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One part of many services that is too personal to share is called Joys and Concerns. Here is a sample of the words and music that are said and sung, with the personal information removed:
Joys and Concerns,
and From You I Receive
Recordings from the service April 20, 2008.
Hymn: We Are the Earth (No.303)
Anthem:
Pharaoh’s Blues (Patti Drennan)
Welcome to new
members (edited to remove personal information)
Anthem: I Believe (Quodlibet with the Bach-Gounon Ave Maria, arranged Beard and Tucker)
Sermon: Do We All Have a Higher Power?
Recordings from the service April 13, 2008.
Hymn: Earth Was Given As A Garden (No.207)
Outreach
Collection for NH Community Loan Fund (Al Kantor)
Why I Value This Church (Jennifer Madden)
Anthem: No Hiding Place (soloist Ellen McCormick)
The rest of the recording on 4/13 was cut off due to technical difficulties.
Recordings from the service April 6, 2008.
Chalice Words (Preschool and Kindergarthen RE classes)
Hymn: Wake Now My Senses (No.298)
Conversation with the Children and As We Leave This Friendly Place (No.414)
Anthem: In These Delightful Pleasant Groves
The rest of the recording on 4/6 was cut off due to technical difficulties.
Recordings from the service March 30, 2008.
Hymn: Here We Have Gathered (No.360)
Outreach
Collection for Cal Libby Art Scholarship (Sandra LaBarge
Neumann)
Why I Value This Church (Kathy Fletcher)
The rest of the recording on 3/30 was cut off due to technical difficulties.
Recordings from the Easter service March 23, 2008.
Prelude: Tomorrow Needs Us (Treble and Youth Choirs)
Hymn: Lo the Earth Awakes Again (No.61) with brass quintet
Conversation with the Children and As We Leave This Friendly Place (No.414)
Sermon: Easter Blessings - Literally
Hymn: O Day of Light and Gladness (No. 270)
Recordings from the service March 16, 2008.
Hymn: For the Earth Forever Turning (No.163)
Outreach Collection (voice and violin soloist Diana Sargent)
Anthem: Two Mozart Kyrie Settings, second song
Hymn: O Young and Fearless Prophet (No. 276)
Postlude (soloist Diana Sargent)
Recordings from the service March 9, 2008.
Hymn: Enter, ReJoice, and Come In (No.361) (guest musicians Jeremy Parker and Doug Philbrook)
Outreach Collection (Jeremy and Doug)
Hymn: With Joy We Claim the Growing Light (No. 345)
Recordings from the service March 2, 2008.
Chalice Words – RE 1st and 2nd grades
Hymn: These Things Shall Be (No.138)
Conyersation with the Children and As We Leave This Friendly Place (No. 414)
Anthem: What A Wonderful World
Outreach Collection: Marguerite’s Place
Anthem: Music Spread Thy Voice Around (soloist Suellen Davidson)
Hymn: Break Not the Circle (No. 323)
Recordings from the service February 24, 2008.
Hymn: Now Is the Time Approaching (No.144)
Anthem: There’s Got To Be A Morning After
Pledge drive presentation (Mike Wilt)
The rest of the recording on 2/24 was cut off due to technical difficulties.
Recordings from the service February 17, 2008.
Hymn: Where Is Our Holy Church (No.113)
Hymn What Gift Can We Bring? (No. 404)
Hymn: Wonders Still the World Shall Witness (No. 139)
Recordings from the service February 10, 2008.
Hymn: Bring Many Names (No.23)
Anthem: Everything Possible, by Fred Small
Hymn: Now Let Us Sing (No. 368)
Recordings from the service February 3, 2008.
Prelude: Down In The Valley (Treble Choir)
Chalice Words – RE 4th grade class
Hymn: O Life That Maketh All Things New (No.12)
Coversation with the children and As We Leave This Friendly Place (No. 414)
Anthem: What Matters, written by Randy Driscoll in honor of Matthew Shepard
Outreach Collection for the Donna Purkhiser White Wing Scholarship Fund (Becky Parsons)
Anthem: If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
Hymn: Though I May Speak With Bravest Fire (No. 34)
Recordings from the service January 27, 2008.
