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Wednesday, September 10th at 7pm, authors Louise Greenspan, MD, and Julianna Deardorff, PhD will be at MPC discussing their new book “The New Puberty: How to Navigate Early Development in Today’s Girls”. With girls maturing earlier than ever, many parents, teachers, and family members are concerned about the reason for and impact of this change. Join authors Louise Greenspan, MD, and Julianna…
Wednesday, September 3rd at 7pm, author and musician Sam Barry will present and read from Her Wild Oats, a novel by his late wife Kathi Kamen Goldmark. Sam will be joined by Guy Johnson and authors Peggy Orenstein and Frances Dinkelspiel. We hope you can join us for what promises to be a wonderfully warm and funny evening. About the book: Completed…
Monday, September 29th at 7pm, authors Paul Williams and Tracey Jackson will be at MPC discussing their new book “Gratitude and Trust: Six Affirmations That Will Change Your Life”. The book is drawn from Paul’s experience of twenty-four years in the recovery movement and Tracey’s daily quest for peace amid the difficulties of daily life.
MPC is getting competitive over the World Cup games! Those of you who were rooting for a USA win will have to settle on a second-choice country as the food drive competition continues.
A reminder of how this game works:
1) Bring in your cans and packages of non-perishable food for the Alameda County Food Bank
Next week at this time, seventy or so of us from MPC will be sitting around a campfire in South Lake Tahoe making some music. It’s time for Family Camp!
Our adults will be enjoying a program by pastor, author, and musician Sam Barry each morning. Sam’s book “How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons” …
You are invited to an all-church event after Celebration on Sunday, June 1st. Our courtyard will be transformed into a fun-filled church fair and we will be playing games of all kinds. Being Presbyterian, our church has a proliferation of committees, and even long-time church members do not always know what all the committees do. So in the Committee Fair, each group sponsors a table where you can play a fun game and ask any questions you may have about them and their role in the church.
This weekend our Youth Group had a games night featuring a life-sized game of monopoly. We ran out of time before anyone went bankrupt, but we had a lot of fun collecting rent and sending one another to jail.
We would like to thank and congratulate Amy and Stephen Bess who organized a wondrously successful plant sale! Hundreds of plants moved through our Family Room and courtyard on April 26th, and a couple last stragglers have just found new homes by now. 
Come hear our own Talitha Phillips preach this Sunday. Blake and Beth Thompson’s daughter, Mira, will be baptized and we will celebrate the sacrament of Holy Communion. We hope you will join us.