Sunday Service, 29 March 2026 Led by Dr. Patricia Brewerton (video and audio to follow after the event) Musical Prelude:  Theme from the Rococo Variations - Tchaikovsky arr. Paul Harris (performed by Benjie del Rosario and Andrew Robinson)        Opening Words:  ‘Justice Is Our Prayer’ by Rebekah Savage   We gather today with the sacred intention to declare that Justice is our prayer.   We affirm that Beloved Community is possible. Not here, not quite yet. The seeds have been

Sunday Service, 22 March 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall and Dr. Azita Chellappoo   Musical Prelude:   Blue Boat Home by Peter Mayer (performed by Abby Lorimier and Grace Cross)   Opening Words:  ‘The Wonders That Abound’ by David Usher and Daniel Chesney Kanter   Because we are finite, we lift up our eyes to the infinite sky, and feel wonder and awe. Because we have stumbled, we take the tender hand which beckons us to rise, and feel strength and reassurance.   Because we

Sunday Service, 15 March 2026 Led by Roy Clark   Musical Prelude:  Big Lady Moon - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (performed by Holly Redshaw and Jack Campbell)        Opening Words:  ‘We Have Come Into this Room of Hope’ by Libbie D. Stoddard   We have come into this room of hope where our hearts and minds are opened to the future.   We have come into this room of justice where we set aside our fear to name freely every oppression.   We have come into this room of love where we kno

Sunday Service, 8 March 2026 Led by Dr. Patricia Brewerton   Musical Prelude:  Miniatures for Piano Trio, No. 2, Gavotte - Frank Bridge (performed by Kiana Umali Garvey, Abby Lorimier and Andrew Robinson)        Opening Words:  ‘Here We Are Gathered’ by Patricia Shelden (adapted)   Here is where we gather in the presence of the Sacred. Here is where we gather to experience the Holy. Here is where, together, we face the unanswerable questions and acknowledge that not knowing i

Sunday Service, 1 March 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall   Musical Prelude: I Remember When – Alexis Ffrench (performed by Jack Campbell)        Opening Words:  ‘We Co-Create this Sanctuary’ by Jack Mendelsohn (adapted)   With our presence and intention we make this gathering a sanctuary:   A space of dreams and wisdom and beauty, where we come to grow, to be healed, to stretch mind and heart, to be challenged, renewed; to be helped in our own continuing struggles for meani

Sunday Service, 22 February 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall and Jasmine Cooray   Musical Prelude: A Foggy Day (Gershwin) (performed by Abby Lorimier and Andrew Robinson)        Opening Words:  ‘The Heart of Our Faith’ by Monica Jacobson-Tennessen (adapted)   What is it That calls you here That calls you onward That calls you inward That leads you homeward?   What is it That gives you the power To make that change To ask that question To take that journey?   What is it That

Sunday Service, 15 February 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall   Musical Prelude: Bellini - Vaga luna, che inargenti (performed by Holly Redshaw and Andrew Robinson)       Opening Words:  ‘Our Lives Intersect and Intertwine’ by Tania Y Márquez   It is a wonder and mystery that our paths have crossed; That in the immensity of time, in the vastness of space, we coincide here.   I am in awe at the ways in which our lives intersect and intertwine, at the beauty we create when we

Sunday Service, 8 February 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall     Musical Prelude: Ashokan Farewell (performed by Tara McCarthy, Tara Viscardi, and Jess Collins)      Opening Words:  ‘Part of Something Greater’ by Elizabeth Barish Browne    From our very first breath, we reach out.   Co-regulation is in our nature. We find our cues from the sun and the moon, from each parent and caregiver, we find our place in this great turning planet, by turning to one another, generation t

Sunday Service, 1 February 2026 Led by Rev. Sarah Tinker   Musical Prelude: Mendelssohn, Lied Ohne Worte Op. 53 No. 4 (performed by George Ireland)     Opening Words and Chalice Lighting:  ‘ Words for Candlemas’ by Tess Ward (adapted)   ‘Substance of our faith, lit in recognition Reveal yourself to us this day. Stop our feet in their daily tracks that we might not miss today in some vague hope of tomorrow. Unfold our prayers to wisdom that we might discern love’s purpose in t

Sunday Service, 25 January 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall     Musical Prelude: Purcell: Chorus of Cold People   (performed by Andrew Robinson and our Quartet of Singers)      Opening Words:  ‘The Longing for Something More’ by Gretchen Haley     Every little thing that breaks your heart is welcome here.   We'll make a space for it, give it its due time and praise, for the wanting it represents. The longing for something more, some healing hope that remains not yet.   We p

