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Weekly E-News
Each week, MCC sends an email newsletter with details about worship;
congregational events, activities and opportunities; information about
happenings in the community and wider church; and more. Email us at
info@themcc.net to subscribe to
this free e-letter!
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MCC Latest Updates, Activities
Check this document to find all the latest updates of MCC
activities and online gatherings, for current video links and Zoom links for
your groups or meetings, and also virtual office hours.
Please contact the office or a pastor if you have other needs, ideas, or
just need a chat.
Senior Recognition at MCC: June 7
Every spring, Madison Christian Community honors its high school seniors in
a unique way. Ceramic vessels are set out, one for each youth, and the
community of MCC writes messages on slips of paper for each youth: prayers,
meaningful Bible verses, lines from hymns or poems, well-wishes, words of
wisdom, and sometimes even drawings from young children. The slips are
placed in the vessels which are then presented, along with a prayer shawl
from the PURLS, to each youth. We have heard from young adults about how
meaningful this has been to them.
This year, we still intend to honor our seniors in this special way. Perhaps
this year is particularly important to these who will not have commencement
ceremonies or graduation parties to mark this occasion. Joanne Kirkland has
generously donated the twelve (yes, we have twelve seniors this year)
ceramic vessels that need to be filled with slips.
This is where you come in!
Write your message on a slip of paper with the dimensions of 8 1/2" X 2" -
that's a two-inch piece cut off of a letter size sheet of paper. Then, send
the slips to MCC via the mail. (Please do not email the
messages.) 7118 Old Sauk Rd, Madison, 53717
The filled vessels and prayer shawls will then be delivered to each youth at
their home.
We’re Hosting an Intern!
On June 15, we begin as a teaching site for a Luther Seminary intern! It
will be 15-20 hours per week over the next two years. The student paired
with us is Lisa Lee, who is eager to learn and study ecumenical partnerships
and the future of the church. As an ELCA internship, Nick will be her
supervisor and her relationship with Advent may be a bit more primary, but
Lisa will live into full roles as a pastoral intern for the MCC and Sonja
will also be involved in mentorship. Right now we’re putting together an
Internship Committee of 5-8 people. You’ll learn more about Lisa in weeks to
come. Contact Nick with questions or other thoughts.
Attention
MCC Musicians!
Are you interested in collaborating to create virtual music? Please contact
Jen@themcc.net or call 608.556.2109
Healthcare Heroes
Karen Kuhn shared a campaign to ask the Wisconsin State
Legislature to pass a Healthcare Heroes Act ASAP. The Act would include:
✅Providing additional PPE for healthcare workers
✅Fully-paid sick and safe time for all healthcare workers
✅Free healthcare coverage with no out-of-pocket costs
✅Hazard Pay for healthcare workers
We’ve set up a tool for you to email your legislators and Governor
Evers to ask them to pass the Healthcare Heroes Act right now. You can do
that using this link: https://p2a.co/lAiGRVC
Or by texting the word “Heroes” to 406-49. Let's get this done!
SNaGs
It’s not united at the Union, but Monday Morning guys will continue on with
Zoom. 7:00 am on Monday mornings:
https://zoom.us/s/248810244? class="body_14px" />status=success or by
phone at (312)626- 6799 with meeting ID 248 810 244
GEMS
Join the Grumpy Elderly Men by Zoom on Tuesday at 10:30.
https://zoom.us/j/101704646 for online video, or Dial in 312 626 6799
with meeting ID: 101 704 646
Keeping Faith:
Empowering Faith Communities to Recognize and Respond to Child Abuse
Monday, September 21, 2020
8:30 am - 5:00 pm
At Madison Christian Community
Click for
Brochure
Participants will learn best practices to prevent abuse within faith
communities; how to recognize and respond to physical, emotional and
spiritual impact of child abuse; spiritual care for both survivors and
offenders; how to recognize and respond to sexual behaviors of children;
corporal punishment, the law and the faith community; optimal response to
allegations of child abuse within a congregation. Speakers: Victor Vieth,
JD, MA , Director of Education and Research for Zero Abuse Project (
www.zeroabuseproject.org ) and nationally recognized expert in the field of
interpersonal violence and child abuse.
