May 4th, 10:30am: Pastor Aubra Love Preaching, Acoustic Band Performing!
Sunday May 4th, 10:30am
Pastor Aubra Love is Preaching!
Acoustic Band Performing!
Communion Sunday
Pledge Sunday
We are delighted to invite you to worship with Christ Congregational Church at 10:30am this Sunday May 4th — either in person or via Zoom. Pastor Aubra Love, Pastor Matt Braddock, Music Director Sam Wack, and CCC’s Congregational Giving Engagement Area Coordinator – Betsy Furlong, will lead us in an inspiring and contemplative worship, praise and communion service.
The music this Sunday will feature the CCC Acoustic Band Players — Jim Brown, Peder Maarbjerg (leader), Barbara Pearson, John Potts, Doug Redmond, Mary Scott, Paul Scribner, Sam Wack — alongside CCC’s Chancel Choir, and will include “God’s Choir in the Sky” by Ray Overholt, “Total Praise” by Richard Smallwood, “Dry and Dusty” by Brittany Haas, and “10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)” by Jonas Myrin & Matt Redman.
Betsy Furlong will be our Lay Reader this Sunday, reading “We dare to imagine a world…” by Linda Jonesand a reading from Scripture (Acts 9), before kicking off our 2025 Stewarship Season (see details below!) with some thoughts around: “Why is CCC my church? Why do I support it by pledging? My hope and blessing for our church…”.
At the heart of the service, Pastor Aubra Love will offer a Meditation:
“Dancing Through Grief” based on Psalm 30:11.
During the Offering portion of the worship service, we will have an opportunity to contribute to the Deacons Fund, as we do on Communion Sundays. The Deacons Fund is a separate fund from the Unified Budget and is used to support members of the church in times of financial need and is dispersed at the discretion of our Pastoral Team.
Finally, we will celebrate the Sacrament of Communion together, in the welcoming and inclusive way that is CCC’s tradition — as we celebrate people of all races, cultures, ages, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.
All are welcome at this open table.
This is a time to breathe, to remember, and to receive.
Come as you are. There is room for you here.
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Meeting ID: 119 508 399
After the worship service, everyone is invited to join our post-worship Coffee/Social Hour and our pre-Mother’s Day conversation with Pastor Aubra Love (including a book reading and signing) facilitated by Donna Whittlesey Miller, which will take place in the Chapel.
Post-worship book signing and pre-Mother’s Day conversation, in-person only. Come, to laugh, lament and love our way to Mother’s Day. All our siblings are warmly invited (from babies to boomers), to explore your stories of being mothered, or mothering, or the absence thereof. You are wanted, here!
Books will be available after each service for signing and purchase.
Our Lactating God: The Embodied Amen
