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 “All Hail the Power of Jesus Name” (arr. Ed Hogan), Jazz Sax Trio: Linda Spencer, Sally Cole-White, Kim Rankin
- Katie Kilby will welcome everyone to Celebration
- Claire Kelly will lead us in a Call to Celebration (David Beswick, Uniting Church in Australia)
- the opening hymn will be “How Great Thou Art”,
- next Claire will lead us in the Prayer for Peace (Jim Wallace, New Zealand Prayer Book)
- then it’s Time with Children
- Invitations are next
- Special Music will be “Praise to the Lord” (arr. Brant Adams), Jazz Sax Trio
- followed by Claire reading from the Scriptures, from Luke 11:1-13
- Katie will preach a sermon
- the Hym of Response is “Our Father, Which Art in Heaven”
- next, there will be a Pastoral Prayer
- then the offering plates will be passed, and The Jazz Sax Trio will play “Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah” (arr. Deanna Witkowski)
- the closing hymn will be “Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door”
- 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.