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New Year’s Day at MPC

On January 1st, New Year’s Day, we will have Celebration at 5 PM instead of in the morning. You are warmly invited to come, and to join the MPC community for dinner at 6pm following Celebration. We will be singing Christmas carols and celebrating Communion together. There will be Godly Play and nursery care. And, if your inner Broadway diva wants to…

Author talk: Julie King

Join Julie King at MPC on Sunday, Jan 22nd at noon when she presents the new book she co-wrote: How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide To Life With Children Ages 2-7.  Her fellow author, Joanna Faber, helped her mother write the award-winning book How to Talk So Kids Can Learn, and wrote a new afterword for the thirtieth anniversary…

Conrad Susa: Carols and Lullabies, December 11th

On Sunday, December 11 in Celebration, the MPC Choir presents our fall major work, Conrad Susa’s Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest. Conrad Susa (1935-2013) was a prolific composer in many genres who taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Carols and Lullabies was commissioned in 1992 as a companion piece to Benjamin Britten’sCeremony of Carols. Using the sumptuous and unique instrumentation of harp,…

Religion and the 2016 Presidential Election

On Sunday, October 23rd, MPC’s Hadsell Futures Fund presented the latest in their speakers series: Dr. James Bennett, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies at Santa Clara University. His presentation focused on the role of religion in the 2016 presidential election, but also touched upon historical trends in religion and politics. Listen to the presentation (MP3 format)…

Membership Exploration Meeting Sunday, Oct. 9th

Have you been to MPC a couple of times and are wondering what it means to be a member? Or perhaps you’ve been attending MPC for years, and are thinking of making a more formal commitment. Either way, this Sunday’s Membership Exploration meeting is for you. It’s a very informal, no pressure get-together: we’ll talk a bit about MPC, the Presbyterian Church,…

Elizabeth Lesser Author Talk

On Tuesday, September 27th at 7pm, author Elizabeth Lesser will be at MPC discussing her latest book Marrow: A Love Story. This memoir, detailing her sister’s struggle with cancer and the way in which it transforms their relationship, is heartbreaking, suspenseful, and profound. We hope you can join us for what is sure to be a thought-provoking and fascinating talk. About Elizabeth…

Food Banks In Our Future

This week we again bagged food at the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Because it is summer we were joined by four teenagers from our Youth Group. It was plums and oranges. Anyone who has ever done this work knows that it truly is laborious. But we had fun visiting with the other people who come to volunteer, oftentimes from businesses who…