PLEASE NOTE: Celebration is back in the sanctuary! Masks are optional, but encouraged. You also may watch the service on a live stream at home. Please use this option if you aren’t feeling well. To learn more about these choices, please visit mpcfamily.org/celebrate. In order to keep everyone healthy & safe, we will:
- encourage masking when indoors
- run the furnace filtration system for ventilation, doors and windows open only when necessary
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In celebration this week:
- The Gathering Music will be “Yonder Come Day”, an African-American spiritual
- Katie will welcome everyone to Celebration.
- Eloise Gilland will lead us in the Call to Celebration, (Church of Scotland, adapted)
- The opening hymn will be “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”.
- Next, Eloise will lead us in a Prayer Confession (Church of Scotland, adapted)
- then we will have a Time With Children.
- Invitations are next.
- The MPC Choir will present “There is More Love Somewhere”, a traditional spiritual, arranged by Adam and Matt Podd
- followed by a scripture lesson from the New Testament, Matthew 13:24-51
- Ben’s sermon is titled, “Let God Deal with Bad Belief”
- The Hymn of Response is “Farther Along”,
- then the offering plates will be passed
- The closing hymn will be “Guide Me O, Thou Great Jehovah”.
- We will recite the Charge,
- Ben will offer a benediction
- followed by a postlude from Marcia
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.