This week we will meet again online. There is a youtube video playlist for worship which you can access at 10 AM on Sunday (or any time you wish), and a zoom meeting for Family Hour at 11 AM. Please join us in prayer, lament, celebration, communion, and fellowship!
View April 5th Celebration Online
- Marcia will bring us in with a prelude, “Hosanna Loud Hosanna” arranged by Richard Wagner
- Ben will welcome us, and the Santos family will call us to celebration.
- Our opening hymn is “Ride on, Ride on in Majesty,” and we found a version where you can sing along with lyrics on the video. We hope this makes it easier to participate!
- Chad DeWitt and James Cook will lead us in the Prayer for Peace
- It’s Birthday Sunday! Debbie has prepared something special for the April birthdays. The lyrics to the Birthday Blessing are:
- God bless and cherish you, be gracious unto you,
shower you with favor and bestow the gift of peace
- God bless and cherish you, be gracious unto you,
- Dolores will tell a special Palm Sunday edition Godly Play story
- Doug Brooks will share this week’s scripture, from Mark chapter 11
- Talitha will preach: Palm Sunday at a Distance
- A special treat: Julia Dunbar (of MPC Riot) will sing “The Light of a Clear Blue Morning”
- We will celebrate communion. Make sure to prepare your table with bread and wine (or juice) or as close as you can get! Talitha and Michael Aho will sing, and you sing along:
- This is my body, broken for you; and as you do this, remember me.
This is my love, poured out for you; and as you do this, remember me.
And we remember your wondrous love; you gave your Spirit to live in us.
- This is my body, broken for you; and as you do this, remember me.
- As a postlude, Kim and her son Will will sing “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord,” for which you don’t need any more lyrics than that. Sing along!
- As always, we close with the charge:
- Go out into the world in peace. Have courage; hold on to what is good. Return no one evil for evil. Strengthen the faint-hearted, support the weak, and help the suffering. Honor all people. Love and serve God, rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Join us for online Family Hour at 11am. Join the Zoom meeting here; the password was sent out via email. You can also get the password by contacting the pastors.