Hymn: Bring O Morn Thy Music (No.39)
Hymn: Love Will Guide Us (No.131)
Recordings from the service January 20, 2008.
Hymn: The Morning Hangs a Signal (No.40)
Sermon: The Three Questions, adapted from Leo Tolstoy short story
Hymn: The Peace Not Past Our Understanding (No.164)
Recordings from the service January 13, 2008.
Anthem: Hope (soloist John Sanders)
Anthem: Follow the Drinking Gourd
Recordings from the service January 6, 2008.
Chalice Words (5th grade RE class)
Hymn: Wake Now, My Senses (No.298)
Conversation with the Children
Anthem: The Twelve Days After Christmas
Outreach Collection: John Sanders – Universalist Heritage Foundation
Hymn: May Nothing Evil Cross This Door (No.1)
Recordings from the service December 9, 2007.
Prelude: Youth Choir- Bridge Over Troubled Water
Hymn: All Beautiful the March of Days (No.57)
Social Justice Committee Update: David Golden
Hymn: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (No.240)
Recordings from the service December 2, 2007.
Chalice Words (6th grade class)
Conversation with the Children
Outreach Collection: Beth Bascomb, Faithfully One By One
Hymn: Come Sing A Song With Me (No.346)
Recordings from the service November 25, 2007.
Hymn: Enter, Rejoice, and Come In (No.361)
Anthem: Ric Masten song Coffee Table Dancer, played by Dan Murphy
Sermon (Steve Edington), including Ric Masten song Think of Me as Music played by Dan Murphy
Hymn: Let It Be A Dance (No.311)
Recordings from the service November 18, 2007.
Anthem (Treble Choir): Gaudeamus Hodie
Hymn: We Sing Now Together (No. 67)
Reading: The Greatest Table (Chris Parker, Steve Edington)
Anthem: Glad That I Live (Geoffrey Shaw)
Outreach Collection Intro: U.U. Action Network of New Hampshire
Anthem (Treble Choir): Dance and Turn
Anthem: Canticle of Brother Sun
Closing Song Intro (Steve Edington): Lydia Child
Closing Song: Over the River and Through the Woods (Lydia Child)
Recordings from the Veterans Day service November 11, 2007.
Hymn: We Are the Earth (No. 303)
Anthem: Tenting on the Old Camp Ground (Walter Kittridge)
Outreach Collection Intro: U.U. Action Network of New Hampshire
Words for Reflection: Laurie Goodman
Anthem: Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream
Sermon: How to Thank a Veteran
Hymn: Wonders Still the World Shall Witness (No. 139)
Recordings from the service November 4, 2007.
Chalice Words: 7th Grade R.E. Class
Hymn: In Sweet Fields of Autumn (No. 52)
A Conversation with the Children
A Service of Dedication and Naming: Katherine Merkel McGee
Anthem: Some Days You Gotta Dance
Outreach Collection Presentation: U.U. Action Network of New Hampshire (Rev. Emily Burr)
Anthem: A Time for All Things (Ecclesiastes, Chapter 3; arr. Douglas Wagner)
Sermon: You Don't Know What You've Got until It (He/She) Is Grown
Hymn: Earth Was Given as a Garden (No. 207)
Recordings from the service October 28, 2007.
Hymn: The Morning Hangs a Signal (No. 40)
Social Justice Committee Update - Intro
Social Justice Committee: Ellen Barr
Social Justice Committee: Adrian George
Social Justice Committee: Mary Ferguson
Social Justice Committee: Roy Goodman
Anthem: How Lovely Are the Messengers (Felix Mendelssohn)
Outreach Collection Intro: UUA's Association Sunday
Words for Reflection: Michael Vose
Sermon: Recalling Our Tradition with Hosea Ballou
Hymn: With Joy We Claim the Growing Light (No. 345)
Recordings from the service October 21, 2007.
Hymn: For the Earth Forever Turning (No. 40)
Happy Birthday to Andrea Lerude
Outreach Collection Intro: UUA's Association Sunday
Sermon: Does the Earth Need Us?
