{"id":4550,"date":"2019-12-14T09:23:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T14:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2019-12-21T09:52:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T14:52:28","slug":"sunday-dec-15-advent-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/?p=4550","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Dec 15 &#8211; Advent 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to listen to the Sermon for 12\/15\/19 <audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2019-50\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/sermons\/2019\/121519_Sermon.mp3?_=50 \/><a href=\"\/sermons\/2019\/121519_Sermon.mp3\"><br \/>\n\/sermons\/2019\/121519_Sermon.mp3<\/a><\/audio><BR><br \/>\n<strong> Rev. Emma Chattin, Preaching<\/strong><em><br \/>\nReflection: Still&#8230; Joy <\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/7ed73837001\/d28a115b-0359-40bb-9d2e-11abd7ffcd18.pdf\"><br \/>\nFirst Reading:  Isaiah 35:1-10 The Joyful Return<br \/>\nSecond Reading: Homecoming, adapted from Rachel Held Evans in &#8220;Searching For Sunday&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/a><!-- img src=\"images\/2019AdventSeason.jpg\" --><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/20191215-Altar.jpg\"><br \/>\nSunday 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<hr>\n<p>\n<em><strong>DECEMBER CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL MEETING <\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nSunday, Dec 15th, our yearly Congregational Meeting will be held after worship.<br \/>\nChurch members will vote on the 2020 Church Budget, for church Board members, and Lay Delegate.<br \/>\nAnd, there will be an All Church Potluck lunch Dec 15th to sustain us!<br \/>\nCheck your email for a link to the Congregational Meeting Packet (18 pages).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click below to listen to the Sermon for 12\/15\/19<\/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-4550","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\/4550","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=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4557,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions\/4557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccnova.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}