2025-03 Imagination

Imagining A Post-Abolition World - Rev. Dr. Michael Tino

WorshipMar 16, 2025 - 7:45 pmMar 17, 2025 - 12:45 pm

Prelude

Glory - Common and Yolanda Adams
Anointing - Toby Nwigwe
Imagine Me - Soul Livre
Theme Video

Gathering Our Community

Welcome Video for Worship
Welcome and Chalice Lighting
Opening Music #153 - Oh, I Woke Up This Morning (African-American Spiritual) - Community Church of New York Choir (Darnell White, Director; Matt Podd, Asst. Director)

Centering Ourselves In Community

Inviting Your Sharing of Joys and Sorrows
Music for Joys and Sorrows
Prayer

Interlude

Reading: Voices of Our Incarcerated Members
Musical Interlude: None of Us Are Free (Mann/Weil/Russell) - Community Church of NY Choir

Sermon

Imagining a Post-Abolition World

Reflection Question

What do you imagine is necessary for abolition to be possible?
Reflection Music: I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free/None of Us Are Free reprise - Community Church of NY Choir

Offering

Inviting Your Generosity
Offertory - I'm Gonna Lift My Sister Up (Faya Ora Rose Touré) - First Unitarian Brooklyn Quartet (Adam Podd, Director)

Going Forth

Benediction and Chalice Extinguishing
Closing Song #155 - Circle Round for Freedom (Linda Hirschhorn) - Chancel Choir, First Unitarian Church of Oakland

Book Resource

We Do This 'Til We Free Us, by Mariame Kaba