Welcome to MCC NOVA!

Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia is committed to creating a vital and adventurous spiritual community for all people, preparing for our work in the world through an engaged and growing spirituality that is relevant 24/7. We are a welcoming and affirming progressive spiritual community with a specific outreach to LGBTQI people and our allies who are seeking authentic spirituality and renewal through varied celebration experiences, educational and social enrichment opportunities, and tangible expressions of love through social justice and outreach opportunities.

Whether you are a current member, attender, or a old friend, we would love to see you.
Our worship begins Sunday morning at 11:00 a.m.

Be sure to check the coming events page for happenings in our community!


Sunday May 18, 2025 – Easter V

NEW!! Beginning April 2025, Our 11AM Sunday Worship is live-streamed on the MCC of Northern Virginia YouTube Channel! Join us Online or inPerson. Afterwards, you can watch our archived videos on youtube.com/@MCCNoVA25.
Order of Worship and readings are here (PDF file with songs and Readings)
First Reading ~ Romans 8:26 – 8:30
Second Reading ~ adapted from Martha Beck in “Turning Away from Anxiety”

Ken Williamson – Preaching

TURNAROUND: Turning Away From Fear and Anxiety



MCC NoVA – celebrating 44 Years of Pride in Fairfax! (April 2025)
Celebrating 56 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide! (Oct 2024)
Join us in-Person Sunday at 11 AM-ish at the Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia,
or live-streamed on our FaceBook page.


We are grateful for your continued generosity as we move forward into a future with deep needs and boundless possibilities for our community!
Blessings and Thank You!


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Sunday May 11, 2025 – Easter IV

NEW!! Beginning April 2025, Our 11AM Sunday Worship is live-streamed on the MCC of Northern Virginia YouTube Channel! Join us Online or inPerson. Afterwards, you can watch our archived videos on youtube.com/@MCCNoVA25.
Order of Worship and readings are here (PDF file with songs and Readings)
First Reading ~ Acts 9: 36-43
Second Reading ~ “We Could Use Some Resurrection”, by Rev Nadia Bolz-Weber

Rev. Emma Chattin – Preaching

TURNAROUND: Arise
How do we bring people we need back to life?



MCC NoVA – celebrating 44 Years of Pride in Fairfax! (April 2025)
Celebrating 56 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide! (Oct 2024)
Join us in-Person Sunday at 11 AM-ish at the Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia,
or live-streamed on our FaceBook page.


APRIL 20 WAS ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY!
Celebrating 44 Years of Ministry in Northern Virginia!


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Sunday May 4, 2025 – Easter III

NEW!! Beginning April 2025, Our 11AM Sunday Worship is live-streamed on the MCC of Northern Virginia YouTube Channel! Join us Online or inPerson. Afterwards, you can watch our archived videos on youtube.com/@MCCNoVA25.
Order of Worship and readings are here (PDF file with songs and Readings)
First Reading ~ John 20:19-31
Second Reading ~ adapted from Father Richard Rohr in “The Universal Christ”

Rev. Emma Chattin – Preaching

TURNAROUND: Feeling Is Believing –
Empathy has a way of entering locked spaces and opening the doors of our heart.


MCC NoVA – celebrating 44 Years of Pride in Fairfax! (April 2025)
Celebrating 56 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide! (Oct 2024)
Join us in-Person Sunday at 11 AM-ish at the Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia,
or live-streamed on our FaceBook page.


LiveStreaming – Now on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/@MCCNoVA25


We are grateful for your continued generosity as we move forward into a future with deep needs and boundless possibilities for our community!
Blessings and Thank You!


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Sunday April 27, 2025 – Easter II

NEW!! Beginning April 2025, Our 11AM Sunday Worship is live-streamed on the MCC of Northern Virginia YouTube Channel! Join us Online or inPerson. Afterwards, you can watch our archived videos on youtube.com/@MCCNoVA25.
Order of Worship and readings are here (PDF file with songs and Readings)
First Reading ~ Hebrews 12:1-3
Second Reading ~ from Anne Lamott in “Help is the Sunny Side of Control”

So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
Ken Williamson – Preaching




MCC NoVA – celebrating 44 Years of Pride in Fairfax! (April 2025)
Celebrating 56 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide! (Oct 2024)
Join us in-Person Sunday at 11 AM-ish at the Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia,
or live-streamed on our FaceBook page.


