From Rev. Ben: In preparation for my sermon this week I walked around my garden with my camera, taking macro photos of various flowers, leaves and fruit. I’m not sure what is stranger—the fact that my sermon preparation now includes my camera, or that it felt so natural to be preparing for a sermon by thinking about things like aperture, shutter speed…

From Rev. Ben: According to my calculations, of this Sunday, July 19, we will have been doing online celebrations for four months, which is a third of a year. I won’t say it’s gotten any easier to do online celebration, but I do think we have gotten better at it. This week’s video play list can be found below. View July 19th…

From Rev. Ben: After taking a week to join with Presbyterians from across the denomination in a worship that took us around the world, this week we will be returning to our regular (by which I suppose I mean “regular”) practice of doing celebration using a YouTube video play list, which can be found here: View July 12th Celebration online You can…

A note from Rev. Ben: For celebration this week we will be joining Presbyterians from across our denomination and around the world in a worship service produced by the Presbytery of Boston. The worship service is led by The Rev. Cindy Kohmann, one of the outgoing co-moderators of the General Assembly. Elder Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri, the other outgoing co-moderator, also makes an appearance in…

From Rev Ben: For celebration this week, I have been trying to improve my post-production video skills using Apple’s iMovie software, and I’m having fun—maybe too much fun—as I learn to edit. The link to Celebration, with all of its splicing and fading and subtitles, is below. This week, Talitha has been ably representing the Presbytery of San Francisco at our denomination’s…

For our online celebration this week we will joining with a wide diversity of American Christians in observing Juneteenth, which is a day set aside to remember when the last community of enslaved Americans learned of their emancipation. Given all of the conversations around race and white supremacy that are happening in our congregation, in our communities, in our nation and in…

It’s hard to believe it, but we have reached the middle of June, which means 2020 is almost half gone; it also means we are halfway through Pride month. This week we will be observing Pride in celebration and I’m glad we are. There is a lot going on in the world right now—a pandemic, an up-swell of voices proclaiming #BlackLivesMatter and…

What a week it has been. Please join us for online Celebration to reflect, mourn, pray, and hope together. This is a communion Sunday, so we will invite you to bring your own bread and cup to the table; you may partake of it during the youtube service, or, if you prefer to break bread in community, save it for the zoom…

We have made it through the season of Eastertide in social isolation and now Pentecost is here. I love the holy day of Pentecost, and I think we have put together a really wonderful online celebration for this year’s rather nontraditional celebration of the Christian Church’s birthday. You can submit comments and prayer requests via our Comments Form at mpcfamily.org/comments . We’d love to…

As we head into a beautiful Memorial Day Weekend and our hearts long for the gatherings, parties, and remembrance ceremonies of previous years, we hope you will join us for church online. Our new ritual is to gather on Sunday mornings on YouTube for worship, and zoom for coffee hour.  You can submit comments and prayer requests via our Comments Form at mpcfamily.org/comments .…