Fairlawn Avenue United Church
Online Worship and Music Bulletin
Sunday, February 6
Social Justice Sunday

Working Together…
to change the present…
for a better future.

Rev. Douglas duCharme
Eleanor Daley, Director of Music
Mezzo Soprano – Andrea Ludwig

Service Contributors:
Kathy Salisbury
Sandy Giles Byrne
Jim Pollock
Doug Knights
Liberty Leonard
Rob Metcalf
Kevin Doe
Don Urquhart
John Ryerson
Greig Clark
Laura Schlee

“Music is a universal language. It is a form of communication that transcends space and time, touching the hearts of people worldwide. With just one note, a shred of hope, happiness and even sadness can be transmitted from one soul to the next. … Music is also a bridge between cultural heritages and different backgrounds”.  –  Jacquelyn Hurtado

PRELUDE Bhangra meets Irish Dance
Gurdeep Pandher and Melanie Hackett

OPENING HYMN Let Us Build a House           Marty Haugen (b. 1950)

Let us build a house where love can dwell
And all can safely live,
A place where saints and children tell
How hearts learn to forgive.
Built of hopes and dreams and visions,
Rock of faith and vault of grace;
Here the love of Christ shall end divisions:
All are welcome, all are welcome,
All are welcome in this place.

Let us build a house where prophets speak,
And words are strong and true,
Where all God’s children dare to seek
To dream God’s reign anew.
Here the cross shall stand as witness
And as symbol of God’s grace;
Here as one we claim the faith of Jesus:
All are welcome, all are welcome,
All are welcome in this place.

Let us build a house where love is found
In water, wine and wheat;
A banquet hall on holy ground
Where peace and justice meet.
Here the love of God, through Jesus,
Is revealed in time and space;
As we share in Christ the feast that frees us:
All are welcome, all are welcome,
All are welcome in this place.

Let us build a house where hands will reach
Beyond the wood and stone
To heal and strengthen, serve and teach
And live the Word they’ve known.
Here the outcast and the stranger
Bears the image of God’s face;
Let us bring an end to fear and danger:
All are welcome, all are welcome,
All are welcome in this place.

Let us build a house where all are named,
Their song and vision heard
And loved and treasured, taught and claimed
As words within the Word.
Built of tears and cries and laughter,
Prayers of faith and songs of grace;
Let this house proclaim from floor to rafter:
All are welcome, all are welcome,
All are welcome in this place.
(Marty Haugen, b. 1950)

YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE
Going Home – from “New World” Symphony No. 9 Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Featuring Abigail Johnson

HYMN Amazing Grace           Music: from “Virginia Harmony” (1834) Words: John Newton (1779)
Sung virtually by people from 50 countries around the world.

ANTHEM We are Called          David Haas (b. 1957)  Arr. Mark Hayes (b. 1953)

Come! Live in the light!
Shine with the joy and the love of the Lord!
We are called to be light for the kingdom,
To live in the freedom of the city of God.

We are called to act with justice;
We are called to love tenderly.
We are called to serve one another,
To walk humbly with God.

Come! Open your heart!
Show your mercy to all those in fear!
We are called to be hope for the hopeless,
So hatred and violence will be no more.

We are called to act with justice;
We are called to love tenderly.
We are called to serve one another,
To walk humbly with God.

Sing! Sing a new song!
Sing of that great day when all will be one!
God will reign, and we’ll walk with each other
As sisters and brothers united in love.

We are called to act with justice;
We are called to love tenderly.
We are called to serve one another,
To walk humbly with God.

We’ll walk humbly with God!
(David Haas, based on Micah 6:8)

CLOSING HYMN I, the Lord of Sea and Sky (Here I Am, Lord)           Music: Daniel L. Schutte (1981)
Mezzo Soprano – Andrea Ludwig

I, the Lord of sea and sky,
I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in deepest sin
My hand will save.
I who made the stars of night,
I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them?
Whom shall I send?

Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me.
I will hold your people in my heart.

I, the Lord of snow and rain,
I have borne my people’s pain,
I have wept for love of them;
They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone,
Give them hearts for love alone.
I will speak my word to them.
Whom shall I send?

Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me.
I will hold your people in my heart.
(Daniel L. Schutte, 1981)

POSTLUDE The World Blessing 2022

This morning’s hymn and anthem texts are reprinted under onelicense.net #A-717945. Let Us Build a House – words by Marty Haugen, © 1994 GIA Publications, Inc. We are Called – words by David Haas, © 2014 GIA Publications, Inc. I, the Lord of Sea and Sky – words by Daniel L. Schutte, © 1981 New Dawn Music. All rights reserved.

