Sunday Worship - In Person or Zoom
We'd love to see you in person or via Zoom! Please join us!
We'd love to see you in person or via Zoom! Please join us!
Join Our Worship Service via zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97010988439 (a password is required--see below)
Password Info: Because of the threat of "Zoom Bombing," Sunday Morning Online Worship is password protected. If you would like to join us and do not yet have the password please email our very warm and friendly choir director Tom Ludwig at tludwig.rn@gmail.com. Tom will be standing by to welcome you via email and send you the password upon request. We very much want you to be with us, but we also want to do our best to honor the integrity and safety of our worship experience together.
Password Info: Because of the threat of "Zoom Bombing," Sunday Morning Online Worship is password protected. If you would like to join us and do not yet have the password please email our very warm and friendly choir director Tom Ludwig at tludwig.rn@gmail.com. Tom will be standing by to welcome you via email and send you the password upon request. We very much want you to be with us, but we also want to do our best to honor the integrity and safety of our worship experience together.
Sunday Sermons
5-14-23 Sermon: (Mother's Day) "Naomi, The Black Madonna, & Sarah's Song"
This message begins with a retelling of the basic story of the book of Ruth. I focus though on Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi, who experienced the death of her husband and two sons. She was a mother who experienced tremendous grief. I then introduce a theological strand called "The Black Madonna," and draw from insights of Andrew Harvey who states that the Black Madonna is about The Mother who was "blackened" by pain and suffering. The message ends with me playing a song about a teenage young woman who had a "maternal" experience of love with an orphan child in Haiti. The audio balance on this song between vocal and guitar is not good, so if you'd prefer to listen to the studio recording of that song, select this link and you'll be taken to it. "Sarah's Song" is track #13 on the album "J-Walking: Songs For Justice Walkers."
YouTube Information
Watch: To watch other sermons, click here and you will be taken to our YouTube Channel playlist for Sermons.
Find: To find a specific sermon, try completing a search on the YouTube Channel "Sermons" playlist webpage. A search of the page be completed with CTRL + F, then type in the keyword. If you can't find a certain one, feel free to contact Pastor Bryan Sirchio (pastorb@mcfarlanducc.org).
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Find: To find a specific sermon, try completing a search on the YouTube Channel "Sermons" playlist webpage. A search of the page be completed with CTRL + F, then type in the keyword. If you can't find a certain one, feel free to contact Pastor Bryan Sirchio (pastorb@mcfarlanducc.org).
Subscribe: To receive notifications whenever new videos are added, click below. You may also subscribe through the YouTube channel.
Our Sanctuary is T-Coil and Hearing Aid Friendly
Our sanctuary is equipped with a hearing loop system that enables persons with
hearing aid devices that have a t-coil switch to have a greatly improved hearing
experience in our sanctuary. McFarland UCC Member Harold Stafford is in
charge of helping folks in our worshiping community understand how this works.
He has put together the following information to help in this regard.
Our sanctuary is equipped with a hearing loop system that enables persons with
hearing aid devices that have a t-coil switch to have a greatly improved hearing
experience in our sanctuary. McFarland UCC Member Harold Stafford is in
charge of helping folks in our worshiping community understand how this works.
He has put together the following information to help in this regard.
