{"id":134439,"date":"2020-07-12T16:16:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T22:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=134439"},"modified":"2020-07-12T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T22:23:31","slug":"2020-youth-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/2020-youth-service\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Youth Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5632\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-134439-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-07-12_Youth_Service_on_Sanctuary.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-07-12_Youth_Service_on_Sanctuary.mp3\">http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-07-12_Youth_Service_on_Sanctuary.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-07-12_Youth_Service_on_Sanctuary.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?powerpress_pinw=134439-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinuuav.org\/audio\/2020-07-12_Youth_Service_on_Sanctuary.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2020-07-12_Youth_Service_on_Sanctuary.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Text of the homilies are not available.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Senior Youth Group<br \/>July 12, 2020<br \/>First UU Church of Austin<br \/>4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756<br \/>www.austinuu.org<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We celebrate our graduating seniors as they transition to young adults and welcome our Middle School kids into High School with our annual bridging ceremony.\u00a0 Join our senior youth group as they lead worship and explore the theme of Sanctuary.<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Chalice Lighting<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Love is the spirit of this church and service is its law. This is our great covenant: to dwell together in peace, to speak the truth in love, and to help one another.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Affirming Our Mission<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">Together we nourish souls, transform lives, and do justice to build the Beloved Community.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Call to Worship<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\">WHERE WE BELONG, A DUET<br \/>Maya Angelou<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In every town and village,<br \/>In every city square,<br \/>In crowded places I searched the faces<br \/>Hoping to find Someone to care.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I read mysterious meanings In the distant stars,<br \/>Then I went to schoolrooms<br \/>And poolrooms<br \/>And half-lighted cocktail bars.<br \/>Braving dangers, Going with strangers,<br \/>I don&#8217;t even remember their names.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I was quick and breezy<br \/>And always easy<br \/>Playing romantic games.<br \/>I wined and dined a thousand exotic Joans and Janes<br \/>In dusty halls,<br \/>at debutante balls,<br \/>On lonely country lanes.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I fell in love forever,<br \/>Twice every year or so.<br \/>I wooed them sweetly,<br \/>was theirs completely,<br \/>But they always let me go.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Saying bye now, no need to try now,<br \/>You don&#8217;t have the proper charms.<br \/>Too sentimental and much too gentle<br \/>I don&#8217;t tremble in your arms.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Then you rose into my life<br \/>Like a promised sunrise.<br \/>Brightening my days with the light in your eyes.<br \/>I&#8217;ve never been so strong,<br \/>Now I&#8217;m where I belong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><b>Bridging Ceremony<\/b><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" noshade=\"noshade\" size=\"4\" width=\"300\" \/>\n<p align=\"left\">Most sermons during the past 20 years are available online through this website. Click on the index link below to find tables of all sermons for each year listed by date (newest to oldest) with topic and speaker. Click on a topic to go to that sermon.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/category\/sermons\/indexes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>SERMON INDEX<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Podcasts of this and other sermons are also available for free on iTunes. You can find them by clicking on the podcast link below or copying and pasting this link. https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/first-unitarian-universalist\/id372427776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>PODCASTS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Text of the homilies are not available. Senior Youth GroupJuly 12, 2020First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org We celebrate our graduating seniors as they transition to young adults and welcome our Middle School kids into High School with our annual bridging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19,18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-available","category-guest-speakers","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134442,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134439\/revisions\/134442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}