"How Shall We Mend You, Sweet Soul? -- UUSE Virtual Worship, November 15, 2026

Gathering Music (Mary Bopp and Leah Coloff)

Welcome (Rev. Josh Pawelek)

Centering

Prelude

"How Shall We Mend You?"

Leah Coloff, vocal

Mary Bopp, piano

Chalice Lighting and Opening Words

"Mending"

by the Rev. Nancy Shaffer

Opening Hymn

#1002 "Comfort Me"

by Mimi Bornstein

Comfort me, comfort me,

comfort me, oh my soul.

Comfort me, comfort me,

comfort me, oh my soul.

Sing with me, sing with me...

Speak for me, speak for me...

Dance with me, dance with me...

Comfort me, comfort me...

Time for All Ages

Musical Meditation

Announcements

Pulpit Editorial

The 2026 UUSE Building Reserve Campaign

Carrie Kocher

Joys and Concerns

Musical Meditation

Offering

The recipient of our November community outreach offering is Manchester Senior, Adult, and Family Services. This critical town agency uses the funds we raise to purchase grocery store gift cards to help low-income seniors during the holidays.

Offering Music

Suite no. 2 in g minor

Allemande and Sarabande

by J. S. Bach

Sermon

"Mending"

REv. Josh Pawelek

Mary Bopp

Leah Coloff

Closing Hymn

#18 "What Wondrous Love"

Words: American folk hymn, ad. by Connie Campbell Hart

Music: The Southern Harmony, 1835

What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul,

what wondrous love is this, O my soul?

What wondrous love is this that brings my heart such bliss,

and takes away the pain of my soul, of my soul,

and takes away the pain of my soul.

When I was sinking down, sinking down, sinking down,

when I was sinking down, sinking down,

when I was sinking down beneath my sorrows ground,

friends to me gather'd round, O my soul, O my soul,

friends to me gather'd round, O my soul.

To love and to all friends I will sing, I will sing,

to love and to all friends I will sing.

To love and to all friends who pain and sorrow mend,

with thanks unto the end I will sing, I will sing,

with thanks unto the end I will sing.

Extinguishing the Chalice

Closing Circle

May faith in the spirit of life

And hope for the community of earth

And love of the light in each other

Be ours now, and in all the days to come.