{"id":8566,"date":"2025-05-01T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstuccdc.org\/?p=8566"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T17:13:00","slug":"worship-with-us-this-children-youth-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstuccdc.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/worship-with-us-this-children-youth-sunday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship with us this Children &#038; Youth Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div><span class=\"il\">Worship<\/span>\u00a0with\u00a0<span class=\"il\">us<\/span>\u00a0at 10:30 in the sanctuary or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/82573190587?pwd=N0YrK2RQZEh0aHVvNFJ5T0FScytQUT09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/j\/82573190587?pwd%3DN0YrK2RQZEh0aHVvNFJ5T0FScytQUT09&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1746192466706000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2b4LEDDDY02MTIQ41zwMFI\">click here<\/a>\u00a0to join\u00a0<span class=\"il\">us<\/span>\u00a0by Zoom for our annual service led by our children and youth under the leadership of Rev. Sam McFerran. Beatriz Saudek will offer the prelude on violin. Theo Raver, Beatrice Heming, Peter Sedgwick and Barrett McCaffrey will offer the call to\u00a0<span class=\"il\">worship<\/span>. Ryan McFerran will lead the prayer of confession and Evie Raver will provide the words of assurance. Our children and youth will sing &#8220;This Little Light of Mine&#8221; accompanied by Ulung Tanoto. Our scripture readers will be Felix Saudek, Woodrow Mills, and Simon Hendler-Voss with focus texts from Matthew 22:36-40 (love your neighbor) and Romans 12 (overcome evil with good). The message &#8220;Why I Go to Church&#8221; will be delivered by Laura Darling-LaGamma. MJ Thayer and Natalie Bucks will introduce the offering. Rev. Amanda and Rev. Sam will preside over communion, which will also include an opportunity to visit prayer stations organized by our youth. The benediction will be provided by Greta McCaffrey and Xavier Prentice. Join\u00a0<span class=\"il\">us<\/span>\u00a0as we draw our Christian Education year to a close and celebrate the faith formation of our children and youth with this joy-filled service of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">worship<\/span>!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worship\u00a0with\u00a0us\u00a0at 10:30 in the sanctuary or\u00a0click here\u00a0to join\u00a0us\u00a0by Zoom for our annual service led by our children and youth under the leadership of Rev. Sam McFerran. Beatriz Saudek will offer the prelude on violin. Theo Raver, Beatrice Heming, Peter Sedgwick and Barrett McCaffrey will offer the call to\u00a0worship. Ryan McFerran will lead the prayer of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Worship with us this Children &amp; Youth Sunday - First Congregational United Church of Christ<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstuccdc.org\/?p=8566\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Worship with us this Children &amp; Youth Sunday - First Congregational United Church of Christ\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Worship\u00a0with\u00a0us\u00a0at 10:30 in the sanctuary or\u00a0click here\u00a0to join\u00a0us\u00a0by Zoom for our annual service led by our children and youth under the leadership of Rev. 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