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!
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Reflection: Beaches of the Bible:
Fishers Beach II (Fish For Breakfast)
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
When something new ends, do you ever get confused and
want to go backwards instead of forward? It’s easy to do.
Join us this Sunday we reflect on John 21
and Fish for Breakfast.
First Reading: John 21:1-17, 19b
Second Reading: ~ adapted from Leonard Sweet
in “From Table to Table: Where Community is Found
and Identity is Formed”
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Reflection: Beaches of the Bible:
Fishers Beach (You Follow Me?)
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
Do you ever feel a little slow on the uptake
when it comes to all this ‘God Stuff’,
that you may not be fully following everything?
You are no less so than the first followers,
who were very quick to leave their livelihood,
but a little slow to fully follow
what was going on and what came next.
First Reading: Matthew 4:18-22
Second Reading:
~ adapted from A.J. Swoboda in “Messy: God Likes It That Way”
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Reflection: Beaches of the Bible: Jonah’s Beach
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
Sometimes we discover what we are running from
on the very path we took to avoid it.
Join us as we reflect on Jonah’s Beach (Jonah 2).
First Reading ~ Jonah: 2
Second Reading ~ From Parker Palmer in Let Your Life Speak: The Voice of Vocation
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Reflection: Beaches of the Bible: The First Beach”
(And It Was Good)
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
There are some places where we may become aware of something
much larger than ourselves,
something unfathomable, in motion, and mysterious.
Join us as we reflect on The First Beach, Genesis 1:1-10.
First Reading: Genesis 1:1-10
Second Reading: from Matthew Fox in “Original Blessing”
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Reflection: “Family Disunion: Too Close For Comfort”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
Why is it that we always seem to have the most challenges
with those closest to us? Join us as we reflect on those who may
be just a little ‘too close for comfort’ through the lens of Genesis 21:8-21.
First Reading:
Genesis 21:8-21
Second Reading:
~ Adapted From Kahlil Gibran in “The Prophet”
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Pentecost 2 – PRIDETIDE – FATHER’S DAY
Reflection: “The Second Half of Life”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
First Reading:
Genesis 18:1-15
Second Reading:
~ adapted from Sister Joan Chittister in
“Between the Dark and the Daylight: Embracing the Contradictions of Life”
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Reflection: “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”
Preaching: Wendy Hamilton, Clergy Intern
First Reading:
Psalm 139:13-18
Second Reading:
~ adapted from Dr. Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise”
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Reflection: What Does This Mean?
Two Voices, One Reflection –
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin & Duane Bowers
Exciting, disorienting, amazing, disturbing… That Pentecost
long ago was experienced as any one or all of the above.
What does it mean for us today?
First Reading:
Acts 2:1-21
Second Reading:
~ adapted from Marjory Bankson in “How Does Spirit Work”
Reflection: “Out of Sight: Now You See Him… Now You Don’t!”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
How often do we look for God in the last place that we experienced God?
How do we learn how to see differently, to be more uplifting,
to rise above all that hold us back?
Join us this Sunday as we reflect on life through the lens of Acts 1:6-14.
First Reading:
First Reading ~ Acts 1: 6-14
Second Reading:
~from John O’Donohue in Eternal Echoes: Exploring Our Yearning to Belong
Third Reading:
~from Fr. Richard Rohr in Everything Belongs
Reflection: “Feeling for God: The Known Unknown”
Preaching: Rev Emma Chattin
First Reading:
Acts 17: 22-31
Second Reading
~ adapted from Barbara Brown Taylor in An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
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