March 23, 2025 - 'Trust and the Work of Non-Violence'

Order of Worship
Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing

Prelude
Marcy Christoff, piano

Introit: You’ve Got a Friend
Jazz Combo

Lighting Our Chalice

Hymn: Bend the Arc

Welcome
Jeff Kennedy

Response: #1059 May Your Life Be as a Song

Story: Bridge of Trust
Sarah Carson

Singing the Students and Volunteers to Class: The Trees of the Field

Call to Worship

Touchstones

Prayer in Song: There Is a Love

Invitation to Generosity

Offertory Anthem: Count on Me
Jazz Combo

Message: Lessons in Truth and Non-Violence

Hymn: #162 Gonna Lay Down My Sword and Shield

Benediction

Postlude: Side by Side
Jazz Combo

Julie Thomas-Beckett, Guest Speaker
Jeff Kennedy, Worship Associate
Sarah Carson, Children & Youth Faith Development Coordinator
Jazz Combo, Special Music
L. Harrison Brown, Director of Music & Worship Arts
Anne-Marie Rachman, Associate Director of Music
Annescia Dillard, ASL Interpreter
 

Credits for March 23, 2025
Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, License #A-729954

Improvisations
Anne-Marie Rachman

You’ve Got a Friend
Words & Music: Carole King, b. 1942
© 1971 (Renewed 1999) COLGEMS-EMI MUSIC INC

Bend the Arc
Justice Choir Songbook #6
Words & Music: Wendi Buck
© 2017 Wendi Buck


May Your Life Be as a Song
Singing the Journey #1059
Words: Jim Scott, b. 1946
Music: Yuri Zaritsky

The Trees of the Field 
Words: Isaiah 55: 12,13 
Music:  S. Dauermann & S.G. Rubin

What the World Needs Now Is Love
Words: Hal David, 1921-2012
Music: Burt Bacharach, 1928-2023
© 1965 BLUE SEAS MUSIC, INC. & JAC MUSIC CO., INC

There Is a Love
Words: Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker
Music: Elizabeth Norton
© 2014

Count on Me
Words & Music: Bruno Mars, Ari Levine, Philip Lawrence
© 2010 MARS FORCE MUSIC, BUGHOUSE, NORTHSIDE INDEPENDENT MUSIC PUBLISHING, LLC, TOY PLANE MUSIC, ART FOR ART'S SAKE MUSIC, MUSIC FAMAMANEM and ROC NATION MUSIC

Gonna Lay Down My Sword and Shield
Singing the Living Tradition #162
Words & Music: African-American Spiritual, c. 1750-1875
Arranged by: Mary Allen Walden, 1946-1997
© 1992 Unitarian Universalist Association

Side by Side
Words & Music: Harry M. Woods, 1896-1970