PLEASE NOTE: Celebration is back in the sanctuary! Everyone will need to wear masks and provide proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test within 3 days of each Sunday. You also may watch the service on a live stream in the courtyard or at home. To learn more about these choices, please visit mpcfamily.org/celebrate. In order to keep everyone healthy & safe, we will:
- require mask-wearing when indoors
- require either proof of Covid vaccination OR a negative Covid test from within the last three days. Please see the ushers for details
- run the furnace filtration system for ventilation, doors and windows open only when necessary
If you can get tested using an at-home test or a clinical test before coming to Church, that’s one way you can help keep the congregation safe.
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In celebration this week:
- Kim Rankin will play a prelude,
- Katie will welcome everyone to Celebration.
- Gretchen Garlinghouse will offer a Land Acknowledgement
- Mira Thompson and McKinley Forbes will lead us in the Call to Celebration, adapted from “School Prayer” by Diane Ackerman.
- The opening hymn is, “Morning Has Broken”.
- Next, Jan Stites will lead us in a Prayer for Peace, adapted from “Grace and the Great Turning” by Joanna Macy
- Then Katie will offer a Time with Children.
- Invitations are next,
- Then the MPC Choir, directed by Kim Rankin, will sing, “The Flower that Shattered the Stone” by John Denver
- Susan ten Bosch Paull and Art Paull will offer “Shared Wisdom”, readings on “Kinship with All Beings” by Margaret Irvin, Art Paull, and Anita Kreplin
- The Hymn of Response is “We Belong to the Earth” by Magpie,
- Then the offering plates will be passed, while Gail Onion plays an offertory on a Native American flute.
- Next will be a Prayer Tree Reflection,
- Then Katie will offer a Pastoral Prayer,
- We will recite the Charge,
- We will end with a procession to the Temescal Creek singing “My Roots go Down”, by Sarah Pirtle,
- Where Jean Gregory will share a closing blessing, “To The Great Spirit”
The Charge (say together) 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. Care for Creation. Love and serve God, rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Celebration live stream recordings
Every week, we post a live stream recording to YouTube. You can view information about those live stream recordings and access a link to the playlist on our Celebration Recordings page.