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:
- There will be a prelude from Kim Rankin
- Katie Kilby will welcome everyone to Celebration
- Janet Mulshine will lead the Call to Celebration
- the opening hymn will be “Arise, Your Light Is Come!”,
- next Janet will lead us in a Litany for a Just Peace (adapted from an Iona prayer)
- Debbie Fallehy will lead us in celebrating February birthdays
- we will then hear a God’s Work in the World from Suzanne Jones and Jean Roggenkamp with an update on electrifying the MPC campus
- Time with Children follows,
- Invitations are next
- the MPC Choir will perform “Rise and Shine!”, by Rollo Dilworth, Kim Rankin directing
- next Janet will read from Matthew 5:13-16
- then Ben will offer a sermon,
- the Hymn of Response will be “Longing for Light, We Wait in Darkness”,
- then the offering plates will be passed, the offertory is “Long is Our Winter”, music by W. A. Mozart by David Blackwell
- celebrating communion is next
- the closing hymn will be “Glory to God, Whose Goodness Shines on Me”,
- 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.