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:
- Marcia Roy will play a prelude
- Tara Flanagan will welcome everyone to Celebration
- Then Debbie Dille will lead us in a Call to Celebration (from May Oliver’s “On Traveling to Beautiful Places”)
- The opening hymn will be “Gather Us In”
- Next, Debbie will lead us in a Prayer for Peace, (excerpted from a prayer by Bishop Eugene Robinson)
- Followed by Time with Children (children will then be dismissed to Godly Play)
- We will hear invitations after that
- The MPC Choir will perform an anthem, “Welcome to God’s Love” by Mark Miller
- Then Debbie will read Ecclesiastes 3:1-5 and James 4:13-15
- Tara will offer a sermon, “Who’s Really In Charge Here and on Who’s Timeline?”
- Then we will sing the hymn of response, “Be Still My Soul”
- Tara will offer a prayer
- The offering plates will be passed while Kim Rankin plays “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”, tune by John Wyeth, arr. James Koerts
- The closing hymn will be “Farther Along”
- We will recite the Charge together
- Tara will offer 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.