{"id":3519,"date":"2018-10-19T17:07:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2018-12-01T09:12:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T14:12:14","slug":"3519","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3519","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, Oct 21, 2018 &#8211; 22nd Sunday after Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"\/sermons\/2018\/102118_Sermon.mp3\" download=\"audio\/mp3\"> click to download 10\/21 Sermon <\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> &#8220;Reflection: Born That Way: Growing Up and Out\u201d<br \/>\nPreaching: Rev Emma Chattin <\/strong><em><br \/>\nJoin us for the Third in our Sermon Series celebrating Rev Troy Perry&#8217;s founding of UFMCC on Oct 6, 1968 &#8211; Its our 50th Anniversary year!<br \/>\nTwo of the biggest events which left their marks on our denomination: the horrific 1973 fire in the upper room of the New Orleans lounge,<br \/>\nand the AIDS pandemic which ravaged our communities in the 1980&#8217;s.<br \/>\nHow can the story of UFMCC during this time help us in our own journey?<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/7ed73837001\/2123d0d0-376f-485b-8502-bd093be3d11b.pdf\"><br \/>\nFirst Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-14<br \/>\nSecond Reading: ~ adapted from<br \/>\n &#8220;Ezekiel Understands AIDS: Reading the Bible with HIV&#8221;<br \/>\n      by Rev. Jim Mitulski in &#8220;Take Back The Word: a queer reading of the Bible&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/AIDS-Quilt-sm.jpg\"><br \/>\nMCC NoVA hosted a panel of the AIDS Quilt for World AIDS Day Dec 3rd, 2000<br \/>\n<br \/> Sunday morning worship  &#8230; Come Join Us at 11AM on a Sunday Morning! <strong><br \/>\nCelebrating the 50th Anniversary of Metropolitan Community Church <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click to download 10\/21 Sermon &#8220;Reflection: Born That Way: Growing Up and Out\u201d Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin Join us for the Third in our Sermon Series celebrating Rev Troy Perry&#8217;s founding of UFMCC on Oct 6, 1968 &#8211; Its our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=3519\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunday-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}