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 will be Adagio from Voluntary in A Major Op. 7 No. 1 by John Stanley, with C.J. Briggs on the organ
- Katie Kilby will welcome everyone to Celebration
- Mary Ellen McKey will lead us in an Opening Prayer (based on Psalm 150, adapted from a prayer of the PCUSA)
- the opening hymn will be “For Everyone Born”,
- next Mary Ellen will lead us in the Prayer of Confession (from the PCUSA, adapted)
- Debbie Fallehy will lead a celebration of October birthdays
- then it’s Time with Children
- Invitations are next
- The MPC Choir will present an anthem, Umoja Tunaimba (United We Sing), words and music by Victor C. Johnson, Kim Rankin directing
- next Sari will read from scripture, Acts 17:16-33
- Rev. Ben Daniel will offer a sermon, “We’re All God’s Children”
- the hymn of response will be, “Look Who Gathers at Christ’s Table!”
- Art Paull will present the new International Scholar, Yanan Lu, during a God’s Work in the World
- then the offering plates will be passed,
- we will celebrate communion together, while C. J. Briggs plays Rhosymedre from Three Welsh Tunes by R. C. Vaughan Williams
- the closing hymn will be “In Christ There is No East or West”
- 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.