Ginger Hill Unitarian Universalist Congregation

Order of Service

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be the Change You Want to See in the World

January 17, 2008

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"The time is always right to do what’s right."

1. Song: In The Name of Love – U2

2. Welcome and Introduction

3. Chalice Lighting: By reaching into and beyond ourselves and tapping the transcendent moral ethic of love, we shall overcome (social) evils.

-Coretta Scott King

4. Recitation of UU Principles

5. Chimes for Peace

6. Responsive Reading:

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?

Give us the Strength to Love
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?

Give us the Strength to Love
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?

Give us the Strength to Love
But conscience asks the question - is it right?

Give us the Strength to Love
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because it is right.

Give us the Strength to Love

7. Joys and Concerns

8. MLK Quotations

1. The means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
2. Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
3. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
4. To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
5. In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
6. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
7. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
8. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

9. Civil Rights March

10. Prayer:

11. Congregational reflections

12. Announcements

13. Song:

Today’s Service is led by Amy R. Walters

UUSC/UUA HAITI RELIEF FUND

Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, was devastated by a major earthquake on January 12. UUSC and the Unitarian Universalist Association have launched a joint earthquake relief fund to help the survivors. The situation is chaotic, communications systems are down, and debris impedes movement around the city. The U.N. estimates that 3.5 million people are affected and fears that the loss of life will reach into the tens of thousands.

Donations to the relief fund can be made through our website (www.uusc.org/haitiearthquake)

by mailing checks payable to

“UUSC/UUA Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.”

UUSC, P.O. Box 844001

Boston, MA 02284-4001