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Some More Light Sunday possibilities:

• Organize a membership drive at your church. ()
• Show one of the MLP Hearts & Minds videos at a church adult education class.
  
  Volume 1 features Michael Adee, National Field Organizer for More Light Presbyterians. Michael describes his upbringing in a small Louisiana town, the effect his coming-out had on family and friends, and his experiences as an openly gay elder in the Presbyterian Church.
  
  Volume 3, "Christian Values," includes voices of Christian laypeople and ministers who share their views on the Bible and the church, as well as telling their own stories.
  
  Volume 4 features Heather Reichgott, a Presbyterian, out lesbian, and graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary, who talks about her coming out process, the growth of her Christian faith, and her call to ministry and leadership in a Christian denomination not ready to fully accept her.
   

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Worship Resources

Scripture Reflections on the lectionary readings for June 6, 2010 by Rev. Chuck Booker-Hirsch.

Sample Orders of Worship
Northside Presbyterian Church, Ann Arbor MI
MLP Retreat & Mission Weekend, New Orleans LA, November 2006
St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma City OK, June 2005

Affirmations and Confessions of Sin:
Ten Affirmations
Completed by the Working Group on Religion and Spirituality, Pittsburgh

Confession of Sin
based on the Ten Affirmations

Affirmation of Faith
based on the Ten Affirmations

Hymns from the Presbyterian hymnal:

3	Comfort, Comfort You My People
332	Live Into Hope
339	Be Thou My Vision
358	Help Us Accept Each Other
364	I Sing a Song of the Saints of God
369	I'm Gonna Live So God Can Use Me
370	Just As I Am, Without One Plea
377	Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore
384	O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
404	Precious Lord, Take My Hand
411	Arise, Your Light Is Come
425	Lord of Light, Your Name Outshining
507	I Come with Joy
525	Here I Am, Lord
600	Song of Mary (Magnificat)

   Additional hymns
Hymns provided here are for reference only - music directors are responsible for managing any legal usage requirements.

We Limit Not the Truth of God
In the Desert Where They'd Wandered
Faces and Facets
The Love That Goes Unspoken
Though the Spirit's Gifts are Many
Contributed hymns
For all the Saints - alternate lyrics
We Are Called – alternate lyrics. Sheet musicGod Made From One Blood - sung to Immortal, Invisible
Guide Us To Openness- sung to Faithfulness More Light Lectionary Reflections for June 10, 2010

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 – 8:22 The LORD created me at the beginning of (God’s) work, the first of (God’s) acts of long ago ... 8:27 When (God) established the heavens, I was there, when (God) drew a circle on the face of the deep ..." (New Revised Standard Version – NRSV)These verses evoke the verse “Outwitted” by the late American poet Edwin Markham:      He drew a circle that shut me out —
    Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
    But Love and I had the wit to win:
    We drew a circle that took him in! God's circle is always larger than those we may draw. And we are established, and we are called to establish others, in the middle of that circle. In the words of the Carter Family's timeless spiritual, "Let the circle be unbroken." Psalm 8 – When was the last time you ever heard yourself referred to by the church as "made ... a little lower than God"? (v.5a)  Not often, perhaps. What does it mean to you that you have been created in the image of God? Romans 5:1-5 – What is your own personal testimony/witness from suffering to endurance to character to hope, as Paul outlines it here?      Verse five reads in the NRSV, "and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us." Per the 2007 More Light Sunday theme, how does God's love liberate us from hopelessness through the Holy Spirit? John 16:12-15 – Reflect on the words "God has yet more light to shed on God's people" and Jesus' words today in the NRSV, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, (God) will guide you into all the truth."   How might these statements overlap? Can a promise yet to be realized be truly liberating? Per the Romans passage today, is this the hope that "does not disappoint us"? Passages to supplement the lectionary
John 17:20-21, Jesus prays that All may be One
1 Samuel 18:1-5, 20:1-42, The story of David and Jonathan
Ruth 1:1-18, Ruth and Naomi
John 4:1-42, The call and ministry of the Samaritan woman
Romans 16:1-16, Paul greets fellow ministers in various family configurations  Declaration of Debrecen
Affirmed by the 214th General Assembly (2002) of the PCUSA, as adopted by the 23rd General Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC).

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Previous More Light Sundays

June 3, 2007: See Michael's article on Stonewall, Pride month and More Light Sunday 2007
June 11, 2006: See our June 2006 summary article
June 5, 2005: See our June 2005 summary article
June 6, 2004: See our July 2004 summary article