CHANGE OF DATE TO APRIL 22 FOR NEXT TAIZÉ SERVICE: Please mark your calendar to reflect that this month’s Taizé service has been postponed to April 22 (due to schedule conflicts among the organizers and musicians).

We are excitedly preparing for the Plant Sale and Auction (on April 18!), working to make this a great and successful event for MPC. Not only will this be a fun-filled event (and a fun team!), we will use our success at this event to help us discern the extent to which this could be an annual event that would help our budget each year.

We welcome you to this week’s services as we observe the action-packed and tumultuous days leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion. On Palm Sunday, March 29th, the children lead us in a joyful procession waving palms and ribbons, as we remember the triumphant entry into Jerusalem.

On Tuesday, April 21st at 7pm, join authors Gayle Forman (“If I Stay”) and Jay Asher (“Thirteen Reasons Why”) for a special event. “We Are Here: A Benefit to Raise Hope and Awareness for Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion”, is sure to be an inspiring evening, and not to be missed.

Sunday, April 19th at 11:30am, historian Amy Kittelstrom will be at MPC discussing her new book The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition. We hope you will join us for what is sure to be a fascinating talk.

Now through March 29th, registration is open for this Spring’s youth group retreat at Tahoe!
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Fighting Racism and Sexism (and playing Quidditch)

The *ACMP* Worldwide Play-In Weekend is a celebration of the joy of chamber music that occurs the first weekend in March each year. All welcome to enjoy this free event at Montclair Presbyterian Church.

The one-day MPC Spring Women’s Retreat is scheduled for Saturday, March 14, at the First Presbyterian Church in Berkeley, on the topic of “Presence: Tending to What’s Real.”

On Wednesday, February 18th, at 7 PM, we will gather for a special Taize service of prayer and meditation. Although we have a Taize prayer each month on the third Wednesday, this month it falls on Ash Wednesday and so our service will be specially designed to include time for reflection on the springtime season of Lent, which begins in the darkness of the earth.

Saturday, January 17th at 7pm, New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore will be at MPC discussing his new book The Work. A follow up to his bestselling book The Other Wes Moore, The Work continues a remarkable quest to find a meaningful life. We hope you will join us for what is sure to be a fascinating evening.