BBUUC Annual Family Ingathering and Water Sharing Sunday
Presented by the Worship Team
Gary Smart, Accompanist
Timothy Edwards, Guest Musician, Violin
Each year, we have a tradition at BBUUC to hold an Ingathering and Water Sharing Sunday. It’s a celebration of our whole community coming back together as schools reopen and summer ends. In this multi-generational service, all are invited to bring a SMALL container with a sampling of water symbolizing the places and ways your spiritual well springs forth. The water can be from a special place, including your home, a place connected to a special friend or family member, from a favorite ocean, river, lake, pond, rain barrel, or garden hose. Members sometimes bring water from travels near and far. Don’t worry; if you don’t have the actual water from that place, there will be cups with water that you can use to represent that place or spirit in your heart. During the Water Sharing ritual, each person pours their water into a community bowl. As we mingle our waters, we celebrate the mingling of our lives and gratitude for being together in community and bless the waters with our love.
About our Guest Musician
Timothy Edwards began his violin studies in the public schools of Detroit before studying at the Interlochen Arts Academy. He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (BM) and the University of Michigan (MM). He has performed extensively, holding positions as section performer, principal, and concertmaster at the Des Moines Metro Opera, Flint Symphony, and Toledo Symphony, with substitute positions with the Detroit Symphony and Jacksonville Symphony. Timothy enjoys a vibrant teaching studio and has served as a Humanities Adjunct Professor at the Florida State College of Jacksonville.
Join us after the service for an Ice Cream Social hosted by our BEACON YOUTH!
After the service, we will have an Ice Cream Social during the fellowship hour to celebrate the day, hosted by our Beacon Youth. Our Beacon members will make and serve these cold, sweet treats at the passthrough window after the service on Sunday, September 1! This will be a fundraiser for this vital ministry, and they will ask for a recommended donation of $3 for each ice cream treat. Children 10 and under should be accompanied by a parent when they come to be served.
Don’t forget to bring your loose change (paper bills also accepted) for our first Sunday Pennies from Heaven collection benefiting Black Voters Matter, whose goal is to increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities. They believe that effective voting allows a community to determine its own destiny. They agree with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. when he said, “Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”