Honorable Rev. Everett Mitchell is a Dane County Circuit Judge and Senior
Pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church. He is a community activist
with a passion and desire for justice, equality, and protection of children.
Click here to learn more information or to register for the event: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4546950
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Boundary Waters Group 2019
Sunday School
Online
Sunday School
June 7: A Loving Heart - James 1:19-27; 2:1-7
Join us for an interactive lesson from 9-10am exploring Jesus' call to love
ALL people and how to live that in the messiness of racist inequalities! We
will use breakout rooms again this week to share some time as a large group
and some time in small groups by age.
Supplies needed:
* paper and bold writing utensil
* computer (for making Flipgrid video)
Join Zoom Sunday School, K-8 by clicking here.
Meeting ID: 165 926 689
Password: mccSSzoom!
9:30 Worship on June 14 and beyond
As Sunday School concludes this week with the school year, we move next
Sunday in our summer schedule. If you want to be part of participating in
live worship, you’ll want to tune in at 9:30. (Of course, the videos are
always available for you to participate or re-watch later.)
Coming Soon: Worship to Go
For the past several summers, we’ve offered a worship resource for when
you’re not able to join in Sunday worship with our congregation. Right now,
it’s actually easier to be elsewhere and still be part of worship. But we’re
still going to offer you another resource to help your faithful connections
and reflections in these days. Watch for it soon!
Worship Notes
Hey Confirmation students! And hey everybody! Need a way to help focus your
attention on worship when you’re distracted by other things on your
computer? Or your dog? Or going to get a snack?
Click here to download Worship Notesto fill in and focus some
reflection. If you’d like to share them with pastors, please do!
Zoom - Download It
This week, some church meetings and number of affinity groups began using
Zoom, and Sunday Schoolers carried iPads outside to explore with each other
across the distance. If you haven't tried it yet, Zoom is pretty simple!
We’ll set up to a host a meeting and give you a link (or a dial in phone
number if you need or prefer). When you follow the link, you’ll be prompted
to download Zoom (https://zoom.us/).
If you have internet, a webcam, a microphone, and a speaker, you’re good to
go!
High School Social Hour
Wed, June 3, 4:30
via Zoom. As you’re wrapping up the final projects of the school year,
come take a break with your friends and check in with your pastors. And
maybe a few rounds of Pictionary? Snacks are always welcome, so bring your
favorite to munch on while we meet, if you wish.
Midweek Evening Prayer
At 8:45pm on Wednesdays,
join your pastors for a brief, reflective wind-down to your evening, with
focus on scripture, quiet time, and song. Find it in videos on
www.facebook.com/madisonchristiancommunity.
You don’t need a Facebook account to watch, but do if you’d like to comment
with greetings or prayer requests. You can also find it to watch later, if
live doesn’t work for you, including yesterday's edition at
this link.
Online Weekly Bible Study
Want a chance to see some familiar and funny faces? The conversation on
Tuesday evenings has been both deep and hilarious. We look at the upcoming
Sunday’s Bible readings, and chat about plenty else! 6:30 on Tuesdays,
you're welcome to join this great group any time. Contact Nick if you have
questions.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86301329891
Boundary Waters trip
Canceled
After reporting last week that an adapted trip would still be happening, the
planning group continued to reflect and worry about safely conducting a
wilderness canoe trip during the pandemic and decided that this summer’s
high school Boundary Waters trip would be cancelled.
Need Errands or
Other Help?
If you are staying home and unable to get out, folks from church are already
offering to help you get what you need. The Bauer family, the Huff family,
and Jean Einerson and Ann Ward have all voiced that offer of support. Meier,
who works in pharmacies, has offered to get prescriptions for people or help
with the process to obtain extra refills. Contact the church office if you
could use assistance. Some from the MCC are also connecting with broader
community support. See toward the bottom of the email for that information.