Hymn: Lady of the Season's Laughter (No. 51)
Recordings from our first Association Sunday service October 14, 2007.
Hymn: Bring, O Past, Your Honor (No. 290)
Anthem (Adult Choir; Jane Olsson, cello): O Music (D. Brunner)
Words for Reflection, Responsive Reading: Ellen Fisher
Anthem: Lean on Me (Bill Withers)
Presentation: UUA's Association Sunday (Rev. Steve Edington)
Growing Our Liberal Religious Movement: Laurie Goodman
Growing Our Liberal Religious Movement: Roy Goodman
Growing Our Liberal Religious Movement: Stephen Nodvin, Steve Edington
Hymn: As Tranquil Streams (No. 145)
Recordings from the service October 7, 2007.
Hymn: Wake Now My Senses (No. 298)
Anthem (Treble, Youth, and Adult Choirs): I Got a Robe (arr. Moses Hogan)
Outreach Collection Intro: Granite State Organizing Project
Words for Reflection: Harry Purkhiser
Anthem: Hope and Freedom (Don Besig)
Hymn: Blessed Spirit of My Life (No. 86)
Recordings from the Open House service September 30, 2007.
Hymn: Morning Has Broken (No. 38)
Anthem: Away from the Roll of the Sea (Allister MacGillivray)
Outreach Collection Intro: Granite State Organizing Project
Anthem: You Are the New Day (John David, arr. Peter Knight)
Hymn: Let It Be a Dance (No. 311)
Recordings from the service September 16, 2007.
Hymn: Gather the Spirit (No. 347)
Anthem: I Am But a Small Voice (arr. John Coates, Jr.)
Anthem: Linden Lea (Williams, arr. Sommervell)
Sermon: A Time for Transformation
Hymn: We Laugh We Cry (No. 354)
Recordings from the service September 9, 2007. This is our water service, most of which is too personal to post on the Internet.
Outreach Collection Intro: Chalice Lighters (John Sanders)
Recordings from the service May 27, 2007.
Hymn: For the Beauty of the Earth (No. 21)
Outreach Collection Intro: Donna Purkhiser White Wing Scholarship
Sermon: No One Dies In Vain, A Memorial Day Reflection
Hymn: Wonders Still the World Shall Witness (No. 139)
Recordings from the service May 20, 2007. Congratulations to all our R.O.P.E.S. graduates!
Hymn: Earth Was Given As a Garden (No. 207)
Outreach Collection Intro: Donna Purkhiser White Wing Scholarship
R.O.P.E.S. Program 2006-2007 (Frank Grossman)
Introducing Jenny Grossman (Deb Dubray)
Introducing Adrian McLeod (Linda Mandra)
Anthem: Fire of Committment (Jason Shelton)
Introducing Bill Earley (Jim Thorp)
Introducing Tegan Cantrell (Ellen Fisher)
Anthem: I Hope You Dance (T. Sillers and M. D. Sanders)
Introducing Katie Brodeur (Kate Messner)
Introducing Inga Dellea-Messner (Sherri Woolsey)
Thanking the R.O.P.E.S. teachers (Catharine Rehberg)
Circle Game Introduction (Steve Edington)
Closing Song: The Circle Game (words and music by Joni Mitchell)
Recordings from the service May 13, 2007. Happy Mother’s Day!
Prelude: Mama, A Rainbow -Treble Choir
Anthem: Seasons of Love (From Rent) -Youth Choir
Outreach Collection Intro: Donna Purkhiser White Wing Scholarship Fund (Cecile Bonvouloir)
Solo: When I bring to you coloure'd toys (John A. Carpenter) -Sarah Chadwick
Sermon: What is a Family: A Mothers' Day Reflection (Steve Edington)
Hymn: May Nothing Evil Cross this Door (No. 1)
Recordings from the service May 6, 2007
Hymn: Morning So Fair To See (No. 42)
A Conversation with the Children (Steve Edington)
Anthem: In the Beauty Way (Treble and Adult Choirs)
As We Leave This Friendly Place (No. 414)
Introducing a raffle to support the Cal Libby art scholarship
Outreach Collection: UUA Annual Program Fund
Anthem: Bless The Beasts and the Children (Adult Choir)
Sermon: Kurt Vonnegut RIP (Steve Edington)
Hymn: With Joy We Claim the Growing Light (No. 345)
Recordings from the service April 22, 2007
When our senior high youth group takes over the service the one thing you can count on is that it won’t be boring!
