LEADERS BULLETIN Sayville Congregational United Church of Christ Second Sunday After Epiphany January 20, 2019 Rev. Trevor Hausske (r.) meeting with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in New York Faith is taking the first step. Even when you don t see the whole staircase. ~Dr. King The Bell is Rung Sean Prelude Imagine Words and Music by John Lennon Liturgist: Liturgist invites everyone to Call to Worship from the rear of the sanctuary: Please stand or be seated, as you wish, and join me in the call to worship:
*Call to Worship -- Responsorial LEADERS BULLETIN Leader All Leader All Leader All God created all the races and nations of the world and willed that we live together in peace and harmony. We are made to be family. There is strife in the human family; injustice abounds as racism, classism, sexism, cultural imperialism and other -isms. We are a divided people. We have been called to let justice roll down like waters. We must work passionately to bridge the gulf between us, overcome the injustices that oppress us, and restore community among us. We must be determined enough to change what we can. We must have the courage to accept what we cannot change. Above all, we must be wise enough to know the difference. Come, let us worship with these and all our prayers together. *Opening Hymn SPP #87 Wade in the Water Chorus Wade in the water, wade in the water children, Wade in the water, God s gonna trouble the water. Who s that yonder dressed in red? God s gonna trouble the water. Must be children that Moses led God s gonna trouble the water. Chorus Who s that yonder dressed in white? God s gonna trouble the water. Must be the children of the Israelites God s gonna trouble the water. Chorus Who s that yonder dressed in blue? God s gonna trouble the water. Must be the children now, let them through God s gonna trouble the water. Chorus Liturgist and Ray begin procession with the choir at the second verse of the opening hymn. Liturgist and Ray proceed to the chancel, choir to the choir section. Liturgist Moves to the lectern following the hymn: Please be seated and join me in offering our Unison Prayer together. 2
Unison Prayer Dr. King had a dream. We continue that vision, as we pray. We pray that the ideals of justice and the belief that all are created equal in the eyes of God become personal beliefs for each one of us. We pray that a day will come when all races and nations will sit as siblings, finding ways to transform their differences into assets. And, we pray that today, in the real world of this moment and time, we, too have a dream to make a difference in resisting racial injustice in all the ways and places we find it, even when we are surprised to find it in ourselves. Liturgist Friends, please consider these words and your own prayers in a moment of silence. Liturgist - Liturgist is seated at the end of the Unison Prayer - A moment of silence follows. - When ready, Ray moves to the lectern: Ray Ray Assurance of God s Love *Passing of the Peace Liturgist waits for Ray to return to her seat before beginning the reading Liturgist Amos 5:21-24 I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the offerings of well-being of your fatted animals I will not look upon. Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps. But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. Sean/Choir Musical Praise Precious Lord, Take My Hand Arranged by Roy Ringwald 3
Liturgist Liturgist: All: Liturgist: All: Liturgist: All: A Covenant Prayer of Recommitment to Justice O God, who has created your children to be free, we attest in word and deed that you are our God and we are your people. From our earliest days as the people whom you intend to be free, O God, you have called us forth, from self- seeking bondage, comfort, complacency, and complaint, to freeing and redeeming action for justice everywhere in the world. You are our freeing God, and we would be your free and freeing people. O God of Exodus and the Burning Bush, of the Prophets and of Jesus, we hear your powerful calling to be your servants in the service of all those who are oppressed. At every turn we hear your voice in the cries of the poor, the hungry, the imprisoned, and the broken, for you made yourself one with those who seek justice, freedom, and peace. We share a vision, a promise, and a yearning for the day of your reign, O God. You are our servant God, and we would be your serving people. O God, Our Sustainer, search our hearts and reveal to us our wrongdoings, all the ways that we contribute to injustice and to self-destroying bondage. Give us deep courage to find the true path of your way, ready to give our very selves as living sacrifices for your will. We have heard your calling. Hear us now as we make our pledge. You are our God and we are your people. We pledge ourselves now to pursue relentlessly that living, breathing justice which transforms persons and peoples. To your will for justice we recommit ourselves and pledge ourselves, our funds, our actions. In all these ways and more - we pray. Amen. Ray Provocation A moment for reflection All *Hymn NCH #571 O God of Love, O God of Peace Liturgist Prayer for Others and Ourselves Now, we invite you to enter into a time of prayer and, if you wish, to share your joys and concerns as I come to you with the microphone. We also invite you to write your joys and concerns on one of the prayer cards you will find the pew and placing it in the collection basket during the offertory. May we hear your joys and concerns? Ray Let us pray the prayer Jesus taught the disciples to pray. 4
