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 prelude, “Toccata in A Minor” by Jan Pieter Sweelinck, will be played by Marcia Roy on the organ
- Katie Kilby will welcome everyone to Celebration
- then Cheryl Geckeler will lead us in a Call to Celebration
- The opening hymn will be “Gather Us In”
- Next, Cheryl will lead us in a Prayer for Peace
- followed by Time with Children (children will then be dismissed to Godly Play and Echo the Story)
- we will hear invitations next
- then the MPC Choir will perform “Child of God”, by Mark Miller; directed by Kim Rankin
- Rev. La Hkawng, MPC’s current International Scholar, will read from Act 8:26-40
- Rev. Ben Daniel will deliver a sermon,
- Then we will sing the hymn of response, “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy”
- followed by a Pastoral Prayer
- The offering plates will be passed while an offertory is played by Kim Rankin
- The closing hymn will be “God Welcomes All”
- We will recite the Charge together
- There will be a benediction
- Marcia will play a postlude
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.