Outdoor Worship
Wednesday, September 22, we will have a meal and outdoor worship. Worship will include lament stations for all the grief of the year. Watch for more details, including a sign-up for boxed meals.

Join the MCC and First Nations Task Force
Tuesday, Sept 21, 6 pm, outside at MCC
 It seems our COVID sabbatical has been long. Throughout this time of Pandemic, Dave and I have been noting a lot of interesting work done by others in relation to First Nations. We have read several books. We would like to hear what each of you have been learning. It feels to us, that it is time to begin again. We hope you share our desire to learn more about the First Nations, and also to think seriously about how we can recognize their rightful place in our community today If this interests you, please contact . We would be happy to have you join us.


Thursday Morning Women's Group
The Thursday morning group will have TWO separate meeting options during the month of September. BOTH meetings will start at 8AM.
So, depending on where we are, how we are feeling, or whatever may be affecting our schedules on a given Thursday, we will have TWO options to stay in touch with one another.
1- Meet outside at church. Bring your own beverage and chair. Wooden benches at MCC are also a seating option.
2 - Meet on Zoom, using the same link and password we have been using in the past:

Sanctuary Team at God's Work, Our Hands
Sanctuary Teamsters will have the next Sanctuary Big Read books for sale (Separated by Jacob Soboroff. MCC will host discussion in October; details co ming soon). (The books are $9 - please make checks to the MCC.) They will also have postcards to fill out encouraging our federal legislators to support the pathway to citizenship provisions in the "Build Back Better" House bill. We are so close to this pathway for at least 5 million undocumented immigrant DACA recipients, people with Temporary Protected Status, many of whom have lived and worked among us for 10-20 years, and essential workers and farm workers. If you can't be there to fill out a postcard, please take a minute to email your representatives about the citizenship pathway. Here is an easy form to fill out from Voces de la Frontera.

From Wisconsin to Honduras: Helping Undeserved Children
The MCC Sanctuary Committee would like to invite you to a night with Just One International on Sunday, September 26 at 7pm! Just One International is a nonprofit organization operating in Honduras and based in Madison, Wisconsin, whose sole purpose is to serve the community of Aguas del Padre in Siguatepeque. Just One was formed in March of 2019 with the dream that through education, family empowerment, holistic care, and God’s love we can create long-lasting, generational change for the underserved children of Honduras. You will hear from the CEO, a native Wisconsinite, and a few members of the leadership team who will Zoom in from Honduras.

Many of the students being served by Just One were Emily Kuhn's 7th and 8th grade students from her time there in 2017-18. The work that this organization is doing is transformational in the lives of the youth they are serving as well as the community they are serving in. Please join us to hear about their mission and see how you may be able to get involved!

A Book with MCC
Back in 2013, the MCC was visited by a student from Michigan working on a PhD. Cybelle Shattuck says that the MCC was among the first places she visited while researching faith-based earth care, and we became a key part of her dissertation, which is now a book. Besides a full column of MCC in the index, you’ll also find Peter Bakken, Lisa Bauer, Kim Eighmy, Sonja and David Keesey-Berg, Tom Matthews, and Jeff Wild. It will be available in our library soon.

COH Women's Breakfast
Meet in person at Hubbard Street Diner on MONDAYS at 7:30 am, the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th Monday mornings. Zoom meet once a month on the 3rd Monday of the month at 10:15. Please mark your calendar. Let’s enjoy a new normal.

BYOB-New Bible Study Invitation
Mondays
Through the pandemic, a group of various comers-and-goers has been meeting on Zoom for weekly Bible study to discuss the readings for the coming Sunday. The plan for summer is to gather around the Memorial Garden for the BYOB Bible Study at 6:30 on Mondays. You’re welcome to join any time (and welcome to bring your own Bible…or beer…or beverage…or picnic)!