October 5, 2025

9:30 Time to Harvest! 11AM Animal Blessing

This Sunday includes two unique services. At our 9:30AM service we celebrate the gifts of harvest and relationship with our international partners from Transylvania and India. What can we cultivate and harvest in our lives now? Join us at 11AM for our annual animal blessing service. Bring your pets or a photo and we will offer a blessing.

Program for children and youth: All children and youth will remain in the sanctuary for a multigeneration service at 9:30 and 11 AM. Grades 6 and up meet at 6 PM.

9:30 AM:

Prelude

Welcome: Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner, Lead Ministry Team

Chalice Lighting: Rosemary Wright, Worship Associate

Opening Music: #347, Gather the Spirit

Greetings from the Unitarian Universalist Association: Rev. Morgan McLean

Candle Lighting: Allyson Murphy, Beacon Chaplain

Responsive Reading: #568 Connections Are Made Slowly, Marge Piercy led by Rosemary Wright

Meditation: Acorn Meditation, Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner

Hymn #123 Spirit of Life

Call for Offering: Erik Solberg, Beacon Board of Trustees

Offertory Music: My Lord What a Morning

Time to Harvest, Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner, Lead Ministry Team

Closing Music: Turn, Turn, Turn by Pete Seeger & words of Ecclesiastes

Benediction: Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner, Lead Ministry Team

Postlude

11AM:

Prelude

Welcome: Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner, Lead Ministry Team

Chalice Lighting: Jamaine Cripe, Lifespan Faith Team

Opening Music: All God’s Critters Got a Place in the Choir by Bill Staines: Shawn Jordan

Time for All Ages: The Story of St. Patrick by Jamaine Cripe and Rev. Dr. Jé Exodus Hooper

Hymn: #123 Spirit of Life

Candle Lighting: Maureen Erwin Beacon Chaplain

Blessing of the Animals, Rev. Jé Exodus Hooper and Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner

Testimony: Rev. Dr. Jé Exodus Hooper, Assistant Minister

Offertory Music: #203 All Creatures of the Earth and Sky

Closing Responsive Reading: 551 Earth Teach Me read by Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner

Closing Music: Turn Turn Turn by Pete Seeger with words from Ecclesiastes

Benediction: Rev. Dr. Robin Tanner, Lead Ministry Team

Postlude