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This Sunday's Service
December 28, 2025 - 10:30am: Finding Hope in Choppy Waters
Rev. Dennis McCarty
We live in challenging times. Anyone who strives for a just and caring world — and engages the national news — is likely to sense a bitter taste of failure as we close out a tumultuous year. To keep up our resilience, might it help to look at success and failure in a different way? Rev. Dennis will look at success, failure, and some lessons of history as we sort out these trying times.
Rev. Dennis McCarty is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington, and author, and Minister Emeritus at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbus, Indiana.
Order of Service
Our order of service is available both here on our website and in print.Ringing of the World Bell
Greeting
Avram Primack, Worship Associate
Congregational Prelude
#361 Enter, Rejoice, and Come In
Welcome & Announcements
Dr. Stephanie Kimball, Director of Lifespan Religious Education
Land Acknowledgement
Lighting the Chalice Flame
Avram Primack
Stephanie Kimball
Time for All Ages
“The Farmer Whose Horse Ran Off” traditional Zen story
Musical Interlude
Beverly McGahey, piano
Pastoral Prayer and Meditation
Rev. Dennis McCarty
Hymn
#95 There Is More Love Somewhere
Dedication of Offering
Avram Primack
This fiscal year, 25% of our non-pledge Sunday offerings will be donated to Tandem to directly support The Postpartum Doula Equity Program and Free Perinatal Mental Health Groups for families in our community. See tandembloomington.org for more information.
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Offertory
Beverly McGahey, piano
Reading
“Inaccurate Predictions through History” from The Book of Heroic Failure by Stephen Pile
Gift of Music
“The Winner” by Shel Shiverstein
Sung by Dennis McCarty
Sermon
Finding Hope in Choppy Waters
Rev. Dennis McCarty
Closing Hymn
#1064 Blue Boat Home
Benediction
Rev. Dennis McCarty
Postlude
Beverly McGahey, piano
