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CMC Worship in Place | Easter 3 | Keep CMC Safe From Abuse | April 26

Easter 3 | Keeping CMC Safe from Abuse

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Special thanks to Elisa and Matthew Leahy for video production

Welcome | Jerry Nussbaum

As the Psalmist proclaims with these words :
24” This is the day that the Lord has made;
let us rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 English Standard Version (ESV)

Here we are, again, invited to worship in place, where you are right now.

These are indeed new and changing days, learning new ways to be together without being together. Saying to friends and family “I’m not taking visitors right now…let’s connect by phone or Skype.”

Maybe you are fortunate and able to work from home.

Some may wonder when will my business open again, when will I be called back to my...

CMC Worship in Place | Easter 2 | Creation Care | April 19

Sunday Meditation | Easter 2 | Creation Care | 19 April 2020

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Special thanks to Elisa and Matthew Leahy for video production.

Welcome and Call to Worship | Cindy Fath

For many, even most of us, the past month has meant that we find a new way of life. For me, it meant creating a workspace in a room at home from which to facilitate classes for my ESL students. I suspect we’ve all found a new rhythm in our routines all the way from our tinies to our seasoned citizens.

What you may be less aware of is that our earth has also found a new routine. Our world has been forced into a rest, a pause. Covid-19’s globe-zigzagging impact has reminded us that nothing happens in isolation, that what affects one...

CMC Worship in Place | Easter | April 12

Easter

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The Cross and Resurrection

Prelude | In the bulb there is a flower, for quartet | Myers Family

Peace Candle | Al & Kathy Bauman, JoAnn and Paul Knapke

Opening Words | Jen Cartmel

Call to Worship | Inspired by Luke 1:78-79; John 1:4-5; John 11:25 | Cartmel/Plessinger Family

Leader: Come to me, all you who sit in darkness
and in the shadow of death!

Everyone: On you has the light shone!

Leader: For Jesus Christ is the light of the world
and this is the story;

Everyone: the light shines in the darkness
and the darkness could not put it out!

Leader: Jesus...

Good Friday Service | 10 April 2020

Good Friday | 10 April 2020

Special thanks to Elisa Leahy for video production.

Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained through One License with license A-727859.

Prelude | Ah, Holy Jesus,* Johann Cruger (1640) Arr by John Carter (*HWB 254) | Tom Blosser

Welcome | Joel Miller

Call to Worship | Miller Family

On this night, as the shadows deepen,
We come to be present with Jesus.
With the glory of Palm Sunday behind us and the victory of Easter not yet come,
We will sit together, although apart, with our listening and breaking hearts.
In this world that is at once beautiful and tragic,
We seek to be present with all who suffer.
We will be present with ourselves
In the dark valleys of life, when sorrow threatens to overwhelm,
We long for a safe and sacred space to sit with our grief and our questions.
Jesus Christ, holy friend,
we know that you are here with us.
Let us be here with you. Amen.

Hymn | STJ 105 Don’t...

CMC Sunday Meditations | The Cross and Being a Witness | Lent 6 | Palm Sunday | April 5

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The Cross and Being a Witness | Lent 6 | Palm Sunday | April 5

Opening Remarks | Joel Miller | video: 0m.00s

Peace Candle/Welcome | Jen Cartmel & Maya Plessinger | video: 1m43s

As we meet today in spirit but not in person, we gather around these Sunday Meditations offered by members of the CMC community. Just as we light the Peace Candle to begin our worship, you are invited to light a candle for these Meditations. The flame joins us in spirit across distance, along with our sister church in Armenia, Colombia.

Call to Worship | Jen Cartmel | video: 2m10s

Hymn | Hold me God | Katie Graber | video:...

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