Montclair Presbyterian Church

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On Sunday, October 28th, the Mission Study Team will unveil the final version of the Mission Study Report!  Please join us in our Celebration service on the 28th so we can thank and dismiss our Mission Study Team and so that you can receive a hard copy version of the Mission Study!  One copy will be given to each household/family in the church.  Once you have received the hard copy, if you would prefer to look at it online or keep it online, you can give the hard copy version back to the office so we can re-use it as we send copies to potential pastor candidates and other interested parties.  See you on October 28th for this exciting event!

INTERGENERATIONAL STORYTELLING GAMES AND DINNER with professional storyteller Muriel Johnson this Sunday, October 14, 4-6 p.m. We’ll open with some mixers and then Muriel will tell us a story about a childhood experience with a bully, and share what she learned by developing the story. We will then break into small, multi-generational groups to explore our personal stories. We’ll wrap up with a lasagna and pizza dinner and an open mic opportunity for those who wish to share their story. Suggested donation of $5 per person to cover food costs. Please contact Cynthia Cudaback or Rev. Katie Morrison to let us know you’re coming: 510-808-4075, cynthia.cudaback@gmail.com or katie@mpcfamily.org. Hope to see you there!
Sponsored by Family Life.

EXPERIENCE LIFE’S SEASONS: From baseball to camel races to wild & woolly bus trips to Mexico in this year’s Works in Progress program. Join us THIS SUNDAY, September 30, at 1:30 pm in the Thornhill Room. Jim Allardice, Cliff King and Carol Wolleson will read from their masterful accounts of life In Season. Cost is $5 and includes refreshments.

Ancient Stories, Modern Anthropology, and Brunch!  The book of Genesis could be a modern novel or soap opera.  It is almost unmatched in terms of family drama.  There are brothers who kill brothers, mothers who would like to kill their husbands’ other wives … and, of course, the Creation stories, the Flood story and the Famine.  The culture of the Holy Land is strange to us, now.  Come, hear how the stories of Genesis communicate to the people of Timor in their local language. International Scholar, Adriana Dukabain, an Indonesian DMin student at Graduate Theological Union (GTU), came to a new understanding of the culture around her while field-testing her new translation of the book of Genesis.  Ancient stories, modern anthropology, and superb teaching methods.  If you want to help with food, we’ll have some Indonesian main dishes, so salads, sides, drinks and desserts are welcome.  Or put a small donation in the expense basket and come unencumbered.  Contact Jean Norris, (510) 535-0498. This Sunday, September 23, Global Concerns Brunch, in the Thornhill Room, at 11:30 am or immediately after the Congregational Meeting.

On Tuesday, September 18th at 7pm, author and journalist Douglas Foster will be coming to MPC to talk about his new book: After Mandela: The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa. The book, the result of five years’ work in South Africa, is an analysis of Mandela’s impact on the region and of what his passing may mean for the entire continent. The presentation will include recordings of interviews of South Africans, a time for Q&A, and the opportunity to buy an autographed copy of the book.

Parking will be available in the lot at nearby Thornhill Elementary School (see below); more parking info and directions info are available on MPC’s parking and directions page.

The book talk is co-sponsored by Great Good Place for Books in Montclair. You’ll have the option of purchasing the book from them right after the talk.