{"id":4181,"date":"2019-06-14T08:16:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2019-06-29T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T13:43:16","slug":"sunday-june-16-pridetide-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"Sunday June 16 &#8211; Pridetide 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to listen to the Sermon for 6\/16\/19 <audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2019-24\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/sermons\/2019\/061619_Sermon.mp3?_=24\" \/><a href=\"\/sermons\/2019\/061619_Sermon.mp3\"><br \/>\n\/sermons\/2019\/0616919_Sermon.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/><strong><br \/>\nReflection: &#8220;Ruth, Naomi, Boaz: What do We Make of them?&#8221;<br \/>\nPreaching: Rev Emma   <\/strong><em><br \/>\nWhat do we make of them?  A future!<br \/>\nThe Bible is filled with wonderful images of unconventional families!<br \/>\nWe who often form unconventional and chosen families&#8230; OMG<br \/>\nHow could we have missed this? <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/7ed73837001\/03065742-cfb2-40d7-89f2-29bdb5fd5427.pdf\"><br \/>\nFirst Reading: Ruth 3:1-5, 4:13-17<br \/>\nSecond Reading: ~ adapted from &#8216;The Queer Innovation of a Family based on Choice and Necessity&#8217; From SKS, MS on EFNIKS.com (for queer and trans people of color)<br \/>\nThird Reading: ~ adapted from Alexandra Billings, actress, teacher, singer, and one of the first transgender women to portray a transgender character on television<\/a><br \/>\nPlus a Special Contemporary Witness by Catherine Krebs!<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nOn Sunday June 16, during our regular worship service, there will be a special blessing for Frank Vance and Cathryn Krebs as they prepare for kidney transplant surgery on June 21 (Cathryn will be donating a kidney to Frank).  Following worship, Frank is providing the meal for our hospitality time as a feast of Thanksgiving.  All are welcome!<\/small><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/FC-KidneyBlessing.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><\/em>Sunday morning worship  &#8230; Come Join Us at 11AM on a Sunday Morning! <strong><br \/>\nMCC of NORTHERN VIRGINIA celebrated its 38th Anniversary April 21!<br \/>\nCelebrating 51 years of Metropolitan Community Churches Worldwide!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to listen to the Sermon for 6\/16\/19 \/sermons\/2019\/0616919_Sermon.mp3 Reflection: &#8220;Ruth, Naomi, Boaz: What do We Make of them?&#8221; Preaching: Rev Emma What do we make of them? A future! The Bible is filled with wonderful images of unconventional &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=4181\">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-4181","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\/4181","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=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}