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Service of Lament ORDER OF WORSHIP SEPTEMBER 6, 2020 9/14: Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin Diangelo Sign Hennepin Avenue UMC’s 9/21: Meaningful Conversations about Race with Rev. Dr. Hooker 9/28: Tearing Down Fences in Baltimore with Rev. Cynthia Moore-KoiKoi Anti-racism statement 10/5: The Lunch Date, an Oscar-winning short Visit to find the link to the Zoom meeting. You are invited to add your name to the Lay Leadership Statement commiting to haumc.org/events the work of anti-racism on the Anti-Racism page of our website, haumc.org/anti-racism. As we do this work together, you are encouraged to explore the resources we are sharing on this web page. There are links to online courses, videos to watch, suggested books to read and podcasts to listen to, CONFRONT IMPLICIT BIAS: and resources for families and children as well as adults. You will find opportunities to engage in conversation with the Hennepin community as well as tools created by the United Methodist Church to help us do the work of TAKE AN ONLINE COURSE dismantling racism and transforming the world with justice and love. In our work for racial justice, we must confront the ways that racism is woven into our culture, our institutions, and even our own psyches. “Implicit Bias: What We Don’t Think We Think” is an online course created by The Vital Conversations: Realities of United Methodist General Commission on Religion and Race for anyone interested in learning and teaching others about implicit bias. Share this link with family, friends, neighbors, coworkers–and commit yourself to learning more about how Race and Racism has returned! implicit bias perpetuates racial injustice: WEEKLY ON MONDAYS, SEPT, 14-OCTOBER 5, 7:00PM ON ZOOM www.gcorr.org/online-course-implicit-bias/ You are invited to gather with fellow Hennepin members and friends to have Vital Conversations about the realities of race and racism in America. Using the award-wining Vital Conversations Video Series provided by the General Is the Spirit Calling You to Action? Commission on Religion and Race (GCORR), we will dive into some tough topics Are you ready to organize and mobilize for social justice in our neighborhoods? that threaten to divide and damage our community. The video series features Be part of HennepinHOPE, a new way of sharing action alerts led by our Risk contemporary theologians, sociologists, laity, clergy, scholars, activists and other Taking Mission and Service ministries team. thought-leaders dealing with challenges of race, culture, and oppression in the world today. We're making it easier for you to get and share timely, action-focused news about local opportunities to take social justice action through protests, marches, Join a Zoom call for one or all four of the 75-minutes sessions. We also welcome donation drives, advocacy, petitions, and more. back those who attended this summer. Heather Alden and Michelle DeVaughn will be facilitating. Email us with any questions: Heather Alden at *Follow on Twitter ([email protected] or Michelle DeVaughn at [email protected]). @HennepinHOPE *Send email to our HennepinHOPE lay leaders at [email protected] *Sign up to receive future HennepinHOPE email updates at haumc.org/email My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, CENTERING and my tongue sticks to my jaws; I am laid in the dust of death. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child They stare and gloat over me; W & M: they divide my clothes among themselves, Traditional African American Spiritual Sung by Odetta (Holmes) and for my clothing they cast lots. But you, O Lord, do not be far away! O my help, come quickly to my aid! SCRIPTURE & WITNESS Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the power of the dog! Psalm 22:1-7; 9-11; 12-15; 19-21 Save me from the mouth of the lion! My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, Readers: and Witnesses from the words of my groaning? Valerie Boyer, Laity, Michigan Annual Conference O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; Theon Johnson, Clergy, California-Nevada Annual Conference and by night, but find no rest. Clara Esther, Deaconess, Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference O God, you are holy, ... In you our ancestors trusted; Valerie Bridgeman, Dean, Methodist Theological School in Ohio they trusted, and you delivered them. Israel (Izzy) Alvaran, Clergy, Philippines Annual Conference To you they cried, and were saved; Kennetha Bingham-Tsai, Chief Connectional Officer, Connectional Table in you they trusted and were not put to shame. Chebon Kernell, Executive Director, Native American Comprehensive Plan But I am treated as a worm, and not a human being; Ronnie Miller Yow, Clergy, Arkansas Annual Conference