Blessings and Thank You!


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Sunday April 20, 2025 – Easter Sunday

NEW!! Beginning April 2025, Our 11AM Sunday Worship is live-streamed on the MCC of Northern Virginia YouTube Channel! Join us Online or inPerson. Afterwards, you can watch our archived videos on youtube.com/@MCCNoVA25.
Order of Worship and readings are here (PDF file with songs and Readings)
First Reading ~ Luke 24:1-12
Second Reading ~ Earl Holt in “Celebrating Easter in Spring”

Nothing But The Wrappings
Rev Emma Chattin – Preaching




MCC NoVA – celebrating 44 Years of Pride in Fairfax! (April 2025)
Celebrating 56 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide! (Oct 2024)
Join us in-Person Sunday at 11 AM-ish at the Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia,
or live-streamed on our FaceBook page.


APRIL 20 – ANNIVERSARY SUNDAY!
44 Years of Ministry in Northern Virginia!

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

Facility Care
Seeking supportive volunteers to assist with cleaning, upkeep, facility matters, and building maintenance.
If interested in any of these opportunities, please contact RevEmmaChattin@gmail.com


Worship Participation Invited
We have so many gifted people who participate in worship! And we always seek more folks to draw the circle wider!
Are you interested in participating in Worship as an Usher, Communion Prep, Reader, Offering Invitation,
or in the Consecration of Communion? Please Drop Rev. Emma an e/mail!


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Sunday April 13, 2025 – Palm Sunday

NEW!! Beginning April 2025, Our 11AM Sunday Worship is live-streamed on the MCC of Northern Virginia YouTube Channel! Join us Online or inPerson. Afterwards, you can watch our archived videos on youtube.com/@MCCNoVA25.
Order of Worship and readings are here (PDF file with songs and Readings)
First Reading ~ Luke 19:28-40
Second Reading ~ Luke 22:1-13
Third Reading ~ adapted from “In the Name of Jesus” by Henri Nouwen

Love in the Face of Power
Joy in the Face of Oppression
Rev Emma Chattin – Preaching

Busy week for Jesus.



MCC NoVA – celebrating 44 Years of Pride in Fairfax! (April 2025)
Celebrating 56 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide! (Oct 2024)
Join us in-Person Sunday at 11 AM-ish at the Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia,
or live-streamed on our FaceBook page.


Worship Participation Invited
We have so many gifted people who participate in worship! And we always seek more folks to draw the circle wider!
Are you interested in participating in Worship as an Usher, Communion Prep, Reader, Offering Invitation,
or in the Consecration of Communion? Please Drop Rev. Emma an e/mail!


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Sunday April 6, 2025 – Fifth Sunday in Lent

NEW!! Beginning April 2025, Our 11AM Sunday Worship is live-streamed on the MCC of Northern Virginia YouTube Channel! Join us Online or inPerson. Afterwards, you can watch our archived videos on youtube.com/@MCCNoVA25.
Order of Worship and readings are here (PDF file with songs and Readings)
First Reading ~ John 12:1-8
Second Reading ~ adapted from Father Richard Rohr ‘Seeing Our Shadow, Things Hidden’, in “Scripture as Spirituality”

Wilderness Training: Shadows
Rev Emma Chattin – Preaching

Judas advocates for the poor and trolls Jesus. 
Jesus does not take the bait.



MCC NoVA – celebrating 44 Years of Pride in Fairfax! (April 2025)
Celebrating 56 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide! (Oct 2024)
Join us in-Person Sunday at 11 AM-ish at the Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia,
or live-streamed on our FaceBook page.


