JUNE 13, 2021 A Virtual Celebration of Judson Sunday School - judson memorial church
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
JUNE 13, 2021 A Virtual Celebration of Judson Sunday School
June 13, 2021
VIRTUAL KIDS’ DAY!
A Virtual Celebration of Judson Sunday School
For Your Meditation:
“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign,
even in the wizarding world.”
– from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Visual Prelude “Little Trip To Heaven” by Tom Waits
Performed by Judson Sunday School
Piano Prelude “Symphony No. 5 Theme” by Ludwig van Beethoven
(arr. by James Bastien)
Performed by Theo Lawrie
Morning Poem “Only This Morning” by Dan Gerber
Read by Charlotte Martin
In a hundred trillion years— Yet every day, every four hours
an actual number around the clock, Debbie prepares
though we can’t begin her goat’s-milk mix
to grasp it—the last traces for the orphaned filly
of our universe will be not who sucks down all three liters of it,
even a memory gratefully, it seems,
with no memory to lament it. as if it matters more
than anything in the universe—
The last dust of the last star and it does—at this moment
will not drift in the great nothing while the sun is still
out of which everything we love four hours from rising
or imagine eventually comes. on the only day that matters.
Morning Prayer “Tiny Prayer (for those who need a miracle)”
by Micah Bucey
Read by Sebastian Funderburgh
May you marvel at the facts that the sun rose this morning and that you woke up,
remembering that these everyday things were once thought of as mysterious wonders
to celebrate, and may you reframe the mundanity of your day to call you to awe, not in
a saccharine dismissal of the very real disappointment and suffering of the world, but
in an activating move to remind yourself and everyone that, if miracles like sunrises and
awakenings continue to occur, we just might be able to conjure even more possibilities
just by paying attention.
Amen
Opening Song “I Am Bound For the Promised Land”
2 - “I Am Bound For the Promised Land”
Welcome
Ancient Testimony “Exodus” excerpts
from God Is Disappointed In You
By Mark Russell, Cartoons by Shannon Wheeler
God appeared to Moses in the form of a burning bush and told him to go free his fellow
Israelites from slavery. When a flaming shrub tells you to do something, you do it.
Moses returned to Egypt, demanding the release of all the Israelite slaves. The
Pharaoh thought his radicalized grandson was just going through a phase. That if he
just held out long enough, Moses would shave off his beard and the Che Guevara poster
would come down off the wall, and everything would go back to normal.
But Moses was serious, and so was God, a point he drove home by turning the Nile River
into blood, creating swarms of frogs and giving everyone skin boils. And to raise the
stakes, Moses summoned the Angel of Death. And so, the Israelites got to leave
Egypt. God told Moses to take his people into the desert and await further instructions.
The Egyptians had made running a government look easy, but Moses quickly learned that it’s actually kind of a grind, especially when you’re leading a nation of people on what is going to be a 40-year nature hike. There was simply no way Moses could be everywhere to make sure nobody killed anyone else, stole their food, or ate something that made them sick. And even when he could catch someone in the act, there wasn’t much he could do about it. You can’t exactly put someone in jail when you’re marching ten miles a day. Moses did his best to keep order, but people kept getting sick, fights would break out and people were so fed up with the situation that they threatened to leave and go back to Egypt. For a while, it looked as if in the midst of all this crime and chaos that the tribes of Israel might simply dissolve and everyone would go their separate ways. Moses wracked his brain for ways to keep his nation of hikers together. Finally, God decided to help Moses out. He called him up to the top of Mount Sinai and gave him a bunch of stone tablets. “Be sure to tell everyone that these are coming from me,” God told him. “If they follow these laws, I’ll always be there to watch over them,” God said. “That’s the deal.” To commemorate his deal with the people of Israel, God told Moses to build the Ark of the Covenant, a gold trunk decorated with angels. Inside the trunk, they kept the Ten Commandments and some other mementos. They also built a Mercy Seat, a little seat on top of the ark so that when he came down from Heaven, God could ride around on top and kill people as they carried the ark with them. After a few days, Moses came back down the mountain with a bunch of laws. [T]hese laws, he told them, were given to him personally by God. A gasp went up from the crowd. This was serious poker. People were far more worried about disobeying God, who, unlike Moses, actually could be everywhere at once. So they cut down on cheating, robbing, and killing each other and generally cleaned up their act. The nation of hikers was saved.
