Sunday, September 30, 2018
Order of Worship on Sunday, September 30, 2018
Worship leaders: Rev. M. Michael Morse and Sea Raven, D.Min.
Prelude – Rockin’ UCC Part I (Sea Raven, piano)
Welcome, Announcements and Introduction (Lay leader)
Call to Worship
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world
and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
–Langston Hughes, 1902 – 1967
Opening Hymn: #597 Shall We Gather at the River