Sunday Bulletin
Celebration Service
Pentecost & Confirmation
June 8, 2025 9:30am
Prelude “Come, Oh, Come, Thou Quickening Spirit” Peeters
“Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord” Buxtehude
Introit “The Sun is on the Sea and Shore”
Welcome & Announcements
Call to Worship written by Ruby Giuliani
Let us open our hearts to God
And to our community members, who exemplify His love.
Let us sing His praise
And listen as He answers our prayers.
We come here to worship Him and show our faith is strong.
We look to Him for hope and forgiveness.
Let us thank God for all he has given us.
Hymn* “Welcome”
Unison Prayer written by Liam Stowe
God, thank you for bringing us here today for
confirmation. We thank you for the friends and family
that have brought us here today. The mentors that have
guided us on our journey and have been by our sides.
The community of the Church has been so kind and loving.
And finally, thank you for Pastor Dan, who has taught us
and helped us through this awesome journey that we
have been on. God thank you for the memories of this
church, and the many more that will come. Shine your
light through us that we might make others feel your love.
We ask all these things in your name. Amen
The Lord's Prayer Maggie King #307
Children’s Message Camille Cobaugh
Anthem “Born by the Holy Spirit’s Breath” Kreutz
The Gloria Patri* #35
Anthem “A Star Shall Rise” Felix Mendelssohn
Offering
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Offertory "Song of Ruth” Joyce Eilers
Doxology* #46
Offertory Prayer*
Baptism of Liam Stowe
Hymn “I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry” #75
Sacrament of Confirmation
Words of Introduction from Mentors
Statements of Faith from Confirmands
Confirmation Vows
Holy Communion (confirmands only)
Blessing and Presentation of the 2025 Confirmation Class
Hymn “Come Share the Lord” #408
Benediction*
Closing: “Day by Day”
Postlude Oliver Giuliani
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Calendar of Events
Monday, 6/9 Noon AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
Tuesday, 6/10 7:30 AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
Wednesday, 6/11 Noon AA meeting in Fellowship Hall
Thursday 6/12 7:00 last book study
Happy Birthday this week to:
William Steel today 6/8
Leon Bouramia, Lauren Jennings and William Spaulding on 6/9
Amy Cobaugh and Dawson Liljedahl on 6/10
Priscilla Bouchard and Michael Martin on 6/12
Jack Jennings on 6/14
Happy Anniversary this week to:
Philip and Sandra Kuhl on 6/13
Announcements
The ushers today are Lisa Nelson and Nancy Money. Thank you for helping today.
Congratulations to John and Chris DeRienzo for the birth of their first granddaughter. Congratulations to Olivia and Jeff Savarino, proud parents of Emilia Addie Savarino who was born May 29, 2025.
2025 Confirmation Class
Camille Cobaugh, Oliver Giuliani, Ruby Giuliani, Julie Anne Glowac, Maggie King, Adella Perrotti, Evie Song and Liam Stowe.
Confirmation Mentors:
Lauretta Haugh, Matt Anderson, Amy Cobaugh, Lynne von Trapp,
Maggy Dunphy, Amy Marshall, Janet Godin and Christian Cobaugh.
The June Mission Moment is Salvation Farm. More information soon.
An Update from Christian Education is on the table in the Narthex. Information on Bible Camp and 4th of July Float are also there.
Join us for a 6-week Book Study as we read The Serviceberry, May 8 through June 12. We’ll gather weekly on Thursdays in the Fellowship Hall and online from 7-8pm. The study will be cofacilitated by Eugene Bernat and Ashley Finlen Copeland. The Serviceberry, written by Robin Wall Kimmerer, an Indigenous woman and scientist, offers a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world (New York Time book review). During the study, we’ll explore themes of reciprocity and abundance in the natural world as inspiration for understanding our relationship with the environment in both a spiritual and practical sense. The book’s message will resonate with those that find solace and comfort in the beauty of creation. Interested or have questions, please email Ashley Finlen Copeland at afinlencopeland@gmail.com.