Sunday Service, 18 January 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall and the Better World Book Club   Musical Prelude: Allemande by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier   (performed by Abby Lorimier and Andrew Robinson)      Opening Words:  ‘A Place of Belonging and Caring’ by Kimberlee Anne Tomczak Carlson   It is not by chance that you arrived here today. You have been looking for something larger than yourself. Inside of you there is a yearning, a calling, a hope for more, a desire for a

Sunday Service, 11 January 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall Musical Prelude: Säg mig du lilla fogel - Laura Netzel   (performed by Holly Redshaw and Andrew Robinson)      Opening Words:  ‘We Gather Here in Search’ by Sue Ayer (adapted)   We gather here in search of answers to life’s big questions. We have come in search of understanding, in search of community. We have come in search of stillness and solace, hope and healing.   Let this be a place not only of searching, but

Sunday Service, 4 January 2026 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall   Musical Prelude: Allemande from French Suite in E-Flat Major, BWV. 815 (performed by George Ireland)     Opening Words:  ‘Our Own Way of Being Religious’ by Alex Brianson (adapted)   We gather this morning to share a particular kind of community – a community of faith in which each of us is free to quest for our own way of being religious and faithful.   We gather this morning to turn our attention to our spiritua

Sunday Service, 28 December 2025 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall   Musical Prelude: IV. Waltz (performed by Sydney Mariano, Kiana Umali Garvey, and Andrew Robinson)     Opening Words:  ‘To Pause on the Journey’ by Linda Hart   Every day is a new start, every year a beginning, or so we’d like to believe.   And, we don’t know, can’t anticipate where we will go, what will happen, what delights await, what heartbreaks will tear us open, the paths, unexpected, that open before us.  

Special Service, 24 December 2025 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall and Congregation Members     Musical Prelude: ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ / ‘The First Nowell’ (performed by Wigfield Brass)                                                                                            Opening Words:  ‘Invitation to Christmas’ by Shari Woodbury   On this eve of mystery and magic, let us enter into the Christmas story as if we were there on the holy night.   What part will we play this

Sunday Service, 21 December 2025 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall   Musical Prelude: ‘Midwinter’ – Bob Chilcott (sung by our Quartet with Andrew Robinson)   Opening Words:  ‘Rediscovering What Christmas Means’ by Christine C. Robinson (adapted)   Let us join our hearts and minds together in a contemplative spirit, as we gather once again, to rediscover what Christmas means to us.     May this quiet hour lead us to the heart of the season, which is peace.   May we breathe deeply

Sunday Service, 14 December 2025 Led by Members of the Congregation     Musical Prelude: Elgar - Salut d’Amour (performed by Georgia Dawson and George Ireland)     (LIZ) Opening Words:  ‘Welcome to this Place’ by Cathy Rion Starr   Welcome to this place of peace; May we find some moments of quiet contemplation here.   Welcome to this place of celebration; May our hearts soar with gratitude for the gift of life.   Welcome to this place of sacred love; May we gently hold all th

Sunday Service, 7 December 2025 Led by Dr. Mel Prideaux and Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall   Musical Prelude: Midnight on the Water / Wexford Carol (performed by Tara McCarthy, Jess Collins, Kathy Walton)     Opening Words (Jane):  ‘A Spacious Welcome’ by Shari Woodbury  (adapted)   Welcome, you who come in friendship, who long for genuine community... May you be graciously received here as your authentic self.   Welcome, you who come in curiosity, full of questions or simply open...

Sunday Service, 30 November 2025 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall and Dr. Azita Chellappoo      Musical Prelude: Skye Boat Song - arr. Christopher Ball (performed by Benjie del Rosario and Andrew Robinson)     Opening Words:  ‘We Come Together with Purpose’ by David Usher  (adapted)   We come together this morning, seeking a reality beyond our narrow selves; that binds us in compassion, love, and understanding to other human beings, and to the interdependent web of all living th

Sunday Service, 23 November 2025 Led by Rev. Dr. Jane Blackall and Dr. Lochlann Binney     Musical Prelude: The Blue Beyond by Howard Harrison   (performed by Abby Lorimier and Jack Campbell)     Opening Words:  ‘We Come Together Without Creed’ by Maureen Killoran (adapted)   In this free church, we come together without creed, focusing instead on our shared values of justice, equity and compassion, of mutual acceptance of our diverse ways of being, as we seek to connect ours