4004 Service of the Living Tradition
Ministry Dept, UUA

Order of Service

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Order of Service
My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
So much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those who, age after age,
perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
-Adrienne Rich

Prelude

Chorale Prelude: "O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr Frommen"
(Blessed Ye Who Live in Faith) Johannes Brahms

Welcome The Reverend David P. Hubner
Introit
"I thank you God for most this amazing" e.e. cummings/Ann Diers

Call to Worship The Reverend Dr. John H. Weston

Processional Hymn
"Rank by Rank, Again We Stand" John Huntley Skrine
Congregation rises Recast by the Reverend Carl G. Seaburg, 1990

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 beckon.
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.

Lighting of the Chalice 8 AM-James Hanson
10 AM-Eric Fisher

A Litany of Remembrance and Recognition
The Reverend Dr. Ralph Mero

Adapted from the
Reverend Ralph Norman Helverson

Revs. Weinstein & Mero

Rev. Kate Walker

Minister: We are gathered in remembrance and recognition of all ministers who seek the light of understanding, who extend the fellowship of freedom, and whose words and deeds remain as a living memorial.

Congregation: We lift up thankful hearts for all ministers who deal out to others their lives passed through the fire of thought.

We remember and recognize ministers who seek wisdom and reach across barriers of belief and doctrine, who affirm in the spirit of truth the healing hand of argument, who serve the needs of others-lift the fallen, uphold the weak, establish community, and preach the living word.

We lift up thankful hearts for all who carry on the tradition of asking questions, who go beyond false stopping places that stifle growth and weaken faith.

We remember and recognize ministers who embody goodness, embrace the love of all people, encompass differences of color and creed, age and sex, and surmount every circumstance of hobbling tradition, to push back ignorance and declare the glory of God and the human spirit.

We lift up thankful hearts for the ministry of beauty, for all who quicken our love of nature and of ourselves, who by line and color, music and ceremony, and the spoken word, help us to rejoice in life.

We remember and recognize every minister who teaches living religion, who helps us to see the limits of unexamined orthodoxies, and while standing in a particular tradition declares the religion universal, and who leads us in the dedication of ourselves to the church of all souls.

We lift up thankful hearts for the ministers who set before us examples to follow. May the work and the purpose of their calling show forth in those yet to come, the ministry they proclaim.

Welcoming the New Ministers Phyllis Daniel
The congregation is asked to hold applause until each group of ministers has been recognized.

Kenn Hurto

Rev. John Weston

Rev. David Hubner

Rev. Ellen Brandenburg

Recognition of Those Ministers The Reverend Ellen Brandenburg
Who Have Entered into
Preliminary Fellowship

Recognition of Those Ministers The Reverend David P. Hubner
Who Have Attained
Final Fellowship

Extending the The Reverend Dr. William G. Sinkford
Hand of Fellowship The Reverend Dr. Kendyl L. Gibbons
Phyllis Daniel

Recognition of Those Completing The Reverend Kenneth Gordon Hurto
Service in Ministry

Extending Appreciation and Thanks
The Reverend Dr. William G. Sinkford
Phyllis Daniel
The Reverend Dr. Kendyl L. Gibbons
The Reverend Dr. Peter S. Raible
The Reverend David P. Hubner

Offering for the
Living Tradition Fund*
The Reverend Dr. Ralph Mero

Offertory
"Of Love and Understanding" - Kenneth Patton/Betsy Jo Angebranndt

Sermon
"Only By Your Presence" The Reverend Barbara J. Pescan

Vocal Response
"Each Time/Chaque fois" Kerry-Anne Kutz

Roll Call and Prayer - The Reverend Dr. William G. Sinkford
Congregation rises

Instrumental Response
"Communion" - Alexander Shreiner

Recessional Hymn
"For All the Saints" (Adapted)- William Walsham How
Congregation remains standing

For all the saints who from their labors rest,
Who thee by faith before the world confessed,
Thy name, most holy, be forever blest: Alleluia, Alleluia!

