Weekly Worship

3-8-26 https://vimeo.com/1169339596 This stream and recording is for the March 8, 2026 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Sean: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World and Proverbs 2. The hymns are VU 371 “Open My Eyes,” and VU 642 “Be Thou My Vision.” Other music includes “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name,” “Water Our Lives,” “Be Thou My Vision,” and “Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken.”

https://vimeo.com/1167151247 This stream and recording is for the March 1, 2026 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Life After Doom and Psalm 19. The hymns are VU 389 “God is Here,” and VU 660 “How Firm a Foundation.” Other music includes “And Can It Be?,” “Thank You for the Valleys,” “The Love of God,” “Blessed Assurance,” and “How Firm a Foundation.”

https://vimeo.com/1166173814 This stream and recording is for the February 22, 2026 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of The Power of Wonder and Psalms 107 and 139. The hymns are VU 333 “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling,” and VU 238 “How Great Thou Art.” Other music includes “Love Divine, All Love Excelling,” “Nothing Left to Say,” “The King of Love My Shepherd Is,” and “Love Lifted Me.”

https://vimeo.com/1163041695 This stream and recording is for the February 15, 2026 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of 1 Corinthians 1 and Thich Nhat Hanh. The hymns are VU 232 “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee,” VU 372 “Though I May Speak,” and VU 595 “We Are Pilgrims (Servant Song).” Other music includes “It Is Well With My Soul,” “Alma del core,” “Caro Mio Ben,” and “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee.”

https://vimeo.com/1160814530 This stream and recording is for the February 8, 2026 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Matthew 5 and “Our Highest Aspiration.” The hymns are VU 291 “All Things Bright and Beautiful,” and VU 87 “I Am the Light of the World.” Other music includes “Just As I Am,” “Beauty All Around Us,” “Our World, One Neighborhood,” “We Gather Together,” and “Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ.”

https://vimeo.com/1158165291 This stream and recording is for the February 1, 2026 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Matthew 5 and “Beatitudes for the Weird.” The hymns are VU “Arise, Your Light Is Come,” and VU 468 “Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ.” Other music includes “Take My Gifts,” “The Beatitudes,” “Just as I Am. Without One Plea,” “God Himself Is Present,” and “What God Ordains Is Always Good.”

https://vimeo.com/1155733455 This stream and recording is for the January 25, 2026 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Matthew 4 and “I Follow the Religion of Love” by Andrew Harvey, Eryk Hanut. The hymns are VU 567 “Will You Come and Follow Me,” and VU 578 “As a Fire is Meant for Burning.” Other music includes “1Es Ist Ein Ros / A Great and Mighty Wonder,” “Commit Thy Ways, O Pilgrim,” “We Cannot Own the Sunlit Sky,” “Light of the World,” and “Auf, A

https://vimeo.com/1153371357 This stream and recording is for the January 18, 2026 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Micah 6:8 and “The Man, The Dream, The Movement.” The hymns are “There Is More Love Somewhere,” “We Shall Not Be Moved,” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Other music includes “Peace in the Valley,” “Hush, Hush,” “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” and “I Am Blessed.”

https://vimeo.com/1151377528 This stream and recording is for the January 11, 2026 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Matthew 3 and “Mending the World: Spiritual Help for Ourselves and Our Planet” by Bruce G Epperly and Lewis D Solomon. The hymns are VU 565 “Love, Who Made Me in Your Likeness,” and VU 365 “Jesus Loves Me.” Other music includes “I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light,” “The Lord is My Light,” “Eternal Light,” “This Little Light of Min

This stream and recording is for the January 4, 2026 service of Hope UCC entitled What Child Is This? Beyond the Lullaby. https://vimeo.com/1149885062 The message is based on the readings of Matthew 2. The hymns are VU 91 “The First Noel,” and VU 89 “From a Distant Home.” Other music includes “The Little Drummer Boy,” “Joyous Baroque,” “Coventry Carol,” “We Three Kings,” “The First Noel,” and “Auld Lang Syne.”

