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 “Choral Song” (by Samuel Sebastian Wesley), played by Marcia Roy
- Katie Kilby will welcome everyone to Celebration
- Debbie Fallehy will lead us in a Call to Celebration (using “Three Things to Remember”, by Mary Oliver)
- the opening hymn will be “For Everyone Born”,
- next Debbie will lead us in the Prayer for Peace (excepted from a prayer by Bishop Eugene Robinson)
- then it’s Time with Children
- Invitations are next
- the MPC Choir will sing “Child of God” (by Mark Miller) accompanied and directed by Marcia
- followed by Debbie reading from the Scriptures, from Luke 9:51-62
- Ben’s sermon is next, titled “Holy Pride”
- the hymn of response is “For All the Children”
- there will be a pastoral prayer
- God’s Work in the World with LaHkwang and Art Paull is next
- then the offering plates will be passed
- the closing hymn will be “God of Grace and God of Glory”
- 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.