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Our services 
are about an hour in length and include lively music, hymns,
readings, silence for meditation, and a sermon.
Our services ordinarily incorporate the following elements:
- Prior to the service, some
people choose to light a candle to honor a joy or concern.
- Musical preludes and postludes.
- The children are with us at
the beginning of most of our services, and we enjoy a brief period of
spirited worship and a conversation which includes them.
- We light
the chalice, the symbol of our faith.
- We have a truly wonderful
choir that sings in most of our services.
- We have a time of welcome when we invite guests to stand.
- Hymns
sung by the congregation.
- Each Sunday, we read the
names of those American soldiers who have died in the war in
Iraq,
and we light a candle for peace.
- A time
of silent meditation and reflection.
- Pastoral
concerns of the congregation are shared by the worship leader, and the
congregation is given the opportunity to speak the name aloud, or call to
mind and heart, the name of someone whom we might hold in our care. A
candle is lit to honor the joys and concerns that remain silent.
- A sermon,
which frequently focuses upon contemporary themes as well as timeless
issues of life.
- We
share our gifts of generosity through the taking of an offering.
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