Thou wast their rock, their shelter, and their might;
Their strength and solace in the well-fought fight;
Thou in the darkness deep their one true light: Alleluia, Alleluia!

And when the strife is fierce, the conflict long,
Steals on the ear the distant triumph-song,
And hearts are brave again, and arms are strong: Alleluia, Alleluia!

Benediction The Reverend Ellen Brandenburg

Postlude
"Postludio" - Domenico Zipoli

Dept. of Ministry, UUA

Notes on the Service

This is the fifty-seventh annual Service of the Living Tradition of the Unitarian Universalist Ministry, which recognizes those ministers who have been granted preliminary fellowship, achieved final fellowship, or completed full-time service and commemorates those ministers who died between May 22, 2001, and May 15, 2002. The service is prepared and led by the Department of Ministry of the Unitarian Universalist Association: the Reverend David P. Hubner, Acting Director of Ministry; the Reverend Ellen Brandenburg, Ministerial Education Director; the Reverend Kenneth Hurto, Acting Ministerial Development Director; the Reverend Ralph Mero, Church Staff Finances Director; and the Reverend John Weston, Ministerial Settlement Director.

The offering received today supports the Living Tradition Fund, which provides UU ministry students and ministers with scholarships, grants, and financial assistance in times of need.

Rev. Barbara Pescan

The preacher for the service is the Reverend Barbara J. Pescan, Co-minister since 1995 with the Reverend Ann E. Tyndall, of the Unitarian Church of Evanston, Illinois. She has also served the UU Society of Northern Fairfield County, West Redding, Connecticut and Beacon Unitarian Church, Oak Park, Illinois. Barbara received her B.A. from Kent State University in 1968 and an M.Div. from Starr King School for the Ministry in 1981. She is author of the 1999 UUA meditation manual Morning Watch.

Other worship leaders are:
Phyllis Daniel, Chair of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee
The Reverend Dr. William G. Sinkford, President of the Unitarian Universalist Association
The Reverend Dr. Kendyl L.Gibbons, President of the Unitarian Universalist
Ministers Association and Senior Minister of the First Unitarian Society of
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Eric Fisher

Kerry-Anne Kutz

The Reverend Dr. Peter S. Raible, President of the Unitarian Universalist Retired Ministers and Partners Association and Interim Minister, Eliot Unitarian Chapel, Kirkwood, Missouri

Representing the surviving families of ministers who have died during the past year are James Hanson, the husband of the Reverend Junella Hanson, and Eric Fisher, the son of the Reverend John Ogden Fisher. The organist is Leon Burke, Choir Director, Eliot Unitarian Chapel, Kirkwood, Missouri. Soprano soloist Kerry-Anne Kutz is Music Director and Lay Chaplain, Lakeshore Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Beaconsfield, Quebec. The accompanist is Sandra Hunt, Director of Music, Unitarian Church of Montreal.

Singers of the Living Tradition

Our choir, the Singers of the Living Tradition, is composed entirely of UU ministers and students in ministry and their family members. The choir director is the Reverend Dr. Gretchen L. Woods, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Corvallis, Oregon. The choir accompanist is the Reverend W. Donald Beaudreault, Minister, Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota, Florida.

The flaming chalice was crafted by Robert Duprey, a member of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Brockton, Massachusetts.

Ushers for the service are ministers in Preliminary Fellowship.

We are grateful to Suzanne Morgan of the UUA Publications Department for the design of this Order of Service, and to the Reverend Douglas Morgan Strong of Plano, Texas, for hall arrangements and for the flaming chalice "stained glass" window used in this service. We would also like to thank Robin Bartlett, Administrative Assistant to the Ministerial Fellowship Committee; A'Llyn Ettien, Administrative Assistant to the Director of Ministry; and Chris May, Administrator of the Ministerial Education Office, for their help in putting the service together.

A brief reception will be held for all participating ministers and guests in the Solarium and Third Foyer at the Convention Center after the service.

