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:
- Kim and guest musician Scott Thompson will play a prelude, “Allegro” from Sonata in E Minor by Antonio Vivaldi
- Katie will welcome everyone to Celebration.
- Doug Brookes will lead us in the Call to Celebration, (adapted from A Prayer on Trans Day of visibility, by M J Kaiser)
- The opening hymn will be “Come! Live in the Light!”.
- Next, Doug will lead us in a Prayer for Peace (by Rev. Mak Kneebone, adapted),
- then we will have a Time With Children.
- Invitations are next.
- We will hear from Kim and Scott again with a piece entitled “Kol Nidrei”, from Op.47 (1880) by Max Bruch (1838-1920)
- Then Doug will read aloud the scripture reading from Romans 13:8-14
- Next, Katie will share a sermon,
- The Hymn of Response is “Help Us Accept Each Other”,
- There will be a pastoral prayer next, then
- The offering plates will be passed while Kim and Scott play “Sicilana” from Sonata in E Minor by Antonio Vivaldi
- The closing hymn will be “I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me”.
- We will recite the Charge,
- Katie will offer a benediction
- followed by a postlude from Kim and Scott “Allegro molto” from Sonata in E Minor by Antonio Vivaldi
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.