Sean/Choir Musical Praise We Shall Overcome Arranged by Roy Ringwald Liturgist Invitation to Give Thank you for your generosity in helping us to share God's love for all. We are grateful for all the ways you participate in the work of this ministry, and more than anything, we are most grateful that you are here. We welcome your offerings at this time and invite you to place your prayer and information cards in the basket. Sean All Offertory *Doxology We praise thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator; in grateful devotion, our tribute we bring. We lay it before thee, we come and adore thee, We bless thy holy name, glad praises we sing. Amen. All *Closing Hymn NCH #593 Lift Every Voice and Sing Ray Ray Sean/Choir Announcements Benediction and Sending Forth Choral blessing The Bell is Rung Sean Postlude The Times They Are A Changin' Words and Music by Bob Dylan 5
On the Journey with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Source: The King Institute, Stanford University 1929 15 January: Michael King, later known as Martin Luther King, Jr., is born at 501 Auburn Ave. in Atlanta, Georgia. 1941 Summer: The King family -- Martin Luther King, Sr. (Daddy King), Alberta Williams King, Willie Christine King, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Alfred Daniel Williams King (known as A. D. King) -- moves from 501 Auburn Avenue to 193 Boulevard in Atlanta. 1944 20 September: King begins his freshman year at Morehouse College in Atlanta. 1946 6 August: The Atlanta Constitution publishes King s letter to the editor stating that black people "are entitled to the basic rights and opportunities of American citizens." 1948 25 February: King is ordained and appointed assistant pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. 8 June : King receives his bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Morehouse College. 14 September: King begins his studies at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. 1951 6-8 May : King graduates from Crozer with a bachelor of divinity degree, delivering the valedictory address at commencement.13 September: King begins his graduate studies in systematic theology at Boston University. 1953 18 June: King and Coretta Scott are married at the Scott home near Marion, Alabama. 1954 1 September: King begins his pastorate at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. 1955 5 June: King is awarded his doctorate in systematic theology from Boston University. 17 November: Yolanda Denise King, the Kings first child, is born. 1 December: Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to vacate her seat and move to the rear of a city bus in Montgomery to make way for a white passenger. Jo Ann Robinson and other Women s Political Council members mimeograph thousands of leaflets calling for a one-day boycott of the city s buses on Monday, 5 December. 5 December: At a mass meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) is formed. King becomes its president. 6
1956 27 January: According to King s later account in Stride Toward Freedom, he receives a threatening phone call late in the evening, prompting a spiritual revelation that fills him with strength to carry on in spite of persecution. 30 January: At 9:15 p.m., while King speaks at a mass meeting, his home is bombed. His wife and daughter are not injured. Later King addresses an angry crowd that gathers outside the house, pleading for nonviolence. 13 November: The U.S. Supreme Court affirms the lower court opinion in Browder v. Gayle declaring Montgomery and Alabama bus segregation laws unconstitutional. 21 December: Montgomery City Lines resumes full service on all routes. King is among the first passengers to ride the buses in an integrated fashion. 1957 10-11 January: Southern black ministers meet in Atlanta to share strategies in the fight against segregation. King is named chairman of the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration (later known as the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, SCLC). 18 February: King appears on the cover of Time magazine. 6 March: King attends the independence celebrations of the new nation of Ghana in West Africa and meets with Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. 17 May: At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., King delivers his first national address, "Give Us The Ballot," at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. 13 June: King and Ralph D. Abernathy meet with Vice President Richard M. Nixon and issue a statement on their meeting. 23 October: Coretta King gives birth to their second child, Martin, III. 1958 23 June: King and other civil rights leaders meet with President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington. 17 September: King s first book Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story is published. 20 September: During a book signing at Blumstein s Department Store in Harlem, New York, King is stabbed by Izola Ware Curry. He is rushed to Harlem Hospital where a team of doctors successfully remove a seven-inch letter opener from his chest. 1959 3 February: King embarks on a month-long visit to India where he meets with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and many of Gandhi s followers. 1960 1 February: King moves from Montgomery to Atlanta to devote more time to SCLC and the freedom struggle. He becomes assistant pastor to his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church. 25-28 May: King is found not guilty of tax fraud by a white jury in Montgomery. 23 June: King meets privately in New York with Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy. 19 October: King is arrested during a sit-in demonstration at Rich s department store in Atlanta. He is sentenced to four months hard labor for violating a suspended sentence he received for a 1956 traffic violation. He is released on $2000 bond on 27 October. 7