I am scorned by others, and despised by the people. Yet it was you who took me from the womb; you kept me safe on my mother’s breast. On you I was cast from my birth, DISMANTLING RACISM: and since my mother bore me you have been my God. PRESSING ON TO FREEDOM Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help. I. THE CALL I can hear my Savior calling, I can hear my Savior calling, Many bulls encircle me,... I can hear my Savior calling, take thy cross and follow, follow me. they open wide their mouths at me, W: E. W. Blandy; M John S. Norris “Where He Leads Me” like a ravening and roaring lion. United Methodist Hymnal #338 Sung by Mark Miller, Laity, Greater New Jersey Annual Conference Luke 4:18-19 (The Inclusive Bible) III. THE JOURNEY Read in English and American Sign Language by Leo Yates, I do not know how long t’will be, nor what the future holds for me; Clergy, Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference But this I know, if Jesus leads me, I shall get home someday. The spirit of our God is upon me: “Beams of Heaven (Some Day)” United Methodist Hymnal #524 because the Most High has anointed me W & M: Charles A. Tindley Sung by Helen Cha-Pyo, to bring good news to those who are poor. Laity, Greater New Jersey Annual Conference God has sent me to proclaim liberty to those held captive, recovery of sight to those who are blind, Luke 4:18-19 Read in Hatian Creole (Kreyòl) by Judith Pierre Okerson, and release to those in prison Deaconess, Florida Annual Conference To proclaim the year of our God’s favor. The Journey Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey Resident Bishop, The Call Louisiana Episcopal Area & President, Council of Bishops Bishop Tracy S. Malone Resident Bishop, Ohio East Episcopal Area & Secretary Council of Bishops II. THE UNITED METHODIST RESPONSE HOLY COMMUNION Walk together children don’t you get weary, Walk together children don’t you get weary, INVITATION Walk together children don’t you get weary, Beloved, come to the table of the Lord with hearts open to repentance, There’s a great camp meeting in the promised land. confession and change. “Walk Together Children” African American Heritage Hymnal #541 W & M: Traditional African American Spiritual Sung by DeLyn Celec, Clergy, Worship Arts Coordinator and Campus Minister, Shenandoah University CONFESSION AND REPENTANCE It Is Enough W & M: R. DeAndre Johnson Luke 4:18-19 Sung by R. DeAndre Johnson, Clergy, Texas Annual Conference Read in Korean by Susan Kim, Laity, New England Annual Conference There are no words that can contain the depth of sorrow, grief and pain That mothers, sons, and all exclaim: THE UMC RESPONSE: Kyrie eleison! PRAY – CONNECT – SHOW UP - ACT “It is enough!”, the prophets cry Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton yet still Black men are doomed to die Resident Bishop, New York Episcopal by those who wish to vilify: Area & President-designate, Council of Bishops Kyrie eleison! It is enough! The harm must cease For our refusal to move from acts of mercy to acts of justice, from warring madness by police For our refusal to engage the discomfort of biblical obedience, who are sworn to protect, keep peace: For our refusal to name and dismantle personal and institutional racism, Kyrie eleison! We come in confession and repentance. Lord, have mercy. It is enough! We cannot wait! No more excuse for bias, hate! For creating and sustaining a system Your savagery we cannot take: that places its value in counting numbers. Christe eleison! For the hypocrisy of touting our creeds, and claiming our diversity while continuing to be a church that is 93% white, It is enough! We cannot breathe! We come in confession and repentance. Will you stand there and watch us bleed? Lord, have mercy. Are you not moved by cries and pleas? Christe eleison! For the commodification - historic and present - of our siblings in Africa, using them as bargaining tools and expendable resources. O my soul, it aches and yearns For denying your image in them, and impeding their ability to For a day when passions burn express their thoughts, and share their wisdom. For others with deep love, concern: We come in confession and repentance. Kyrie eleison! Lord, have mercy. I’ve had enough of these charades, For the abandonment of our cities and urban centers, of clichés and hasty crusades leaving congregations of Black and Brown people whose triteness wounds and cuts like blades: to deal with massive debt and crumbling church buildings. Kyrie eleison! For the duplicity and dishonesty of holding congregations of people of color There are no words that can contain accountable for self-sustainability, the depth of wounds our souls sustain even as their communities choke on minimum wages.
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