September 20, 2020

• Karen Tucker-Barisano
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Susan Palmer
• Bossypants
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• improv
• improvisation
• online worship
• openness
• renewal
• Time for All Ages

This was the live online worship service of First Church Unitarian in Littleton, Massachusetts, on September 20, 2020. When you watch the video on YouTube, click on “show more”, and you will see the Order of Service. The blue time stamps for each worship element enable you to skip forward or back to any particular time in the service. This service includes an excerpt from the book “Bossypants” by Tina Fey.

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September 13, 2020

• Emily Welch
• Laura Semple
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• online worship
• Time for All Ages
• water
• Water Communion

This was our live online-only (virtual) Ingathering and Water Communion service on September 13, 2020. When you watch on YouTube, click on “show more” below to see the Order of Service and blue time stamps that allow you to move from one worship element to another.

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June 21, 2020

• Lezli Whitehouse
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Susan Palmer
• Vicki Merriam
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• farewell
• Flower Communion
• online worship
• religious education
• Time for All Ages

“Flower Communion Sunday and Farewell” to our DRE, Vicki Merriam. When you watch the video on YouTube, click on “show more” to see blue time stamps that will enable you to move forward or back to any particular worship element.

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June 14, 2020

• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Vicki Merriam
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• lgbtq
• non-binary
• online worship
• Time for All Ages
• transgender

In honor of LGBTQ Pride, my homily began to take a closer look at the gender binary, its limitations, and how we can be better allies with our transgender siblings. Former FCU minister Rev. Fred Small’s song “Everything Possible” was featured, along with “The Rhythm of Life”.

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June 7, 2020

• Laura Semple
• Lorinda Morimoto
• Lynn Courtney
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Vicki Merriam
• belonging
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• keeper of the flame
• longing
• new members
• online worship
• Time for All Ages

We welcome some new members and award the Keeper of the Flame! Also, it was the “world premiere video” for “Spirit of Life” with signing by Lorinda Morimoto.

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May 31, 2020

• Rev. Jackie Clement
• Vicki Merriam
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• making meaning
• online worship
• Time for All Ages

Rev. Jackie Clement, FCU member and retired UU minister, preaches! In times of stress or loss, in times like these, we seek equilibrium. We each have our own ways of doing that — through nature, through prayer or music or service or connection with others; through many avenues. But the one thing all of these ways share, is that they help us to make meaning. As we try to move closer to being fine, let us make meaning together.

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May 24, 2020

• Lynda Kaylor
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Vicki Merriam
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• flags
• Memorial Day
• nationalism
• online worship
• patriotism
• Time for All Ages Day

In honor of Memorial Day, I took a look at what patriotism means. And, what do flags have to do with it? If you watch on YouTube, in the description you can click on “show more”. The blue time stamps will let you move forward and back to any worship element.

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May 17, 2020

• Cheri Ezell-Vandersluis
• Dawn Moncrief
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Vicki Merriam
• Violet Malley
• A Well-Fed World
• animals
• climate crisis
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• environment
• factory farming
• Maple Farm Sanctuary
• online worship
• Time for All Ages

Lots of great surprises in this one! Click on “show more” in the description at YouTube and you will see blue time stamps the allow you to go forward and back to particular worship elements. Don’t miss the great skit (Time for All Ages)… don’t miss learning about A Well-Fed World… Don’t miss the video made just for us by Maple Farm Sanctuary. And more!

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May 10, 2020

• Lynn Courtney
• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Vicki Merriam
• The Book of Ruth
• coronavirus
• covid-19
• Mother's Day
• online worship
• parenthood
• Ruth and Naomi
• Time for All Ages

For Mother’s Day in our online-only worship, we explored “motherly love” and nurturing. After my remarks, there is a video with pictures submitted by members and friends of FCU of people who offered them motherly love, or to whom they offered such love. If you watch the video on YouTube, you can click on “show more” and use the blue time stamps to go forward (or back) to any particular worship element.

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May 3, 2020

• Rev. Lara Hoke
• Vicki Merriam
• coronavirus
• covenant
• covid-19
• Puritans
• Time for All Ages

Our online-only worship service on May 3, 2020 was “Of Covid and Covenant”. If you go to YouTube to watch, click on “show more” in the description. The time stamps (in blue) will enable you to move forward and back to any particular worship element. (Note: in the process of editing in the YouTube studio, I inadvertently deleted the Community Matters announcements by Lezli Whitehouse and the Reading of the Warrant by our Clerk, Lori Grant. I apologize! – Rev. Lara)

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