1961 31 January: Dexter Scott, King s third child, is born. 21 May: After the initial group of Freedom Riders seeking to integrate bus terminals are assaulted in Alabama, King addresses a mass rally at a mob-besieged Montgomery church. 16 October: King meets with President John F. Kennedy and urges him to issue a second Emancipation Proclamation to eliminate racial segregation. 16 December: King, Ralph Abernathy, Albany Movement president William G. Anderson, and other protesters are arrested by Laurie Pritchett during a campaign in Albany, Georgia. 1962 27 July-10 August: King is arrested at an Albany, Georgia prayer vigil and jailed. After spending two weeks in jail, King is released. 28 September: During the closing session of the SCLC conference in Birmingham, Alabama, a member of the American Nazi Party assaults King, striking him twice in the face. 1963 28 March: Bernice Albertine, King s fourth child, is born. 16 April: Responding to eight Jewish and Christian clergymen s advice that African Americans wait patiently for justice, King pens his "Letter from Birmingham Jail." King and Abernathy were arrested on 12 April and released on 19 April. 7 May: Conflict in Birmingham reaches its peak when high-pressure fire hoses force demonstrators from the business district. In addition to hoses, Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor employs dogs, clubs, and cattle prods to disperse four thousand demonstrators in downtown Birmingham. 5 June: Strength to Love, King's book of sermons, is published. 28 August: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom attracts more than two hundred thousand demonstrators to the Lincoln Memorial. Organized by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, the march is supported by all major civil rights organizations as well as by many labor and religious groups. King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech. After the march, King and other civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy and Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House. 18 September: King delivers the eulogy at the funerals of Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, and Cynthia Dianne Wesley, three of the four children that were killed during the 15 September bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. Carole Robertson, the fourth victim, was buried in a separate ceremony. 10 October: U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy authorizes the FBI to wiretap King s home phone. 1964 3 January: King is named "Man of the Year" by Time Magazine. 18 January: President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with King, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, and James Farmer and seeks support for his War on Poverty initiative. 9 February: Robert Hayling, leader of the movement in St. Augustine, Florida, invites King and SCLC to join the struggle. 26 March: King meets Malcolm X in Washington, D.C. for the first and only time. June: King's book Why We Can t Wait is published. 8
11 June: King is arrested and jailed for demanding service at a white-only restaurant in St. Augustine, Florida. 20 July: King and SCLC staff launch a People-to-People tour of Mississippi to assist the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in the Mississippi Freedom Summer campaign. 18 November: After King criticizes the FBI s failure to protect civil rights workers, the agency s director J. Edgar Hoover denounces King as "the most notorious liar in the country." A week later he states that SCLC is "spearheaded by Communists and moral degenerates." 1 December: King meets with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover at the Justice Department. 10 December: King receives the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway. He declares that "every penny" of the $54,000 award will be used in the ongoing civil rights struggle. 1965 The King family moves to their new home at 234 Sunset Avenue in Atlanta. 7 March: In an event that will become known as "Bloody Sunday," voting rights marchers are beaten at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama as they attempt to march to Montgomery. 17-25 March: King, James Forman, and John Lewis lead civil rights marchers from Selma to Montgomery after a U.S. District judge upholds the right of demonstrators to conduct an orderly march. 12 August: King publicly opposes the Vietnam War at a mass rally at the Ninth Annual Convention of SCLC in Birmingham. 1966 26 January: King and his wife move into an apartment at 1550 South Hamlin Avenue in Chicago to draw attention to the city's poor housing conditions. 23 February: In Chicago, King meets Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. 7 June: King, Floyd McKissick of CORE, and Stokely Carmichael of SNCC resume James Meredith s "March Against Fear" from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi, after Meredith was shot and wounded near Memphis. 