MINISTERS RECEIVING PRELIMINARY FELLOWSHIP

Parish
Kathryn Adele Bert
Hope Johnson
Jon K. Reid
Lori B. Crawford
Janet Boykin Johnson
Margaret J. Roberts
Catherine Cullen
Frederick T. Koyle
Thomas A. Rosiello
Jean Siegfried Darling
Susan Grace LaMar
Amy MacMillan Russell
Frances Dearman
Eugene "Guy" LaMothe
Dawn Sangrey
Nathan W. Detering
Phillip Bruce Lund
Leaf Seligman
Frances Leigh Deverell
James Howard Macomber
Sarah Christine Stewart
Mary Louise DeWolf
Beth Marshall
Robert Preston Tucker III
Janet Elizabeth Ives Ernisse
Karen J. McFarland
Felicia Mary Urbanski
Ann C. Fox
Christina M. Neilson
Georgette Irene Wonders
John E. Hickey
Jan K. Nielsen
Dana Elizabeth Worsnop

Community
Karen Broenneke
Azande Mangeango
Kathleen Riegelman
Brian P. Clougherty
Cathleen Diane Cox McCarroll
Madeleine MacNeill Sifantus
Barbara R. Kellett
Denis G. Meacham
Karen Brigid Taliesin

Ministry of Religious Education
Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley
Virginia Pavelka Luke
Lori Louise Staubitz

MINISTERS RECEIVING FINAL FELLOWSHIP

Parish
Kenneth Samuel Beldon
Paul G. Hull
Robert R.N. Ross
Karen Brammer
Alison Hyder
Samuel Schaal
Helen Christine Brownlie
Abhi P. Janamanchi
D. Michael Smith
Eric M. Cherry
Jeffrey G. Jones
Erin Elizabeth Splaine
Daniel Charles Davis
Daniel Chesney Kanter
Betty R. Stapleford
Leonard R. De Roche
Nicole C. Kirk
V. Elaine Strawn
Sharon K. Dittmar
William Leggett
Alan Curtis Taylor
Kathy Duhon
Dena McPhetres
Patricia V.M. Tummino
Marlin Gilbert
Jeanne Melis Mills
Kate R. Walker
James E. Grant
Makanah Elizabeth Morriss
Marlene R. Walker
Glenda R. Gray
Lowell R. Patton
Victoria Anne Weinstein
Georganne Greene
Wendy Luella Perkins
Vail Eliza Weller
Katherine Anne Greenleaf
Scott Gerard Prinster
Samuel (Chip) A. Wright III
Ricky Hoyt
Thomas A. Rhodes
Carole Yorke

Community
Jan Marie Carlsson-Bull
Lynn Mikula Kerr
Susan D. Videen
Carol Lana Jackson
Dale Emerson Lantz
Patricia Shelden Ward
Kathryn A. Jorgensen
Parisa Day Parsa
LaurieAnn Yeisley-Drogin

MINISTERS COMPLETING FULL-TIME MINISTRIES

Meredith U. Anderson
Victor H. Carpenter
F. Everett Morris
Sarah Barber-Braun
Richard M. Fewkes
Peter Tufts Richardson
Elizabeth Klein Benjamin
Leslie Hulme Heyboer
Robert L. Schaibly
Suzanne T. Black
Richard G. Kimball
Norma Goodwin Veridan
Michael Edward Boardman
Eugene William Kreves
Robert E. Wolf
Anne R. Buehler
Ruppert Lovely

MINISTERS DECEASED

Harold D. Buck
Donald G. Lothrop
Thomas E. Payne
John Ogden Fisher
Andrew X. Mahy
Albert Q. Perry
Junella E. Hanson
Earle T. McKinney
Charles W. Phillips
Violet A. Kochendoerfer
Joseph F. Nerad
Burchard A. Royce
Fred A. LeShane
Albert C. Niles
Hugh W. Weston

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*Editor's note: the offering for the Living Tradition Fund collected a total of $98,500 USD to support the UU ministry.

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