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We encourage you to park in parking lots A & C. These are the lots closest to the MPR. They will also be best to allow easy access to all of our 9 a.m. offerings and easy access to your vehicle following worship. If you park in those lots you can enter the building through the four entrances marked on the map above to get to your 9 a.m. Bible studies and worship.
Our coffee & pastries fellowship will occur in the café area at the rear of the MPR. Come on into the MPR at 10 a.m. and enjoy a time of fellowship before worship begins - you can expect the same spread we typical offer in the Narthex, just nearer to our summer worship space.
FirstKIDS Check-In will be available in two locations this summer. If your child(ren) will be attending nursery, preschool worship, or kids worship, you can print their nametag at either the Bell Tower or the Promiseland Lobby before your family heads into worship.
Kids ages 3 & up will join their families for (at least part of) the worship service. This summer our kids will begin the service each week with their families in the Multipurpose Room. There will be a point in the service when they'll be invited to their own worship environments, Preschool Worship (3 year old-PreK) and Kids Worship (K-5th Grade), if they and their families choose for them to do so. For kids younger than 3, the nursery will be available throughout the worship service.
We're introducing a "pray-ground" in worship. This space is designed as an integrated part of our congregational seating, with a simple invitation: a space for wonder and worship. We've created this space because we believe children and youth belong in worship - not on the sidelines, but right in the center of our shared life with God. The pray-ground gives our youngest worshippers a dedicated space to see, hear, and participate in the service in age-appropriate and meaningful ways, using quiet tools to help them focus, engage, and feel at home. There is something significant about children being present and a part when scripture is read, prayers are spoken, and our congregation sings together. This space is for children and their families and we warmly invite adults to sit nearby to support and worship alongside them. We also know that movement and sound can make it harder for some to focus in worship, and we want every person to be able to fully engage. If this is true for you, please feel free to sit further from the pray-ground, along the window-side of the room or further back. We are excited about this part of our holy experiment as children, youth, and adults all find their space to worship together!
Most important, don't forget your grace-filled agility! It has been 26 years since our weekly worship services happened in the room we now call the Multipurpose Room. There will be plenty of opportunities for growth and learning for all of us as we adjust to a different venue for worship. Let us remember to show up to worship these ten weeks with flexibility, openness, and leaning into the holy experiment to see what God might have to teach us through it.
It has been wonderful to hear from so many of you about your excitement about this adventure. I've also loved hearing stories of the meaningful experiences and holy encounters you had in this room in past years. It makes me even more excited and fills me with hopeful expectation as we to return to this holy place, together, and see what God might have for us as we encounter God there.
I'll see you Sunday!
Blessings,
Ben
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