Looking for a place to celebrate Easter? Looking to bring a friend this year? MPC’s Easter celebration is festive and fun for all ages, and we hope you will join us!
Our service begins at 10 AM with introductory music by the great Barrelhouse Jazz Band and the MPC choir. Our worship is celebratory and kid-friendly, musical and reflective and thought-provoking. The Rev. Ben Daniel will give a sermon, during which younger children are invited to go upstairs to hear the Easter story told by Talitha G. Aho, our Coordinator for Children, Youth, and Family Life. If there are any younger children or those who are here for the first time, they are welcome to have a parent accompany them upstairs for the story. The children return in time to have Communion with the rest of the congregation.
Our fellowship continues after the service! As the saints go marching in and the band entices you to dance, our youth group members (grades 7-12) finish their work hiding eggs for the little ones (under 6th grade) to find right after the service. Our egg hunt is eco-friendly… no plastic eggs or trinkets, just real (organic) hard-boiled eggs dyed naturally. Children can bring baskets or bonnets to hold their eggs, or take one of the fun baskets our youth crafted out of recycled materials. As soon as a child has found 5 eggs they can get a chocolate prize.
As we continue to celebrate in the courtyard while the children find eggs, there will be sparkling cider and strawberries served for all, coffee and other goodies available in the Family Room, and jazz continuing from the band.
