DHB MLK Service
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North Shore

Unitarian Church

Deerfield, IL

 

 

heart chalice

 

The Selma March, Dr. King and my Dad

 

Duncan Brown

 

August 29, 2010

 

 

 

Order of Service

 

Welcome and Announcements           John Bishop

 

Chalice Lighting

 

Prelude                                               Abraham, Martin, and John

Dick Holler

 

Opening Words                                  Duncan Brown

 

*Hymn #199                                       Precious Lord, Take My Hand

 

*Responsive Reading                        Hope for Tomorrow

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

We have known humiliation, we have known abusive language.

We have been plunged into the abyss of oppression,

And we have decided to rise up,

Only with the weapon of protest.

It is one of the greatest glories of America that we have a right to protest.

If we are arrested every day,

If we are exploited every day,

If we are trampled over every day,

Don’t ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them.

We must use the weapon of love. We must have compassion and understanding

for those who hate us. Love, compassion, understanding.

We must realize so many people are taught to hate us;

That they are not totally responsible for their hate.

We must use the weapon of love. We must have compassion and understanding

for those who hate us. For we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the

threshold of a new dawn.

We must use the weapon of love.

Love, compassion, understanding.

 

Joys and Concerns/Wheel of Life

This is a time for sharing significant personal events. Please be brief.

 

Sung Response #123                          Spirit of Life

 

Carolyn McDade

Spirit of Life, come unto me.

Sing in my heart all the stirrings of compassion.

Blow in the wind, rise in the sea;

Move in the hand, giving life the shape of justice.

Roots hold me close; wings set me free;

Spirit of Life, come to me, come to me.

 

Reading                                               Setting the Scene: the Selma to Montgomery Marches

Duncan Brown

 

Meditation and Prayer                        Duncan Brown

 

Offertory                                             Hear My Prayer

Moses Hogan

(April 2001, M.U.M. Chamber Singers, Fairfield, IA)

 

Sermon                                                The Selma March, Dr. King and my Dad

Duncan Brown

 

*Hymn #169                                       We Shall Overcome

 

*Closing Words                                  Duncan Brown

 

Postlude                                              MLK

U2

Duncan Brown, solo

 

*Indicates that the congregation will please stand.

 

Today's guest, former NSUC member Duncan Brown, is a fourth-generation UU

and great-grandson of noted Unitarian minister John Haynes Holmes. Duncan is a

writer and editor, and teaches the Transcendental Meditation program with his wife,

Dr. Carla Brown, from their home in Hyde Park.

 

Thanks to NSUC members Susan McCracken (piano and synthesizer) and Stan
McCracken (bass and guitar) for providing music for today's service.