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Epiphany Choir Concert 2018 Directed by Jen
Striet
MCC Support Group
Is this whole sheltering at home thing starting to get to you? Do you have a
great resource, piece of music, activity you’d like to share that’s helping
you get through? Every Monday at 2pm we’ll open up an hour on Zoom for a
drop-in mini support group. Avis Elson will be the initiator, but there’s no
set format. It’s just time for us to have another way to Be the Church
together. If folks are intrigued with this idea, we’ll continue it weekly
for awhile.
Click here to Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 878 9825 0932
Password: 478023
One tap mobile
+1 312 626 6799
Connecting
Perhaps you’ve begun to experience dispersed worship through YouTube. Those
videos will continue (as we also continue to hone our tech skills!). Besides
links for direct worship services, you can find and subscribe to our
channels for
Advent Lutheran MCC and
Community of Hope UCC.
And there has been a lot of great community activity in the
Private MCC Facebook group
this week. It’s always a good place to share prayer requests, but also this
week has been where you could hear a duet from Emily Wixson and daughter
Rachel, where Arden Mahlberg invited a spiritual exercise, where some good
in the community has been shared, and we’ve coped together a bit. (For this,
you do need to be a member of Facebook.)
You’ll also be receiving a postcard with a reminder that not all this
connection requires a computer. Besides Zoom for online meetings, we also
have a conference call service set up, if that helps your affinity group or
committee meeting. And your pastors are available a phone call away for a
chance to chat, to pray together, to hear a voice.
Other Connecting
This week, some church meetings and number of affinity groups began using
Zoom, and Sunday Schoolers carried iPads outside to explore with each other
across the distance. If you haven't tried it yet, Zoom is pretty simple!
We’ll set up to a host a meeting and give you a link (or a dial in phone
number if you need or prefer). When you follow the link, you’ll be prompted
to download Zoom (https://zoom.us/).
If you have internet, a webcam, a microphone, and a speaker, you’re good to
go!
Please also continue to watch for your Thursday weekly email for other
updates. Sign up for the email at:
info@themcc.net
Or check out the MCC Facebook page,
click here. or MCC private Facebook group,
click here., for sharing connections and prayer updates and more. (You
need a Facebook account to request to join.)
And don't forget your phones! If you could use some pastoral conversation or
a prayer, your pastors are available at the other end of the line!
608-836-1455
Judith Bible Study
We will again meet via Zoom on Tuesday, June 9 at 9 a.m. - NOTE THE TIME.
Our study will be from the June issue of Gather magazine, “Just Love”,
starting on p 20. The topic is timely and there will be a lot to talk about.
Please join us.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86490165114?pwd=enA1dlJ0NWFCSWdzQ3ZKUEtoMDNNZz09
Meeting ID: 864 9016 5114
Password: 315322
Dial-in: 1-312-626-6799
CoH Women’s Breakfast Group
The Community of Hope Women’s Breakfast Group invites you to join us every
Wednesday by ZOOM at 8:30 am for chatting about events, books, hobbies,
families and your favorite topics. It is easy to join, just send me your
email to add our group. I will send an email link to you each Wednesday just
before 8:30 am. Sandra Esrael email:
sandraesrael@tds.net. See you in the morning!
Prairie Work Time
Saturdays 9-10 a.m.
Do you want to get outside, do good works, and social distance all at once?
You are encouraged to join the Saturday-morning group working on MCC’s
prairies. The jobs never end! Come when you can: Saturdays 9-10 a.m.,
weather permitting. Wear old clothes, and bring garden gloves and weeding
tools if you have them.
Cloth Face Masks
Need a cloth face mask? MCC sewers are re-tooling their sewing machines to
make cloth face masks for MCC members. Please contact Emily Wixson (enwixson@gmail.com)
with the number of face masks you need (2 per person in your family).
We also will sew face masks for Oakwood, Lussier, and Bayview affordable
housing staff and volunteers (request from Diane Eddings).
Please contact Emily Wixson enwixson@gmail.com if you would like to join our
group of sewers or would like a pattern for your own sewing outreach.
Free Weekly Devotional Message; Mondays
Augsburg Fortress sends a devotional message and selection of
artwork based on a Bible reading. Interested,
click here to sign up.
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