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Old Testament Lesson Psalm 90 1-10

Old Testament Lesson Genesis 3 21-24

Intercessory Prayer & Lord's Prayer:

Worship Songs in English, Telugu UECF Choir

Introduction of Preacher Mrs. Prafulla Vuppula

Sermon: ‘You Live Once and Never Twice’ Bro. Sunny Joseph

Offertory

*Doxology

Offertory Prayer Bro. Sunny Joseph

*Closing Hymn 'My hope is Built’ UMH#368

*Closing Prayer & Benediction Bro. Sunny Joseph

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Thanks to Bro. Sunny Joseph Mylabathula for ministering to us today.
• Next week, Rev. Joseph Theophilus will bring the Word of God.
• Today’s Fellowship Hour is hosted by UECF Families.
• Please sign-up the Fellowship Roster if you would like to volunteer to host the Fellowship Coffee Hour.

Birthdays:

• • Aaron Paul Rapaka 30^th May
  • Nathan Rapaka 01^st June
  • Samrita Eva Ravinder 01^st June
  • Mrs. Sabita Ravinder 02^nd June
  • Mr. Ajay Damarapu 03^rd June

Anniversary:

• Mrs. Grace & Mr. Sundara Rao Tsappidi 29^th May
• Mrs. Olives & Mr. Kanthi Paul Rapaka 30^th May
• Mrs. Mrs. Olive & Preetham Cheeli 31^st May

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Memorial Day

Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (May 30 in 2016). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War (it is celebrated near the day of reunification after the Civil War), it was expanded after World War I. At the end of the Civil War, communities set aside a day to mark the end of the war or as a memorial to those who had died. Some of the places creating an early memorial day include Sharpsburg, Maryland, located near Antietam Battlefield; Charleston, South Carolina; Boalsburg, Pennsylvania; Carbondale, Illinois; Columbus, Mississippi; many communities in Vermont; and some two dozen other cities and towns. These observances coalesced around Decoration Day, honoring the Confederate dead, and the several Confederate Memorial Days.

The first memorial day was observed by formerly enslaved black people at the Washington Race Course (today the location of Hampton Park) in Charleston, South Carolina. The race course had been used as a temporary Confederate prison camp for captured Union soldiers in 1865, as well as a mass grave for Union soldiers who died there. Immediately after the cessation of hostilities, formerly enslaved people exhumed the bodies from the mass grave and reinterred them properly with individual graves. They built a fence around the graveyard with an entry arch and declared it a Union graveyard. The work was completed in only ten days. On May 1, 1865, the Charleston newspaper reported that a crowd of up to ten thousand, mainly black residents, including 2800 children, proceeded to the location for included sermons, singing, and a picnic on the grounds, thereby creating the first Decoration Day.

The first known observance was in Waterloo, New York on May 5, 1866, and each year thereafter. The friendship between General John Murray, a distinguished citizen of Waterloo, and General John A. Logan, who helped bring attention to the event nationwide, was likely a factor in the holiday's growth. On May 5, 1868, in his capacity as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans' organization, Logan issued a proclamation that "Decoration Day" be observed nationwide. It was observed for the first time on May 30 of the same year; the date was chosen because it was not the anniversary of a battle. The tombs of fallen Union soldiers were decorated in remembrance.

Many of the states of the U.S. South refused to celebrate Decoration Day, due to lingering hostility towards the Union Army and also because there were relatively few veterans of the Union Army who were buried in the South.

The alternative name of "Memorial Day" was first used in 1882. It did not become more common until after World War II, and was not declared the official name by Federal law until 1967. On June 28, 1968, the United States Congress passed the Uniform Holidays Bill, which moved three holidays from their traditional dates to a specified Monday in order to create a convenient three-day weekend. The holidays included Washington's Birthday, now celebrated as Presidents' Day; Veterans Day and Memorial Day. The change moved Memorial Day from its traditional May 30 date to the last Monday in May. The law took effect at the federal level in 1971.

After some initial confusion and unwillingness to comply, all 50 states adopted the measure within a few years. In 1978, Veterans Day was changed back to its traditional date on November 11. Memorial Day endures as a holiday which most businesses observe because it marks the beginning of the "summer vacation season." This role is filled in neighboring Canada by Victoria Day, which occurs either on May 24 or the last Monday before that date, placing it exactly one week before Memorial Day.