Hymn: Earth Was Given As A Garden (No. 207)
Reading: The History of Earth Day (Dan Hedges)
Spirit of Life, Youth Group Style (No. 123)
Reading: I Stood Upon A Mountain (read by Ben Dubray)
Rain Storm Introduction (Leah Nodvin)
Reading: If We Bloom (read by Magdalene Pattantyus)
Song: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (Jack Johnson)
Closing Words: Susannah Begg's Statement (read by Sarah Ward)
Recordings from the service April 15, 2007
Hymn: Come Thou Fount (No. 126)
Anthem: Shenandoah (traditional)
Outreach Collection Intro: Pastoral Care Center (Carol Connors)
Anthem: Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace (St. Francis; S. Temple, Arr. Hayes)
Sermon: Proud Moments (Steve Edington)
Hymn: 'Tis A Gift To Be Simple (No. 16)
Recordings from the service April 8, 2007
Prelude: Here Comes The Sun (Harrison, arr. Holland)
Hymn: Lo, The Earth Awakes Again (No. 61)
Treble Choir Anthem: Some Folks Do (Stephen Foster, Mary Connelly, arr. Strid)
Why I Value This Church (Sue Chadwick)
Outreach Collection: Nashua Pastoral Care Center
Anthem: Sunrise Alleluia (Houston Bright)
Sermon: The Death That Lets Life Happen (Steve Edington)
Hymn: O Day Of Light And Gladness (No. 270)
Recordings from the service April 1, 2007
Hymn: The Morning Hangs A Signal (No. 40)
A Conversation With The Children
As We Leave This Friendly Place (singing the children off to Sunday School)
Outreach Collection: The Annual Program Fund of the UUA
Why I Value This Church (Bob Sampson)
Anthem: He, Watching Over Israel (Felix Mendelssohn)
Sermon: The Life And Morals Of Jesus of Nazareth
Hymn: O Young And Fearless Prophet (No. 276)
Recordings from the service March 18, 2007. Don’t miss the Prelude, which is a funny pitch for our annual goods and services auction.
Hymn: We Lift Our Hearts (No. 355)
Anthem: Choose Something Like A Star (Robert Frost, Randall Thompson)
Outreach Collection: Harbor Homes
Reading: from Writing From The Center (Sanders)
Anthem: Dear Land Of Home (Manney, Sibelius)
Sermon: Living The Grounded Life (Steve Edington)
Hymn: Seek Not Afar For Beauty (No. 77)
Recordings from the service February 18,
2007. We are kicking off our
pledge drive for the 2007/2008 fiscal year. Harry’s presentation included
wonderful PowerPoint slides that are necessary to understand some of this
recording. I must admit hesitating
a bit before posting
Thank you to Mike Wilt (Gary Lerude)
Hymn: Where Is Our Holy Church (No. 113)
Anthem: River Of Dreams (Joel, arr. Brymer)
Introducing our pledge drive coordinator, Chip McGee (Steve Edington)
The Pledge Drive: An Inconvenient Truth with Harry Purkhiser as Al Gore
To The Seventh Generation: Our 2007-8 Pledge Drive (Chip McGee)
Sermon: The Gift Must Always Move (Steve Edington)
Hymn: Forward Through The Ages (No. 114)
Recordings from the service February 11, 2007.
Hymn: Gather The Spirit (No. 347)
Anthem: Love Knocks And Waits For Us To Hear (Damon)
Outreach Collection Intro: Ending Homelessness (Bob Keating)
Outreach Collection: Nashua Soup Kitchen and Shelter
Anthem: The Rose (McBroom, arr. Holland)
Sermon: Love Is the Doctrine of This Church (Steve Edington)
Recordings from the service February 4, 2007. We welcome our minister, Steve Edington, back from his January writing sabbatical.