{"id":102,"date":"2011-09-10T19:32:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T23:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/worship-overview\/"},"modified":"2023-02-13T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:28:33","slug":"worship-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/worship-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-101 alignleft\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/chalice2.jpg\" width=\"376\" height=\"269\" border=\"0\" \/>Our worship service begins promptly at 11:00 a.m. Sundays and usually is 1-hour long. A typical worship service begins with a musical and spoken call to worship, followed by the lighting of our chalice &#8211; the symbol of Unitarian Universalism.\u00a0 Brief words of reflection are usually read as it is lit, inaugurating the start of the service.<\/p>\n<p>We sing a wide range of traditional hymns and contemporary songs. We often hear a Story for All Ages, setting a theme that can be understood at different levels by children and adults. We sometimes listen to, or share reading lines of, a poem or essay. A spoken prayer is followed by 5 minutes of silent meditation, during which the congregation is invited to come to the front of the sanctuary and light &#8220;Candles of Joy and Concern&#8221; to honor an event in their lives, or to reflect on or pray for something that is troubling.<\/p>\n<p>Our minister, Reverend Jane Bennett Smith , delivers a sermon or, occasionally, we have a guest speaker who leads a service. Sermons are usually thematic and often touch on universal themes of life, truth, and meaning in today&#8217;s world. Stories, myths, and poems, as well as scripture from a variety of world religions are often intertwined in the sermon. We close our services with music, a parting blessing, and the extinguishing of the chalice flame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our worship service begins promptly at 11:00 a.m. Sundays and usually is 1-hour long. A typical worship service begins with a musical and spoken call to worship, followed by the lighting of our chalice &#8211; the symbol of Unitarian Universalism.\u00a0 Brief words of reflection are usually read as it is lit, inaugurating the start of the service. We sing a wide range&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4288,"parent":0,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13581,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/13581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channingmc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}