Please join us at the Church of the Ascension Fellowship Hall for a worship service based on creation beliefs.

The indigenous people of the Americas have passed down many creation stories for our benefit, if we choose to listen. What lessons might we learn from the stories of the Haudenosaunee, Yupik, Abenaki, Dine, Lakota and Apache people? Families with small children are invited to attend the first 15 minutes of the service to enjoy a sharing moment together; the congregation will sing the children to their classroom.

If you can’t make it to the Church of the Ascension, please join us on Zoom.

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/92562898271

Meeting ID: 925 6289 8271
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Hymns:

Prelude: Mach Jchi (Heatbeat Drum Song) – Ulali (2:39)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOn4vIybDU8&list=RDeZXJPfoyP54&index=2

Sharing Moment: Sky Woman: A Haudenosaunee Creation Story (Iroquois Confederacy – Sky Diver) (1:47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bOgYTscNOM

Opening Hymn #123 Spirit of Life (1:51) (or Alan can play this on the piano)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADpoDoqjOos

Dine (Navajo) Emergence story told by Wally Brown (3:26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kBWG47NayE

Lakota Origin Story by Elder Duane Hollow Horn Bear (13:38)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHbXk63wMTI

Campfire sequence for Dovie Thomason’s The Making of the Animals story (Start 35 minutes in to avoid the canoe drive-by and s’mores – this is a non-looping 59:18 video, no problem with length)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVbrIwav4FI

The Making of the Animals – recording on my phone via Bluetooth (12:33)

*Closing Hymn The Earth is our Mother (2:03)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2GF5eyUsfM