr
Story For All Ages
The Story of Martin Luther King Jr
YouTube Video

35. VIDEO

37. Reeb Children’s Benediction
Singing the Children Out
Reeb Children’s Benediction
words and music: Ian W. Riddell

38. Go in love, our hearts go with you.
Go in joy, our hopes go too.
Learn in love and grow in wisdom.
Shine your light in all you do.

40. ASUUC Board of Trustees
Reading
Jan Otto
ASUUC Board of Trustees

41. The stream of names of those who have been killed at the hands of the police feels endless, and I become overwhelmed when I consider all the names we do not know—all of those who lost their lives and had no camera there to capture it, nothing to corroborate police reports that named them as threats. Closed cases. I watch the collective mourning transpire across my social-media feeds.

42. I watch as people declare that they cannot get out of bed, cannot bear to go to work, cannot function as a human being is meant to function. This sense of anxiety is something I have become unsettlingly accustomed to. The familiar knot in my stomach. The tightness in my chest. But becoming accustomed to something does not mean that it does not take a toll. Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.”
― Clint Smith

44. Showing Up Rev. Nori Rost
Today’s Message
Showing Up
Rev. Nori Rost

47. ASUUC Board of Trustees
Offertory Reading
Jan Otto
ASUUC Board of Trustees

48. Everyone needs to do that work.
As Native organizer Klee Benally notes, racial justice movements need accomplices, not allies. Everyone should see their investment in dismantling white supremacy. Racial justice organizing is not about confessing race privilege, saying all the right radical things and trying to avoid offending people of color. It’s about building social movements that can dismantle white supremacy.
Everyone needs to do that work.
--Andrea Lee Smith, co-founder INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, Boarding School Healing Project and the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations

49. We will now take up the offering so that we may continue to do the work of racial justice in Colorado Springs and beyond.

51. Something Inside So Strong ASUUC Choir, Meg Prymus and Sharon Skidgel
Offertory Music
Something Inside So Strong
By: Labi Siffre
Performed by
ASUUC Choir, Meg Prymus and Sharon Skidgel

52. Lyrics The road is long, with many a winding turn,
That leads us to who knows where, who knows where.
But I'm strong, strong enough to carry him;
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
So on we go; His welfare is my concern.
No burden is he to bear, we'll get there.
For I know he would not encumber me;

53. Lyrics If I'm laden at all, I'm laden with sadness
That everyone's heart isn't filled with the gladness
Of love for one another.
It's a long, long road,
From which there is no return.
While we're on our way to there, why not share?
And the load doesn't weigh me down at all;
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.

54. Lyrics We look for a path, for a path makes the wilderness safer.
We follow our maps, but our maps are just made out of paper.
It’s only our minds that keep drawing these lines,
And it’s only our hearts can erase them,
When a single new star rearranges a whole constellation.
Our watches we set by the sun, but our hearts run on moontime.
We wait till some miracle comes, turning night into noontime.
But the only true miracles I’ve ever seen
Are those sudden and silent occasions,

55. Music Notes
Cecile Chaminade ( ) was one of the most successful salon composers of the 19th Century, and one of the most prominent women composers in an epoch not noted for granting opportunities to women composers. This piece comes from a set of etudes - studies in particular technical ideas - but is notable for its wistful mood. The outer sections are lyrical and nostalgic, looking back on the vanished summer; the middle section gives a preview of winter storms.

57. From You I Receive #402 in Singing the Living Tradition
Offertory Response
From You I Receive
words and music: Joseph and Nathan Segal
#402 in Singing the Living Tradition

58. From you I receive,
to you I give,
together we share,
and from this we live.

60. Joys and Concerns
Congregation

61. Opening
I am sending you light____
to heal you, to hold you.
to hold you in love.

63. Closing
I am sending you light____
to heal you, to hold you.
to hold you in love.

65. Closing Words
Rev. Dr. Nori Rost

66. Addressing racism and racial inequality as a white ally is, necessarily, difficult and uncomfortable work. It means putting aside personal defenses to recognize the ways we all, consciously and unconsciously, support white supremacy. It means genuinely challenging yourself to acknowledge privilege and how you personally benefit from it. It means taking your own biases and calling yourself out on them, even though that doesn’t feel good.

67. It means recognizing that we cannot and will not dismantle a system it took hundreds of years to build in a day. But here, at the very least, is a place to start.
-From 11 Things White People Can Do to Be Real Anti-Racist Allies, Kali Holloway / AlterNet

69. Lift Every Voice and Sing #149 in Singing the Living Tradition
Closing Hymn
Lift Every Voice and Sing
words: James Weldon Johnson
music: J. Rosamond Johnson
#149 in Singing the Living Tradition

70. Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring,
Verse 1
Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies of liberty;
let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies,
let it resound loud as the rolling sea.

71. full of the faith that the dark past has taught us; sing a song
Verse 1 (cont.)
Sing a song
full of the faith that the dark past has taught us;
sing a song
full of the hope that the present has brought us;
facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
let us march on till victory is won.

72. Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod,
Verse 2
Stony the road we trod, bitter the chastening rod,
felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
yet with a steady beat, have not our weary feet
come to the place for which our fathers sighed?

73. over a way that with tears has been watered; we have come,
Verse 2 (cont.)
We have come
over a way that with tears has been watered;
we have come,
treading our path thru the blood of the slaughtered,
out from the gloomy past, till now we stand at last
where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.

74. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Verse 3
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
thou who hast brought us thus far on the way;
thou who hast by thy might led us into the light,
keep us forever in the path, we pray.

75. stray from the places, our God, where we met thee; lest our hearts
Verse 3 (cont.)
Lest our feet
stray from the places, our God, where we met thee;
lest our hearts
drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;
shadowed beneath thy hand, may we forever stand,
true to our God, true to our native land.

77. words and music: Judy Fjell
Extinguishing the Chalice / Song
As We Leave This Place
words and music: Judy Fjell

78. Now, as we leave this place, the chalice dims 1
Now, as we leave this place,
the chalice dims
but the fire still burns within our hearts
beyond these doors.

79. Now, as we leave this place, mem’ries of each and ev’ry face 2
Now, as we leave this place,
mem’ries of each and ev’ry face
carry us ___ into the world.

80. for now we know ___ that something 3
And we will return
for now we know ___ that something
greater ___ than any of us ___ alone
is part of us ___ as we leave this place.

82. Performed by Sharon Skidgel
Postlude
You've Got a Friend in Me
by Randy Newman
Performed by Sharon Skidgel

83. Music Notes
As he closed his creative life, Grieg revisited the melody from his early "Arietta," transforming it into something more mysterious and elusive.

84. Lyrics
She works hard for the money
So hard for it, honey
So you better treat her right.

85. Embrace: Build a welcoming, inclusive church
We seek to include the full diversity of our broader community, including people with/from all socio economic situations, gender identities, beliefs, ages, sexual orientations, mental and physical abilities, races and ethnicities. Therefore, we are examining all the ways in which we embody being a welcoming and inclusive community, and removing any barriers to this that currently exist that might prevent people from being fully welcomed into and involved in our church.

86. 1. Congregations demonstrate less denominational loyalty.
2. Members move from small group to small group across congregational lines rather than feeling loyalty to only the program of "their" congregation.

87. Please enjoy the Fellowship Hour
following service
in the Small Hall

88. for being part of our community today
Thank you
for being part of our community today