140419 - Installation - Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick

Offering
The Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd
The offering will be a split-plate to support both Meadville-Lombard Theological
School and Starr King School for the Ministry. Checks may be made payable to
“UUCF” with “UU Seminaries” on the memo line.
Offertory Anthem
“Time to Shine” by Carl Nygard
UUCF Choir
Chalice Extinguishing
The Rev. Heather Janules
Benediction
The Rev. Dr. Carl Gregg
*Recessional Hymn
“Fire of Commitment”
From the light of days remembered burns a beacon bright and clear.
Guiding hands and hearts and spirits into faith set free from fear.
When the fire of commitment sets our mind and soul ablaze.
When our hunger and our passion meet to call us on our way.
When we live with deep assurance of the flame that burns within.
Then our promise finds fulfillment and our future can begin.
From the stories of our living rings a song both brave and free.
Calling pilgrims still to witness to the life of liberty.
Chorus
From the dreams of youthful vision comes a new, prophetic voice.
Which demands a deeper justice built by our courageous choice.
Chorus
Postlude
“Gonna Fly Now" — Bill Conti
All are warmly invited to an hors d'oeuvre reception
in the Atrium, Blanche Ames Art Gallery, and Rooms 113/115.
(The butlered appetizers are all vegan and gluten-free.)
If you came this way,
Taking any route, starting from anywhere,
At any time or at any season,
It would always be the same: you would have to put off
Sense and notion. You are not here to verify,
Instruct yourself, or inform curiosity
Or carry report. You are here to kneel
Where prayer has been valid….
With the drawing of this Love and the voice of this Calling
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time….
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
Quick now, here, now, always—
A condition of complete simplicity
(Costing not less than everything)
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flames are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one.
—T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”
Buddhist Chant
verse 1
Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.
A Service of Covenant and Installation
Prelude
Welcome
“Passacaille” by G.F. Handel
Nick Int Veldt
Robert Ladner, President of the UUCF Board of Trustees
*Processional Hymn “Rank by Rank, Again We Stand”
The (*) indicates that you are invited to rise in body or spirit.
Rank by rank again we stand / from the four winds gathered hither.
Loud the hallowed walls demand / whence we come and how, and whither
From their stillness breaking clear / echoes wake to warn or cheer;
Higher truth from saint and seer / call to us assembled here.
Ours the years’ memorial store / honored days and names we reckon
Days of comrades gone before / lives that speak and deeds that reckon
From the dreaming of the night / to the labors of the day
Shines their everlasting light / guiding us upon our way
Though the path be hard and long / still we strive in expectation;
Join we now their ageless song / one with them in aspiration.
One in name, in honor one / guard we well the crown they won;
What they dreamed be ours to do / hope their hopes, and seal them true.
Kindling the Chalice
Introit
May I be filled with loving kindness; may I be well. (x2)
May I be peaceful and at ease. May I be whole.
A Reading from the Christian Tradition (Matthew 21:28-32)
The Rev. Dr. Barbara Kershner-Daniel
verse 2
May you be filled with loving kindness; may you be well. (x2)
May you be peaceful and at ease. May you be whole.
A Reading from the Jewish Tradition (Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel)
Magin LaSov Gregg
verse 3
May we be filled with loving kindness; may we be well. (x2)
May we be peaceful and at ease. May we be whole.
A Reading from our UU Heritage (“On Being Otherwise,” Rev. Dr. John Buehrens)
The Rev. Barbara Coeyman
Choral Response “We Are One” — Toby Tate
Sermon
“For Whom?”
The Rev. Eric Posa
*Hymn
“Building a New Way”
We are building a new way (x3), feeling stronger ev’ry day.
We are building a new way.
“Pass On the Light” — Clif Hardin
UUCF Choir
Deborah Int Veldt, Music Director
We are working to be free (x3), hate and greed and jealousy.
We are working to be free.
Story for All Ages
Lora Powell-Haney, Director of Religious Education
Go now in peace, Go now in peace. May the Power of Love surround you.
Everywhere, everywhere, you may go.
Call to Celebration
The Rev. Michael Morse, Chair of Search Committee
Members of Ministerial Search Committee: Mary Bowman-Kruhm, Bill Butler,
Doug Foard, Danielle Grace, Roy Greene, Dick Roblin
The Rev. Paige Getty
We can feed our every need (x3), start with love, that is the seed.
We can feed our every need.
Peace and freedom is our cry. (x3), without these this world will die.
Peace and freedom is our cry.
Litany of Installation (see insert)
Litany of Installation
Robert Ladner, President of Congregation
President: No right is more precious to a free congregation than choosing its own
minister. With joy and gratitude, we celebrate a covenant of mutual trust and
support between the members of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of
Frederick and the Reverend Dr. James Carl Gregg, Jr., whom we have freely
chosen and who has freely chosen us. Will the members of the Unitarian
Universalist Congregation of Frederick please rise in body or spirit and join me in
this litany.
Members of UUCF: We pledge our commitment to a shared ministry in this
congregation and community. We offer you, the Reverend Dr. James Carl Gregg,
Jr., a free pulpit, and ask that you preach the truth as you know it. We pledge to
the best of our ability to journey with you, to speak the truth in love, to dwell
together in peace, and to live in right relationship with ourselves, the wider
community, and the Earth. We have called you to be the settled minister of our
congregation. Will you accept this responsibility?
Minister: I will. I pledge my consecrated efforts toward our shared ministry. To
the best of my ability, I will speak the truth in love, minister to our joys and
sorrows alike, and guide us in the ways of peace with justice. I will seek to
cultivate interdependence, reason, and spiritual growth among us and in the
world.
Members of UUCF: We do hereby install you as minister of the Unitarian
Universalist Congregation of Frederick. May our shared ministry continue to
flourish, and be a source of blessing, healing, and hope for us and for the world.
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Laying on of Hands
The Rev. David Carl Olson
Hymn
“Spirit of Life”
Spirit of Life, come unto me. Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion.
Blow in the wind, rise in the sea; move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice.
Roots hold me close; wings set me free; Spirit of Life, come to me, come to me.
Charge to the Minister
Charge to the Congregation
The Rev. Abhi Janamanchi
The Rev. David Pyle
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Special Thanks:
Marshall: The Rev. Amanda Poppei, Senior Leader of the Washington Ethical Society
Sound Tech: Roy Greene
Ushers: Josh and Tara Scibelli
Welcome Team: Bob Clegg and Thia Wood
Participants:
The Rev. Eric Posa, Interim Minister of the Unitarian Church of Harrisburg
(Pennsylvania) and one of Carl's divinity school classmates.
The Rev. Dr. Barbara Kershner-Daniel, Minister of Evangelical Reformed United
Church of Christ in Frederick.
Magin LaSov Gregg, Assistant Professor of English at Frederick Community College.
She and Carl have been married since 2007. They have two cats (Kol Nidre and
Shamash Chaim) and two dogs (Dobby Templeton and Scout “Boo Radley”).
The Rev. Barbara Coeyman, Interim Minister of The Unitarian Universalist Church in
Reston.
The Rev. Paige Getty, Senior Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of
Columbia.
The Rev. David Carl Olson, Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore.
The Rev. Abhi Janamanchi, Minister of Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in
Bethesda.
The Rev. David Pyle, District Executive for the Joseph Priestley District of the
Unitarian Universalist Association.
The Rev. Nancy McDonald Ladd, Minister of River Road Unitarian Universalist
Congregation in Bethesda.
The Rev. Heather Janules, Minister for Congregational Life and Social Justice at Cedar
Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda.