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Dear Tory,
Peace and Greetings to you as we continue our journey in this season of LENT!
As we start to get closer to the end of our journey to the cross, we continue, we enter into the fifth Sunday of Lent, our Lenten Season sermon series: following the question continues this week and I invite you to join me this Sunday, March 26th at 11:00AM, for worship at Milwaukee Metropolitan Community Church, where you are welcome just as you are! What does it mean to exercise power as a follower of Jesus? The answer is a matter of life and death? Join us Sunday, as our series comes to a close, and as we ask the last question: “WHAT POWER DO WE HAVE?”
Our 40-Day Lenten Offering Challenge continues, with only another week to go. You’re still invited to join the challenge during this Lenten Season. If you haven’t started, you can still join in. Details are below on how you can partake in this year’s offering challenge. Also, Easter is right around the corner, and orders are now being taken through next Sunday, April 2nd for Easter Flowers in honor or memory of your loved ones. Information on this can also be found below.
Don’t forget to stick around after worship next Sunday, April 2nd (Palm Sunday) for our Annual Palm Sunday Luncheon. This year our Board of Directors will be hosting you by providing a wonderful Potato and Salad Bar Lunch followed by our Monthly Birthday and Anniversary Cake. Also, remember to mark your calendar to attend our two ecumenical services for Maundy Thursday, on April 6th, being hosted at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and our Good Friday Service, on April 7th, being hosted at Christ Church United Church of Christ. Information on both these inspirational Holy Week Services can be found below.
Virtual worship can continue be found on our Facebook and YouTube pages, in the later part of the afternoon on Sundays. We ask that you keep watch on these pages for when worship has been uploaded. Due to the high traffic on internet usage on Sundays, and now that all faith communities have started returning to in-person worship, uploads have been taking longer than expected.
As always, I Invite you to take a moment to scroll down to view these announcements and the many other special announcements, connected to the life of our congregation and community, as we continue to be the vibrant, inclusive, and progressive community of faith that we are.
May God’s blessings continue to be with each of you!
In Christ,
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Scripture: John 15:20-27
Remember what I told you: a subordinate is never greater than a superior — so know that they will persecute you as they persecuted me, they will respect your words as much as they respected mine. They’ll do all this to you because of my Name, for they know nothing of Abba God who sent me. If I hadn’t come and spoken to them they would have been blameless. But as it is, they have no excuse for their sin. All those who hate me also hate my Abba. If I had not done among them the works that no one else has ever done, they would be blameless. But as it is, they have seen and hated both me and my Abba. Yet all this was only to fulfill what is written in the Law: ‘They hated me without cause.’ When the Paraclete comes — the Spirit of Truth who comes from Abba God, whom I myself will send from my Abba — she will bear witness on my behalf. You too must bear witness, for you’ve been with me from the beginning.
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Join us for IN-PERSON WORSHIP
this Sunday 11:00am
We being a close to our Lenten series:
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This Sunday we bring a close to our Lenten Series: following the question ...
What does it mean to exercise power as a follower of Jesus? The answer is a matter of life and death? Join us Sunday, as our series comes to a close, and as we ask the last question: “WHAT POWER DO WE HAVE?”
REMEMBER ...
You can also connect with us for Virtual Worship on our Facebook Page or YouTube Channel, Sunday afternoons through our
links below to our Facebook and YouTube pages.
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2 MORE WEEK TO TAKE PART IN THE
2023 40-Day Lenten Challenge
Milwaukee Metropolitan Community Church invites you one again to partake and engage in this offering challenge during the Lenten Season. The Lenten 40 Day Challenge goes from February 22, 2023 through Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023.
Collection containers are available in the Narthex of the church, or seeing any member of the Board of Directors. You can also go online and make your Lenten Challenge Offering as well.
We will receive our challenge offering on Palm Sunday, APRIL 2ND,
and dedicating our Lenten gifts. Lenten Offering will earmarked toward continuing our programming and ministries at Milwaukee MCC.
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Only 2 more Sunday to order your Easter Lilies & Flowers for Easter!
Remember to place your orders for Easter Lilies and Spring Flowers. Orders will be taken through Palm Sunday, April 2nd, so don't wait until the last minute.
Order forms are available in the Narthex of the church, as well as your weekly bulletin. You may also download the form by clicking the link below.
You may purchase one (1) plant for $25 or two (2) for $40. Orders will be taken up through Palm Sunday, April 2nd. Purchase your flowers in Honor or Memory of a loved one(s), as well as adorning our Sanctuary for Easter Sunday 2023.
Easter Flower Order Form
You may also order Easter Flowers online by clicking on:
Easter Flower Online Order
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Order and Shop with SCRIP and Make it a WIN-WIN for Both You and Our Congregation!
Continue to shop with SCRIP, making it simple and easy to shop virtually.
By purchasing and shopping with
SCRIP Cards, you can continue to shop in your normal way, whether in person or virtually, while continuing to support Milwaukee Metropolitan Community Church.
Order forms can be obtained by clicking below on the SCRIP ORDER FORM LINK below. You can mail your payment to the church by using one
of your tithing envelopes or going online and using our online giving portal, noting in the comments that your payment is for SCRIP Cards.
SCRIP Orders will be mailed to you once received.
This month's ORDER DEADLINE is:
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Drop your forms and payment in
the basket on Sunday mornings, or you can send them in the mail to
the church.
MCC SCRIP ORDER FORM
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DON'T FORGET TO HELP
Pack the Pantry
Sunday, March 26, 2023
Remember, every Fourth Sunday of the month has been designated as
PACK THE PANTY SUNDAY.
Pack the Pantry Sunday is a time for
you, the people of the church to come together and help support our partnered organizations Food Pantries.
Our Pack the Pantry donations
will go towards supporting:
VIVENT Health Care
Food Pantry
Bring your items SUNDAY, MARCH 26th and place them on the pantry table in the Narthex.
Don't have time to shop? No worries! Make a monetary donation toward
Pack the Panty and we'll do the shopping for you!
If you forget to bring something this Sunday, you can bring your items on any other Sundays as well! You can
also make arrangements to drop things off at the church by contacting the church office to set a drop-off time!
Click below to obtain a list of Pack the Pantry items:
Click Here for Pack the Pantry Shopping List
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Palm Sunday Lunch Fellowship hosted by the Board of Directors following worship on Sunday, April 2nd
You're invited to join us immediately following worship on PALM SUNDAY,
April 2, 2023, for our PALM SUNDAY LUNCH FELLOWSHIP!
Continue celebrating Palm Sunday
with us at our Palm Sunday Lunch Fellowship. Join the board as the host you to a Palm Sunday Potato and Salad Bar followed by our Monthly Birthday/Anniversary Cake for dessert.
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Combined Maundy Thursday Communion Service
April 6, 2022 - 7:00pm
Join us on Maundy Thursday,
April 6th at 7:00pm, at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, as we come together for a combined service with our sisters and brothers from Southeast Clergy Association Communities of Faith, recognizing when Jesus gathered with his disciples, and breaking the bread as symbolism of his body and sharing the cup of his salvation.
Prince of Peace Lutheran Church
4419 South Howell Avenue
Milwaukee 53207
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Combined Good Friday Service
The Seven Last Words
of Christ
April 7, 2022 - 7:00pm
Join us on Good Friday, April 7th
at 7:00pm, at Christ Church United Church of Christ, as we come together for a combined service with our sisters and brothers from Southeast Clergy Association Communities of Faith, as we experience the last days of Christ life as we go to the Cross through The Seven Last Words of Christ.
Christ Church United
Church of Christ
915 East Oklahoma Avenue
Milwaukee, 53207
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Celebrate Palm Sunday at Milwaukee Metropolitan Community Church
April 2, 2023 - 11:00am
Join us on Palm Sunday, April 2nd at 11:00am, for worship, in our sanctuary, as we shout and sing load Hosannas, bless our palms, signifying the triumphant entry of Jesus entering Jerusalem, beginning our journey to Holy Week.
Continue celebrating Palm Sunday
with us at our Palm Sunday Lunch Fellowship. Join the board as the host you to a Palm Sunday Potato and Salad Bar followed by our Monthly Birthday/Anniversary Cake for dessert.
