June 22, 2025

Living and Loving – The Gift of Being Alive

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.”Rainer Maria Rilke

Let’s explore together how we might accomplish this particular task. Join Beacon Worship Associate Missy Rogers as she leads us in worship.

Program for children and youth: PreK-5 grades begin in Fellowship Hall (lower level) this Sunday, for their summer program and themed activities. Grades 6-12 are off for the summer.

Prelude: John O’Neill, pianist

Welcome & Chalice Lighting: Welcome Howard Thurman edit by Jamaine Cripe, Lifespan Coordinator

Opening Hymn: #34 Though I May Speak with Bravest Fire; Misa Iwama, Director of Music Ministry and John O’Neill, pianist

Time for All Ages: The Good Samaritan by Jamaine Cripe

Candlelighting: Dan Llanes, Beacon Chaplain 

Hymn: #1032, Daoona Nayeesh

Reading: from the published diaries of Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life

Musical Meditation: I Am Light by India Arie Simpson; Misa Iwama, Director of Music Ministry and John O’Neill, pianist

Offering: Jamaine Cripe, Lifespan Coordination 

Offertory V’ahavta L’reiacha Kamocha by Noam Katz; Misa Iwama, Director of Music Ministry and John O’Neill, Pianist

Love Only Love by Neil Comess-Daniels & Diane Rose

Sermon: Living and Loving  by Missy Rogers

Closing Song This Joy by Shirley Caesar; Jamaine Cripe, Lifespan Coordinator, Misa Iwama, Director of Music Ministry and John O’Neill, Pianist

Benediction: Missy Rogers & Jamaine Cripe

Postlude: John O’Neill, pianist