Join the Women’s Outdoor Adventure Group Thursday, June 26 at 5pm to hike into Nebraska Notch. This is a moderate, 3.7 mile (out and back), forested climb that starts at Lake Mansfield and ascends to Taylor Lodge. The trail climbs gently and will take about 2.25 hours to complete. Park at the Lake Mansfield Trout Club (don’t be put off by the private property signs.), 4400 Nebraska Valley Rd, Stowe. There is no cell service in Nebraska Valley. Hiking poles, snack, water, bug repellent, rain jacket, and head lamp are recommended. Please text Ashley Finlen Copeland at 919-323-1606 to RSVP or if you have questions.
June Green Tip
I have something different for you today: a Green Tip for your soul. I’ve been thinking about messiness and unkempt things and how nature is both unkempt and beautiful. I grew up in the South and bless your little heart if your front yard was not tidy and well kept. Flowers in the beds, pristine green lawns, hanging fern baskets on the front porch. Beautiful, yes, but healthy, no. To achieve weed free flower beds and lawns meant Roundup, synthetic fertilizers, and scheduled lawn watering. Nature has taught me a few things about the gospel of the unkempt. Take a looks at a Stowe pasture right now. The grass is a foot high, a mix of grasses (what Southerners call weeds), ferns, buttercups, and dainty wildflowers. To walk through the pasture is to walk through messiness. You might also encounter a rotting downed tree, mud and deer poop. But in this unmanicured pasture, where nature decides what is beautiful, there is a thriving ecosystem that nurtures the microbes, the pollinators with nectar, the birds with seeds, the deer with grass. And does it not also nurture us with serenity? Sometimes my soul feels a bit of a mess so I’m looking to nature to remind me that messiness serves a purpose. Messiness is where things thrive, messiness is where there is regeneration and growth.
Civil Rights interfaith trip in November: full itinerary is available on the table in the Narthax. Registration is now open.
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Musical Notes by Karen Miller
Prelude: This is Pentacost Sunday, and the prelude features two early German chorale tunes extolling the Holy Spirit. The first is "Komm' a komm, Du Geist des Legens" (Come, Oh, Come, Thou Quickening Spirit). The music was first published in the "Meiningen Gesangbuch" of 1693. It could possibly be attributed to Johann Christian Bach, composed around 1680. Belgian organist Flor Peeters (1903-1986) wrote a chorale prelude on this melody where the tune is heard most clearly phrase by phrase in the pedal line.
The second is "Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott" (Come, Holy Ghost, Our Lord and God), an old German chorale of unknown origin but appearing in print around 1524. Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) wrote a short chorale on this melody where the tune remains in the soprano line in a highly ornamented style.
Anthem: "Born by the Holy Spirit's Breath" uses a text by Timothy Dudley Smith, that highlights the joyful Feast of Pentacost. The music and choral arrangement were composed by Robert Edward Kreutz (1922-1996) who lived and worked principally in Golden, Colorado. He studied composition at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and later at the University of Denver. The number of his published and unpublished works is over 400 choral and instrumental pieces. In his own estimation his opera "Francesco" is his most important work, but his hymn "Gift of Finest Wheat" is also well-known.
The text reads:
Born by the Holy Spirit's breath, loosed from the law of sin and death, now cleared in Christ from every claim, no judgment stands against our name.
In us the Spirit makes his home that we in him may overcome; Christ's risen life, in all its powers, its all-prevailing strength, is ours.
Sons, then, and heirs of God most high, we by his Spirit "Father" cry;
that Spirit with our spirit shares to frame and breathe our wordless prayers.
One is his love, his purpose one, to form the likeness of his Son in all who, called and justified, shall reign in glory at his side.
Nor death nor life, nor powers unseen, nor height nor depth can come between; we know through peril, pain and sword, the love of God in Christ our Lord. Amen.
This is the last Sunday the choir will sing for us this summer. Thank you all.
Choir members: Michael Alexander, Mort Butler, Marylou Durett, Terry Dwyer, Janet Wilkins-Godin, Amy Marshall, Bob Marshall, David McGaughy, John Miller, Kent Mitchell, Karen Monsen, Greg Morrill, Marion Peer, Barbara Percy, Carol Peterman, Ruth Roy, Penny Shonio, Frank Springer, Kay Stephenson, Barbara Stotsenburg, Carol Van Dyke, Lynn von Trapp, Valerie Wise. Special thank you to our wonderful leader, Karen Miller.
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