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Join us for EASTER
SUNDAY WORSHIP
Sunday, April 9, 2023
11:00am
Come CELEBRATE and REJOICE as we come together and welcome the triumphant entry of the resurrected Christ on Easter Sunday, April 9th at 11:00am for Easter Worship.
We come together and shouting "CHRIST IS RISEN, CHRIST IS RISEN INDEED!"
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UFMCC LEAD Retreat
Church of the Trinity MCC
Sarasota, FL, USA
June 2-4, 2023
LEAD, Laity Empowered for Active Discipleship, is the UFMCC lay leader certificate program. Since its inception in 2011, there have been 12 North American LEAD cohort groups, as well as LEAD cohort groups in the UK, the Philippines, the European Network
and Australia. We now have 51 LEAD graduates following their call to lay ministry all over the world.
One of the exciting features about this retreat is that most of the expenses for the retreat will be covered by a fund set up by upRising MCC of Austin, TX, USA. Because of the fund, accepted retreat applicants will not pay the Retreat registration fee (normally $350). In addition, Church
of the Trinity will provide housing for participants with its church congregants and provide several
meals during the Retreat. Retreat participants will only need to pay for their travel, plus a $50 matriculation fee, to attend the retreat. In addition, all online courses that are required or are electives for completion of the LEAD program will be paid through the fund (a $600 value). The LEAD scholarship fund, The Judy Dale Scholarship for Lay Leadership, may be used to assist with other fees associated with course work or events necessary for the completion of the LEAD certificate requirements.
Applications will be processed on a “first come, first served” basis until May 1, or until 18 applicants have been accepted to attend the Retreat.
Applications can be found by clicking:
Applications
More information about the LEAD program can be found in the North American LEAD Manual by clicking:
Information About L.E.A.D.
Questions about the retreat or the LEAD program can be directed to
Elder Nancy Maxwell at: NancyMaxwell@MCCchurch.net.
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Survey on LGBTQI+ Acceptance in the
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa areas
Gundersen Health System is currently doing a survey to evaluate how effective language is used in religious communities amongst specific denominations and congregations in the Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa areas.
You’re invited to take a confidential online survey that will take about 10 minutes is you are:
Over the age of 18
Identify currently or historically with both/or LGBTQI+ identity, religious identity, or interest in either.
Identify as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, or any sexual minority identity (trans inclusive).
Reside within Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa.
You can access the survey from the QR Code below or going to:
LGBTQI+ Survey
There is also an option to enter a raffle to win one of ten gift card valued at $10
For questions and further information, you can contact Andrea Arenz at Gundersen Medical Foundation or at 608-775-1012, Ext. 51012 or email at:
Andrea.Arenz@gundersenhealth.org
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If you auto-give, through your financial institution, or already give online, we THANK YOU. But, if you have typically placed your gifts in the offering plate each Sunday, we also offer other options when giving to the church.
There are several ways YOU can make either a one-time donation or even a recurring donation. Here are the ways you can make that happen:
- Through our Secure Online Giving Portal, or either of our two PayPal links. You can go to our Secure Online Giving Portal and/or our PayPal Giving Link for your regular offering or one time giving. You can also go through our regular PayPal Link if you’re wanting to start and set-up a recurring monthly giving for your offering. Click on either of the links below to make that happen.
- You can mail your offering via check or credit card by using one of the pre-printed offering envelopes that have been distributed to all our members. Simply insert your check in the envelope or complete the information on the inner flap, should you choose to donate by credit card, and return it by mail. If you are in need envelopes, please contact the church, either by leaving us a message or emailing us at info@milmcc.org. We will be happy to send some to you.
- You can send your offering via check in a regular addressed envelope to: Milwaukee Metropolitan Community Church, 1239 West Mineral Street, Milwaukee, WI 53204.
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You can go to our website at www.milwaukeemcc.org/giving to do your giving.
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Reverend Tory V. Topjian (Moderator)
David Huibregtse (Vice-Moderator), Mark Mickelson (Clerk),
Allan Hauth, Dan Nelson, Chris Stockdale and Britt Saunders (Members at Large)
Milwaukee Metropolitan Community Church
1239 West Mineral Street
Milwaukee, WI 53204
414-383-1100 • info@milmcc.org
Website - www.milwaukeemcc.org
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