Earth Day 2022

The FMC Climate Change Class will lead this service centered on Earth Day. Jim Dunn and Jennifer Miller will offer reflections from global and local community viewpoints.

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Acknowledgements for Worship Resources

“Elegy for the Artic”
By Ludovico Einaudi

“Planets Humming as They Wander”
Text: Heather Josselyn-Cranson, alt., ©2010 Heather Josselyn-Cranson; Music: Sally Ann Morris, 2009, ©2016 GIA Publications, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“At the Dawn of Your Creation”
Text: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, ©2011 Carolyn Winfrey Gillette; Music: attr. B F White, Sacred Harp, 1844; harm. Joan Fyock Norris, ©1989 Joan Fyock Norris; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Let the Children Come to Me”
Text: James V Marchionda; Music: James V Marchionda; arr. Michael K Runyan, alt.; ©1982 World Library Publications; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

If Kids Ran the World
By Leo & Diane Dillon; published 2014 by The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc.

“Gloria”
Text: Latin; Luke 2:14; Music: Jacques Berthier, ©1979 Les Presses de Taizé (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.); All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“The Garden Needs Our Tending Now”
Text: Mary Louise Bringle, 1999, ©2002 GIA Publications, Inc.; Music: French traditional, 16th c.; acc. Andrew Donaldson, 2010; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“O Healing River”
Text: Frances Minkoff; Music: Fred Hellerman; ©1964 (renewed) Appleseed Music, Inc.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Touch the Earth Lightly”
Text: Shirley Erena Murray, ©1992 Hope Publishing Co.; Music: Swee Hong Lim; arr. Tamryn Parker-Carver, ©2005 Hope Publishing Co.; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth”
Text: based on the writings of Julian of Norwich, Jean Janzen, 1991; ©1991 Jean Janzen; Music: Janet Peachey, 1991; ©1991 Janet Peachey; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“To a Water-lily, Op. 51 No. 6”
From Woodland Sketches; By Edward MacDowell, 1895

“God Who Touches Earth with Beauty”
Text: Mary S Edgar, 1925, alt.; ©1990 Sacred Music Press; Music: Alfred V Fedak, 1988; ©1990 Sacred Music Press; All rights reserved. Reprinted and streamed with permission through ONE LICENSE, license #A-731084

“This Is God’s Wondrous World”
Text: Maltbie D Babcock, Thoughts for Every-Day Living, 1901, alt.; Music: Franklin L Sheppard, Alleluia, 1915, adapt. from English traditional RUSPER