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June 28, 2025: Celebration of Life for Jack Harlow

A Celebration of Life for Jack Harlow will be held on Saturday, June 28, at 10 a.m. in the Meeting Room. A reception will follow in Fellowship Hall. Click here to view Jack's obituary.

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Order of Service
Our order of service is available both here on our website and in print.
"Hope" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Poem featured on the inside of the Order of Service.

Gathering Music

Kim Carballo, piano

Ringing of the World Bell

Welcome

Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray

Chalice Lighting

Heather, Cordelia, and Nathan, grandchildren

Reading

“Hope” by Sir Arthur Canon Doyle

Heather Harlow

Remembrances from Family

April Adkins, daughter-in-law

Remembrances from Friends

Steve Hollmann

Rev. Bill Breeden

Gift of Music

“Amazing Grace” words by John Newton music by Virginia Harmony

Kim Carballo, piano

Community Sharing

Pastoral Prayer

Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray

Closing Words

Recessional

Kim Carballo, piano

Faith may break on reason,

Faith may prove a treason

To that highest gift

That is granted by Thy grace;

But Hope! Ah, let us cherish

Some spark that may not perish,

Some tiny spark to cheer us,

As we wander through the waste!

A little lamp beside us,

A little lamp to guide us,

Where the path is rocky,

Where the road is steep.

That when the light falls dimmer,

Still some God-sent glimmer

May hold us steadfast ever,

To the track that we should keep.

Hope for the trending of it,

Hope for the ending of it,

Hope for all around us,

That it ripens in the sun.

Hope for what is waning,

Hope for what is gaining,

Hope for what is waiting

When the long day is done.

Hope that He, the nameless,

May still be best and blameless,

Nor ever end His highest

With the earthworm and the slime.

Hope that o'er the border,

There lies a land of order,

With higher law to reconcile

The lower laws of Time.

Hope that every vexed life,

Finds within that next life,

Something that may recompense,

Something that may cheer.

And that perchance the lowest one

Is truly but the slowest one,

Quickened by the sorrow

Which is waiting for him here.