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Sunday March 30, 2025 – Lent 4

Our Sunday Worship is live-streamed at 11AM on the Facebook Events Page of MCC of Northern Virginia. Join us Online or inPerson.
Afterwards, you can watch our archived videos on youtube.com/@MCCNoVA25.
Order of Worship and readings are here (PDF file with songs and Readings)
First Reading ~ Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Second Reading ~ adapted from Barbara Brown Taylor in “An Alter in the World: A geography of Faith”

Wilderness Training: Lost and Found
Rev Emma Chattin – Preaching

Jesus tells the longest parable in the Bible
(and ‘prodigal’ may not mean what you think it means).



MCC NoVA – celebrating 43 Years of Pride in Fairfax! (April 2024)
Celebrating 56 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide! (Oct 2024)
Join us in-Person Sunday at 11 AM-ish at the Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia,
or live-streamed on our FaceBook page.


BINGO! There were over 45 folks from all over who came to BINGO! and have fun!
There was entertainment! (Thanks Kurt & William & Ken!)
And nearly $700 was raised for MCC of Northern Virginia!
Thanks MEET Group and all who attended and made this evening such a fun and wonderful success!


Next Level LiveStreaming!

Above: Mac Laptop and Switching Controller; Camera Column-3 Cameras & Mac Airport;
Choir Cam View; Altar Cam View of Pulpit

Many things led us to this place. When COVID lockdown occurred in 2020 without ever having done anything like this before, Heather had us live-streaming the very next Sunday. Back then our choir was a choir of One, Heather, singing a cappella. As our choir grew, with Kurt as our Music Minister, and then adding Ken Williamson as Assistant Music Minister, soon the room behind the pulpit became too small. So one day Kurt and Heather came in and resurrected the choir loft risers. Then we needed a way to see the choir. Our AV Tech, Heather, worked on the most economical means to use MultiCamera Switching that would allow live-stream switching between two cameras, and would be compatible with FaceBook, our current platform, as well as with our next platform (In Process)
Big thanks to Heather, Kurt, Vickie, Vanessa!
We ask your patience as we learn the new equipment and welcome your emails about Livestream Feedback (Your donations to cover the expense of the new equipment is also most welcome)!


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Local Events – March 25 – 27, 2025

MARCH 25 FAIRFAX CITY
TRANSGENDER DAY OF VISIBILITY PROCLAMATION

On Tues March 25 at 7 PM at the Fairfax City Hall (10445 Armstrong Street)
Fairfax City presented a Proclamation Declaring March 31
Transgender Day of Visibility!
Trans… Significant Others… Allies…
We had a wonderful attendance supporters and allies there!

Mayor Read Presenting the Proclamation in 2025


Fairfax County Public Schools Pride Unity Rally Thu Mar 27

At its March 27 meeting, the Fairfax County School Board recognized March 31st as the Transgender Day of Visibility. FCPS Pride held a rally beforehand in the front courtyard, and asked folks to join them afterwards in the auditorium for the proclamation! They said the rally will be fun, but the school board will only see the attendees and speakers during the meeting at 7 pm. So, nearly 100 attendees certainly made our community visible, and declared to our trans community: “We stand with you!”

Rev Emma had been asked to speak beforehand – and she gave an inspiring speech.

And this exceptional image from the FCPS Pride site showing all the folks assembled for a photo op with the FCPS Board
For more info on FCPS Pride, Click the photo below to visit their website !


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Sunday March 22, 2025 – Lent 3

Our Sunday Worship is live-streamed at 11AM on the Facebook Events Page of MCC of Northern Virginia. Join us Online or inPerson.
Afterwards, you can watch our archived videos on youtube.com/@MCCNoVA25.
Order of Worship and readings are here (PDF file with songs and Readings)
First Reading ~ Luke 13:1-9
Second Reading ~ adapted from Father Richard Rohr in “A Toxic Image of God”

Wilderness Training: Bad Water and Mirages
Rev Emma Chattin – Preaching

The wilderness reveals that there is nothing to fear about tomorrow (and the day after that).



MCC NoVA – celebrating 43 Years of Pride in Fairfax! (April 2024)
Celebrating 56 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide! (Oct 2024)
Join us in-Person Sunday at 11 AM-ish at the Metropolitan Community Church of Northern Virginia,
or live-streamed on our FaceBook page.


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