Song “Don’t Fence Me In” by Cole Porter
2 - “Don’t Fence Me In” by Cole Porter
New Testimony from Holy the Firm, by Annie Dillard
Read by Lulu Fogarty
A blur of romance clings to our notions of “publicans,” “sinners,” “the poor,” “the people
in the marketplace,” “our neighbors,” as though of course God should reveal himself, if
at all, to these simple people, these Sunday School watercolor figures, who are so purely
themselves in their tattered robes, who are single in themselves, while we now are
various, complex, and full at heart. We are busy. So, I see now, were they. Who shall
ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? There is no one
but us. There is no one to send, nor a clean hand, nor a pure heart on the face of the
earth, nor in the earth, but only us, a generation comforting ourselves with the notion
that we have come at an awkward time, that our innocent fathers are all dead – as if
innocence had ever been – and our children busy and troubled, and ourselves unfit, not
yet ready, having each of us chosen wrongly, made a false start, failed, yielded to
impulse and the tangled comfort of pleasures, and grown exhausted, unable to seek the
thread, weak, and involved. But there is no one but us. There never has been. There
have been generations which remembered, and generations which forgot; there has
never been a generation of whole men and women who lived well for even one day. Yet
some have imagined well, with honesty and art, the detail of such a life, and have
described it with such grace, that we mistake vision for history, dream for description,
and fancy that life has devolved. So. You learn this studying any history at all,
especially the lives of artists and visionaries; you learn it from Emerson, who noticed
that the meanness of our days is itself worth our thought; and you learn it, fitful in
your pew, at church.
Interpreting For Our Time “The Dangling Conversation”
Offertory OFFERINGS WELCOMED! via VENMO @Judson-MemorialChurch
Text JUDSON to 44321 Visit judson.org/give
“No Surprises” by Radiohead
Performed by Owen Lawrie
Benediction “The Last Speakers of a Language” by Joseph Mills
My son asks for the cheesehonker.
I don’t get it for him right away because
I don’t know what it is. He raises his voice
“Cheesehonker!
CheeseHonker!”
When I ask, “You want the Cheesehonker?”
he becomes enraged. “No,” he yells,
“Cheesehonker!” Finally, I say, “Show me,”
and he toddles to his bedroom and points
at the rubble. I rule out anything he can reach,
but nothing else seems like a Cheesehonker,
so I start holding up objects at random.
When I get to a sparkly key ring, he grabs it
and waddles away.
That was years ago,
and now only my wife understands
when I ask where the cheesehonker is.
Just as we’re the only ones who still talk
of popcheeps and things worth two dotties.
We learned the vocabulary of our children,
and then they grew away from it, leaving us
the last speakers of a language, the curators
of a way of life that briefly flourished, then,
as the door jamb marks rose, disappeared.
Closing Song “Crazy” by Willie Nelson
2 - “Crazy” by Willie Nelson
3 - “Crazy” by Willie Nelson
4 - “Crazy” by Willie Nelson
******
MusiciansTheo Lawrie, Owen Lawrie, Henco Espag
God Is Disappointed In You Readers (in order) Oliver Batman-Mosely, Cyrus Hinman,
Esfahan Alaví, Rocco Barrick, Jo’ali Harris-Tucker, A’jani Harris-Tucker,
Phaedra Droullard, Oona Droullard, Madeleine Harvey
SpeakerAndy Frantz
Judson Sunday School Esfahan Alaví, Rocco Barrick, Ruby Barrick, Oliver Batman-
Mosely, Jeremiah Bolden, Oona Droullard, Phaedra Droullard, Sebastian Funderburgh,
Penelope Gottlieb Alston, A’jani Harris-Tucker, Jo’ali Harris-Tucker,Madeleine Harvey,
Orson Hawks-Little, Cyrus Hinman, Owen Lawrie, Theo Lawrie, Charlotte Martin, Cleo
Martin, Jahsiah Montrevil, Jamya Montrevil, Sothea Pirozzi, Scarlett Shepard,Gemma
Smith, River Smith, Javonna Washington, Jude Wolff, Mira Wolff
HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!
-Judson Sunday School
*During the Watch Party and Coffee Hour ~ Join Us via Zoom zoom.us/j/89409583117
*Heart of the Community Celebrations & Concerns listed below
Rev. Dr. Valerie H. Holly & Rev. Roy Atwood
During this time of “Connecting Community, Remotely”, our usual Agape Communion, Celebrations &
Concerns sharing, and Community Prayer time occurs in our live 11am Sunday Zoom watch party
(zoom.us/j/89409583117). All are welcome to join these weekly gatherings, but if you are unable to join,
please do take time to read over our Celebration & Concerns (listed below), or sit for a few moments in silent
reflection, or raise up a prayer for a concern or thanks. Questions, Celebrations, and Concerns may always
be sent to Rev. Valerie H. Holly at valeriehholly@judson.org..
For a daily helping of community, quiet, and sharing of Celebrations & Concerns, all are invited to our
daily 9am Meditation & Prayer Circle, where you are welcome to join as often or as seldom as you’d like.
www.judson.org/meditation.
*Community Prayer
*Coffee Hour
Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98378889530
Password: togetherPlease sit in silent reflection, or raise up a
prayer for a concern or thanks via the chat.
Weekly additions for Celebrations and
Concerns may be sent to Rev. Valerie H. Holly
at valeriehholly@judson.org.
~ CELEBRATIONS & CONCERNS ~ nycwell.cityofnewyork.us/
Congratulations to all Graduates! Stepping Upper’s! and Rising Next-Grader’s! Continued success in your academic
adventures. To all who are a part of the school community, and to all the families of our students: continued blessings to
you and the work you poured into this school year! You made it!
