Our fourth principle invites us to search for truth and meaning. Bring a book today to leave at the altar and take home another to continue your search. Together, we’ll participate in a summer book communion. Worship Leaders this week are Rev. Darcy, Haruko DeArth, and guest musicians Jorge Torrez and Amanda Ross.

Because Amanda and Jorge are performing today there will be more than our usual amount of music. They will sing a piece called, “Found Tonight” for our Opening Music. During the Book Communion they will perform two verses of something called “Unwritten.” The first verse will be sung while we deposit out books near the pulpit, and the second will come at the end of the sermon when churchgoers will be invited to come back up and choose a new book from the stack. During the Offering they’ll serenade us with a selection called, “I See the Light.”

For the Storytelling portion of our service Amanda Gilbert will read “More Than Anything Else” by Marie Bradby. It is the story of Booker T, Washington, who wanted to learn how to read “more than anything else”when he was a child following the end of the Civil War.

Hymns the congregation will sing include No. 188 “Come, Come, Whoever You Are,” No. 123 “Spirit of Life,” and, in keeping with the book theme, the Closing Song will be a new one for us, No. 320, “The Pen is Greater.”