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:
- Kim will play a prelude
- Katie Kilby will welcome everyone to Celebration
- Jerry White will lead us in a Call to Celebration (Lutheran Peace Fellowship)
- the opening hymn will be “Come! Live in the Light!”,
- next Jerry will lead us in the Prayer for Peace (Philippines)
- then it’s Time with Children
- Invitations are next
- The MPC Choir anthem will be “Lord, Make Me an Instrument of thy Peace” words attributed to St. Francis; music by Kim Rankin, director
- next Jerry will read from Matthew 5:43-48,
- Rev. Ben Daniel will offer a sermon, “Remembering Peace”
- the hymn of response will be, “O Day of Peace”
- Prayers of the People are next
- then the offering plates will be passed, offertory will be “Lord, I Want to Be a Christian”, an African-American spiritual, arr. Deanna Witkowski
- the closing hymn will be “Lord, I Want to Be a Christian”
- 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.