Worship services begin at 10:00 am
October 6, 2002
Rainbow Principles of Our Faith
First Sunday Multigenerational Service
Worship Co-Leaders: Rev. Dr. Marlene R. Walker and Rev. Nina Grey
Homily: Rev. Nina Grey
Join with us as we gather both as an intergenerational worshiping community and as the monthly Way Cool Sunday School First Sunday. Sound like two things? It's all one. Throughout the year, our exciting, participatory First Sunday Multigenerational Worship Services will focus on the principles of our faith.
October 13, 2002
The Church's Ministry: Among Us and In the World
Sermon: Rev. Nina D. Grey
Worship Co-Leader: Rev. Dr. Marlene R. Walker
What is our ministry? Who is called to it? What are the ministries we do together, as the whole church? How can we deepen and strengthen our shared ministry?
After the service, the Program Council invites us to a Soup Lunch and Party-cipation Fair. We will hear from Council chairs, see displays of committees and groups, have opportunities to learn about the parts of our church life and how we can participate creatively and well.
October 20, 2002
United Nations Sunday and The Annual
Birthday Celebration of The Chicago Children's Choir!
Homily: Rev. Nina D. Grey
Worship Co-Leader: Rev. Dr. W. David Arksey
Special Worship Music: Chicago Children's Choir
The United Nations' work for human rights and peace resonates deeply with our dreams for the world. And from its birth here at our church on a U.N. Sunday 46 years ago, the Chicago Children's Choir has always embodied such a vision. Its programs and music create bridges of understanding. Our world needs this vision now more than ever. Join us as we celebrate the U.N. and the birthday of the Chicago Children's Choir.
October 27, 2002
The Ambiguities of Prayer
Sermon: Rev. Jack Hayward
Worship Co-Leader: Rev. Dr. Marlene R. Walker
Rev. Jack Hayward, guest minister for our service this morning, writes:
Your own rose window inspired two sermons I delivered from your pulpit, the
first in November, 1962 when I was a member of your congregation and teaching
at Meadville, the second when I returned to Meadville in the spring of 1993
as "Minister in Residence." My book, published this year with a picture
of your window on the cover, is called The Rose Window: Art, Myth, and the
Religious Imagination. Its last chapter is an amalgam of those two sermons.
Its basic assumption is that religion is an ever-changing human art, not a finished
product handed down from on high.