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 with be “Welcome to God’s Love”
- Everyone will be welcomed to Celebration
- Next, please join in the Call to Celebration
- the opening hymn will be “O Jesus, I Have Promised”,
- next the Confirmands will be invited to join (processing from the back to the front of the sanctuary)
- we will then sing “The Summons”
- Rev Denman will invite the Confirmands to join as followers of Jesus
- we will recite together the creed written by the Confirmands and, following that, the pastors will bless them and query them
- Each Confirmand will give their unique lesson
- Their class leaders will respond to their lessons
- Family and mentors will lay hands on the Confirmands and pray for and bless them
- followed by passing the offering plates; the offertory will be: “Lord, Here Am I”, words by Fanny J. Crosby; music by Jay Althouse; performed by the combined MPC and St John’s Choirs
- next we will celebrate communion together
- the closing hymn will be “Let the Whole Creation Cry”,
- we will recite the Charge together
- followed by a postlude, “Postlude on Salzburg”, by Robert J. Powell
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.