This stream and recording is for the December 28, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled “Happy Kwanzaa.” https://vimeo.com/1149248384 The message from Ajamou Butler is based on the readings of Colossians 3. The hymns are VU 646 “We Are Marching (Siyahamba),” and “This Little Light of Mine.” The video “A Kwanzaa Song” by Lovely Hoffman. Other music includes “The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy,” “Sweet Little Jesus Boy,” the video “A Kwanzaa Song” by Lovely Hoffman, “7 Days of Kwanzaa,

https://vimeo.com/1146365133 This stream and recording is for the December 21, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled What Child Is This? Beyond the Lullaby “Enthroned by Love.” The message is based on the readings of Matthew 1. The hymns are VU 31 “O Lord, How Shall I Meet You,” and “Love Has Come.” Other music includes “When Christmas Comes to Town,” “Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine,” and “Let There Be Peace on Earth.”

https://vimeo.com/1144291195 This stream and recording is for the December 14, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled Christmas Pageant “Magnificat.” The message is based on the readings of Mary Runs to Share the Good News and “Mary’s Song.” The hymns are “Awake! Awake, and Greet the New Morn,” VU 59 “Joy to the World,” and VU 697 “O for a World.” Other music includes “Holly and the Ivy,” “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming,” “Jingle Bells,” “Band on the Housetop,” “Breath of Heaven,” a

https://vimeo.com/1141843706 This stream and recording is for the December 7, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled What Child Is This? Beyond the Lullaby “The Silent Word.” The message is based on the readings of Luke 1. The hymns are “Star Child,” and “Let There Be Peace on Earth.” Other music includes “Sussex Carol,” “Light a Candle,” “Away in a Manger,” “Hallelujah,” “Let There Be Peace on Earth,” and “Deck the Halls.”

https://vimeo.com/1139827481 This stream and recording is for the November 30, 2025 service of Hope UCC entitled What Child is This? Beyond the Lullaby "King of Kings". The message is based on the readings of Lamentations 3 and Luke 2. The hymns are VU 334 “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name,” and VU 335 “At the Name of Jesus.” Other music includes “O Come, O Come Immanuel,” “Be a Candle of Hope,” “Almost There,” and “See Amid the WInter’s Snow.”

https://vimeo.com/1137446465 This stream and recording is for the November 23, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message, entitled “I Agree to Give and Receive Thanks,” is based on the readings of Luke 17 and “‘G’ is for Gratitude” by Patricia Adams Farmer. The hymns areVU 227 “For the Fruit of All Creation,” and VU 236 “Now Thank we All Our God.” Other music includes “Let All Things Now Living,” “For the Autumn Sky,” “Simple Gifts,” “For the Beauty of the Earth,” and “For the Fr

https://vimeo.com/1135089854 This stream and recording is for the November 16, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message, entitled “I Agree to Look for Blessings in Disguise,” is based on the readings of Isaiah 11 and Scott Russell Sanders. The hymns are VU 288 “Great is Thy Faithfulness,” and VU 559 “Come, O, Fount of Every Blessing.” Other music includes “Branson de la Torche,” “Musette,” and “Trumpet Tune” by Michael Praetorius.

https://vimeo.com/1132939507 This stream and recording is for the November 9, 2025 service of Hope UCC. Jeff Ottum supplies the Stewardship Moment. The message is based on the readings of Philippians 4 and Geri Larkin. The hymns are VU 352 “I Danced in the Morning,” VU 266 “Amazing Grace,” VU 238 “How Great Thou Art,” and “We Are One in the Spirit.” Other music includes “Morning Has Broken,” “Spirit of Gentleness,” “Wind Beneath My Wings,” “How Can I Keep From Singing?” “On

https://vimeo.com/1130682037 This stream and recording is for the November 2, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of Ephesians 4 and “O God of Truth.” Allison Haus provides the Stewardship Moment. The hymns are VU 706 “Give Thanks for Life,” VU 479 “Draw Us in the Spirit’s Tether,” and 376 “God, We Thank You for Our People.” Other music includes “Thine Forever, God of Love, Come, My Soul, With Every Care,” “For Everyone Born,” “Grand Peace, We Pray

https://vimeo.com/1128642990 This stream and recording is for the October 26, 2025 service of Hope UCC. The message is based on the readings of A Jewish Prayer, A Thought to Contemplate from Angelus Silesius, Spiritual Advice from James Conlon, A Spiritual Understanding of Diversity by Melannie Svoboda, A Buddhist Practice by Jean Smith, and Luke 14. The hymns are UM 2236 Gather Us In, and VU 606 “In Christ There Is No East or West.” Other music includes “Prelude to the Dance