Lynn Denton and Charlie Kaprelian ask for your prayers as Charlie continues to fight Alzheimer’s. Thank you.
Josephine and her family appreciate your continued prayers for her dad, Willie Mac Vass, as he continues in his cancer
treatments.
~May prayers, positive energy, love and light continue to be lifted up~
All of us at Judson send strength and energy to our friend, Jean Montrevil, and all in Haiti.
The Judson Food Bank and the impact that they bring citywide in providing much-needed relief to underserved families
across our city. Many thanks to everyone for all the ways you continue to help us make an impact.
The communities that are concerned about taking the vaccine due to historical negative experiences in the hands of
medicine. Vaccine hesitancy will need conversations and sharing of our experiences to help move everyone to a place of
being able to get the vaccine when one is available to them. May we all continue to work on being safe as this need for
care is still high and impacts us all worldwide.
To our dear friends at Middle Collegiate Church, all of us at Judson send our continued love, solidarity, and prayers. As
they recover from a devastating fire and seek the support of their interfaith and community partners in renewing their
hope and rebuilding their home, please, if you can, donate to Middle at middlechurch.org/donate.
To the family of Judson community member, Vivian Hamilton, in Honduras and to all in Honduras, Nicaragua, and beyond
as they suffer the continuing effects of Hurricane Eta and Hurricane Iota.
Prayers to all who are displaced by the changes of their natural environment as Nature does what is needed.
We lift prayers for the United States of America and the future we create as a Union.
We lift up those especially in need of good energy and prayers, those navigating mental and physical health, and we shoulder these
needs together, knowing that burdens can be a bit lighter when they are carried together, that joys can be more grounded when we
celebrate them together.
We celebrate and hold in our hearts those on the front lines of this crisis, the healthcare professionals, the essential workers, the store
clerks, the postal carriers, the MTA workers, all who serve and clean and make certain that we are fed and sheltered and healthy,
especially as we enter new phases of reopening and enter into the next part of the learning in this pandemic journey.
We continue to celebrate and hold in our hearts all of the schools: administrators, teachers, support staff and aides, program facilitators,
food services, custodial, and transportation. All of the individuals that make up the school community and provide education and social-
emotional support to every child and family. To all students, parents and families, we send continued strength and light as we turn the
corner on this school year, and move towards SY21-22.
We hold those who have lost work, who have lost income, who have lost a feeling of purpose, who have lost loved ones, who fear for
their health and for their future.
We also continue to celebrate all of you, a congregation of beloved souls who continue to hold one another in astonishing, intimate, and
life-giving ways, even while we are physically apart.THIS WEEK
Welcome To Judson!
Every Morning l
@ 9am Virtual lll
@ JUDSON
Meditation & llll
Prayer Circle llll
===================================
JUSTICE. AR T. ===================================
WOR SHIP .
Sunday, June 13
No Public Events this day
**11AM JMC Virtual Sunday Service
Video Streaming available online at
judson.org/worship Judsonista Lulu Fogarty’s weekly art-
1PM Together In Faith making activity to supplement Judson
zoom.us/j/98378889530 Memorial Church Virtual Sunday
Password: together School lessons. All Ages Welcome!
1:30PM Spiritual Pride judson.org/kids
zoom.us/j/86186783348 ===================================
Dial In: +1 646 558 8656 US (New York)
Meeting ID: 861 8678 3348 Black History ===================================
is American History
Monday, June 14
judson.org/black-
No Public Events this day
history-month-2021
Tuesday, June 15 ==================================
No Public Events this day
WE’RE BACK! September 2021!
MESSAGE FROM OUR MODERATOR
Wednesday, June 16 Tickets available now
“I AM HAPPY TO HEAR FROM ANYONE BEYOND BABEL
No Public Events this day www.showclix.com/event/beyond-babel-nyc
ABOUT JUDSON! WE ARE A
Thursday, June 17 CONGREGATION-LED CHURCH, WHICH ===================================
No Public Events this day MEANS THAT THE CONGREGATION HAS Pastoral Care:
3PM Judson Bible Study THE FINAL SAY IN GOVERNANCE. THE
with Rev. Dr. Valerie H. Holly Rev. Micah Bucey at
BOARD MEMBERS ARE ELECTED FROM
micah@judson.org
Friday, June 18 THE CONGREGATION, AND REPRESENT
No Public Events this day THE CONGREGATION, SO THEY ARE
Rev. Dr. Valerie H. Holly at
EAGER TO LISTEN TO EVERYONE.”
Saturday, June 19 valeriehholly@judson.org
No Public Events this day
KEEN BERGER (MODERATOR, ‘23) 917-797-5051
KEENBERGER@GMAIL.COM
Sunday, June 20 Wellness Resources at Judson:
No Public Events this day https://www.judson.org/covid
**11AM JMC Virtual Sunday Service To subscribe to the
Video Streaming available online at
Judson Community listserv
judson.org/worship
and stay connected throughout the
===================================
week, email michelle@judson.orgYou can also read
