GATHERING

• Prelude Niggun (Wordless Melody)     by Riccardo Moretti
       Carl Schlaikjer, oboe
• Ringing the Bell     Tom Hogan
• Welcome     Rev. John Marsh
• Lighting the Chalice     Andrea Winslow
• Call to Worship #649     From Generation to Generation
• Singing #76     For Flowers That Bloom about Our Feet
• Moment of Greeting

THE MORNING OFFERING

• Arabeske     by Robert Schumann

FLOWER COMMUNION

• Arch of Love     We Will Rock You      by Queen
• Introduction     Rev. John Marsh
• Reading #724     Consecration of the Flowers (in unison)
• Children’s Recessional #414     As We Leave This Friendly Place

COMING OF AGE RECOGNITION

• Introduction Tina Schultz, Director of Religious Education
• Credo Sharing
• Anthem      Dirait-on from Les Chansons Roses     by Morten Lauridsen
       Text by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Credo Sharing
• Singing #331     Life is the Greatest Gift of All
• Presentation of Gifts
• Congregational Prayer
• Student Recessional

CLOSING

• Singing #301     Touch the Earth
• Benediction     Jim Benn
       You are invited to join hands for our Benediction
• May faith in the Spirit of Life
  Hope for the community of Earth
  And love of the sacred in one another
  Be ours now and in all the days to come.
• Postlude     Erev Shel Shoshanim      by Yosef Hadar
       Text by Israeli poet Moshe Dor
  

Congregational Prayer

• One: We give thanks for this spiritual community, where children can grow and come of age.
• All: We give thanks for the gift of all children in the life of our congregation.
• One: We give special thanks for the youth who are here with us today,
  who have grown among us and have come of age.
• All: May they continue to grow into the fullness of their being,
  Ever deepening their connection to the mystery and wonder of life.
• One: May they know, when their lives are difficult that their church is never far away,
  that there are people here who care deeply about them.
• All: That there are values here passed along through the generations,
  to give them direction and confidence when they need it most.
• One: In this moment of celebration we are each renewed,
• All: In the sacred ties that bind young and old together in an interconnected web of love.
  Amen and blessed be.