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MARTY HAUGEN (b. 1950) was raised in the American Lutheran Church in Minnesota, and is now a member the United Church of Christ. He holds a B.A. degree in psychology from Luther College and an M.A. degree in pastoral studies from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. For the past 25 years, Haugen has pursued a career as a liturgical composer of contemporary hymns and anthems. He is also a performing musician, and holds a position as composer-in-residence at Mayflower Community Congregational Church in Minneapolis.

Czech composer ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK (1841-1904) was born in a small village north of Prague – the eldest of 14 children. His father was a professional zither player, innkeeper, and butcher. Folk music accompanied every family occasion, and young Antonín soon joined his father in the local band – he also occasionally served as an apprentice butcher. The youthful Dvořák studied organ, violin, piano and – less successfully – the German language. He played viola in the Bohemian Provisional Theatre Orchestra, performing in restaurants and at balls. However, in 1871, he resigned from the orchestra to concentrate on composing, scraping a living by teaching the piano. It was the lure of an amazing fee that persuaded Dvořák to venture to New York in 1892. For a little teaching and conducting, with four month’s vacation, he was promised the unimaginable salary of $15,000 – 25 times what he was paid in Prague, and worth about $850,000 in today’s terms. During his time in America, Dvořák produced three of his most famous works – the String Quartet No.12, known as the “American”, the Cello Concerto in B minor, and his “New World” Symphony No. 9. During the last years of his life, he was considered by many throughout the Western world to be the greatest of all living composers. And Dvořák’s popularity has never waned: his music still speaks to us today, and occupies a conspicuous position in performance repertoire.

JOHN NEWTON (1725-1807) was an Anglican clergyman and abolitionist. He started his career at sea at a young age, and worked on slave ships in the slave trade for several years, but after experiencing a Christian conversion, Newton eventually renounced his trade and became ordained as an evangelical Anglican cleric. He became a prominent supporter of abolition and lived to see the UK’s abolition of the African slave trade in 1807, just before his death. Amazing Grace is his most well known hymn.

DAVID HAAS (b. 1957) is an American author and composer of liturgical music, primarily for Roman Catholic congregations. He lives in Eagan, Minnesota where he is the Director of the Emmaus Center for Music, Prayer and Ministry. He is also Campus Minister and Artist in Residence at Benilde-St. Margaret’s School in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, where he teaches in the music and theology departments. Haas has produced over forty original collections and recordings of liturgical music. His music is sung throughout the world and appears in many hymnals of various denominations and languages.

MARK HAYES (b. 1953) is an internationally known award-winning concert pianist, composer, arranger, and conductor. Whether concertizing on the other side of the globe, or composing at his home in Kansas City, Missouri, Mark feels blessed to live out his mission “to create beautiful music for the world”. His compositions and arrangements, which draw from many diverse musical styles such as gospel, jazz, pop, folk and classical, can be found in the music libraries of churches and universities around the world. Mark’s 1,200+ published works include pieces for solo voice, solo piano, multiple pianos, orchestra, jazz combo, small instrumental ensembles, and choruses of all kinds. The Fairlawn Senior Choir has sung many of his anthems over the years, and has also had the privilege of presenting the Canadian premieres of two of his larger works with orchestra at past Special Music Sundays: Gloria (2010) and Magnificat (2015).

DANIEL L. SCHUTTE (b. 1947) is an American composer of Catholic liturgical music, and a contemporary Christian songwriter best known for the hymn I, the Lord of Sea and Sky, (also known as Here I Am, Lord). He has composed over 150 popular hymns and Mass settings in total, and also holds two master of arts degrees – one in theology and one in liturgy from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley. Also an alumnus of both St. Louis University and Seattle University, Schutte has received three honorary doctoral degrees for his contribution to the life of the church.

Music Sources:

Bhangra meets Irish Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOmZlQEA0eA
Let Us Build a House Marty Haugen https://youtu.be/GlnVLP0qFEo
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uymTSOYYYC0
Amazing Grace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA7pdABvpnc&t=13s
We are Called David Haas Arr. Mark Hayes https://youtu.be/cUHK40YSQyc
The World Blessing 2022 https://youtu.be/d48-qbcovVY

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