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 is “Come, Christians, Join to Sing” (arr. Alice Jordan), played by Marcia Roy on the organ
- Rev. Ben Daniel will welcome everyone to Celebration
- Bonnie Hamlin will lead us in a Call to Celebration (adapted from a World Council of Churches prayer)
- the opening hymn will be “My Life Flows On”,
- next Bonnie will lead us in a Prayer of Confession (World Council of Churches, adapted)
- Debbie Fallehy will lead us in celebrating June birthdays
- Time With Children will follow
- Invitations are next
- the MPC Choir will perform “Over My Head” traditional spiritual, arr. Adam and Matt Podd, Kim Rankin directing
- Bonnie will read from the scriptures, Acts 16:16-34
- Ben will preach a sermon, “Good Trouble”
- the Hymn of Response will be “Standing on the Promises”
- next is a God’s Work in the World, from Pat Schwinn about the Pentecost offering
- then the offering plates will be passed, the offertory will be “Arise, My Soul, Arise”
- by Dan Forrest
- next we will celebrate communion together
- the Closing Hymn will be “Siyahamba”
- we will recite the Charge
- there will be a benediction
- followed by 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.