1967 4 April: King delivers "Beyond Vietnam" to a gathering of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam at Riverside Church in New York City. He demands that the U.S. take new initiatives to end the war. June: King s book Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? is published. 4 December: King publicly reveals his plans to organize a mass civil disobedience campaign, the Poor People's Campaign, in Washington, D.C., to force the government to end poverty. 1968 28 March: King leads a march of six thousand protesters in support of striking sanitation workers in Memphis. The march descends into violence and looting, and King is rushed from the scene. 3 April: King returns to Memphis, determined to lead a peaceful march. During an evening rally at Mason Temple in Memphis, King delivers his final speech, "I ve Been to the Mountaintop." 4 April: King is shot and killed while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. 9 April: King is buried in Atlanta. 9
Announcements! Please join us for Talkback following today s services! Can you help? We received a call from a senior citizen who lives in Sayville who needs a bit of help. She's looking for transportation to doctor's appointments, the grocery store, etc. from time to time. Please call the church office if you or anyone you know is interested. Thank you. Greater Sayville Food Pantry: Every month The Greater Sayville Food Pantry provides food, information, referral and support services to approximately 150 individuals and families in need in Oakdale, Sayville, W. Sayville, Bayport, Blue Point and Bohemia. Food donations are always needed and welcomed (no animal food, please). The Greater Sayville Food Pantry at 47 Gillette Ave., Sayville, NY 11782 Phone: (631) 244-8375 Open Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 9:30am- 12:30pm or bring donations to Sunday Services! Prayer Shawl Ministry - Thursdays If you have any interest in knitting or learning to knit - this is for you! And, we can use as many knitters as possible to keep up with the need for prayer shawls. Contact Sue Lanchantin or see Ray for more information. We'd love to have you join us! Thank you to all who knit and love and laugh for others! Join us! You are invited to share in the ministry and mission of our church by: Signing up for leadership responsibilities on Sunday, continuing to provide food in support of Sayville Food Pantry, volunteering to run our slides and video each Sunday, joining the choir, leading a children's message, volunteering for Sharing a Meal, participate in our Prayer Shawl Group, attend Bible Jam... And there are more ways your help would be welcome. Looking for a chance to become involved and serve? Just let us know! Stop & Shop Cards are available at coffee hour each week. They make great gifts and are great way to purchase your groceries while supporting Sayville Congregational United Church of Christ. Newsletters: Are you receiving our weekly newsletters: echimes and Justice Chimes Newsletters? Let us know: ray@sayvilleucc.org. echimestv.com! You can watch our service live or afterwards by going this link: www.echimestv.com. 10
Calendar Bible Jam 2019 Tuesdays at 10:30 AM and 7:00 PM (V) Choir Practice Wednesdays at 6:15 PM 7:30 PM (V) Choir Practice Week of Jan 20 th ONLY Thursday, January 24 th at 6:15 PM (V) Prayer Shawl Ministry Thursdays at 10:00 AM (V) Senior Exercise Tuesdays at 9:00 A.M.; Thursdays at 12:15 P.M. (V) Congregational Leadership & Life Meetings Commissioning Sunday Sunday, January 27 th Full Board Meeting Monday, January 28 th at 7 PM (V) Trustees Meeting for Jan Feb Monday, February 4 th at 7 PM (V) Affiliates Sharing a Meal Inishfree School of Irish Dance Recovery Meetings Mondays 7:30 PM Tuesdays 7:30 PM Wednesdays 7:30 PM Thursdays 6:45 PM Saturdays 11:00 AM Mondays through Thursdays at 5:30 P.M. (FH) Fridays at 3:00 P.M. (FH) NA (FH) CODA (V) AA (FH) and SCA (L) NARANON (V) NA Serenity in Sayville (FH) Be sure to visit our website at www.sayvilleucc.org and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/sayvilleucc Remember to leave a comment and "Like Us" on Facebook! 11
Sayville Congregational United Church of Christ Thank you for joining us today. For more than a century and a half, Sayville's Congregational Church has served families on the South Shore and been a voice for the progressive Protestant tradition. A member of the United Church of Christ since it was established in 1957, today we continue to celebrate God's love, to speak for the oppressed, and to welcome those seeking a spiritual home. To learn about membership, please speak with any deacon. Today s Worship Leadership Liturgist - Hank Maust Music Director - Sean Patrick Cameron Greeter/Ushers - Jean Gill and Hilda Baeza Hospitality - Prayer Shawl Ministry Building Close-up - Karen Maust Projectionist Team - Open for Help Everyone can sign up. We will help you know what to do! We invite you to be Sunday Stewards! You can do it! J Please contact Heather in the office, Sue Lanchantin, or see the calendars in the Vestry hallway to get signed up! Sayville Congregational United Church of Christ Middle Road, Sayville, NY 11782 churchadmin@sayvilleucc.org www.sayvilleucc.org; www.facebook.com/sayvilleucc Heather Corcoran, Church Administrator; echimes Editor Ray Bagnuolo, Pastor ray@sayvilleucc.org -- (Cell/Text) Thank you for being with us today. Peace. Shalom. Salaam. For the ways of peace are many. Namaste Please contact Heather if you have questions or need any additional help. 12