Announcements
We offer two services on Sundays. Morning Prayer at 8:30am and Morning Worship at 10:15am online and in-person, with Sunday School for all ages at 9:15am.
Please join Mayflower's Plymouth Guild on Tuesday, May 12th, at 10:30am in the church Parlor as we welcome Mayflower's Senior Minister, Rev. Dr. Lori Walke, J.D. We've asked Lori to share news and updates about the church kitchen renovation currently taking place and to catch us up on the life and work of the church. This promises to be an engaging and informative meeting. Plymouth Guild is open to everyone, so we hope you can join us.
Afterward, we will gather for lunch at the Belle Isle Brewery Restaurant at 50 Penn Place, 1900 Northwest Expy, Oklahoma City.
This will be our last meeting before the summer break. When we meet again in September, we will have lots to share with one another.
WEBS new book is Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth by Daisy Hernández
WEBS meets weekly in person in the Seekers Room and on Zoom for engaging discussions on Wednesdays at 5:30pm.
Reframing our understanding of what it means to be an American, Citizenship is an urgent and necessary account of the laws, customs, and language we use to include and exclude, especially those who come from Latin America. At once bracing, fearless, and tender, this book is a powerful portrait of one family's experiences in the borderlands of citizenship and an honest illumination of the country in which we live.
Student Registration
If you are the grown-up of a child from birth to fifth grade, please complete this new information form for each child in your care. This information will help us plan and serve our youngest participants both now and in the future. If you have any questions, please contact Joanna Goodwin, joanna@mayflowerucc.org.
SOLACE, Mayflower’s youth group, meets in person for Sunday School and Wednesday evening youth group meetings. If you or a student in 6th-12th grade you know is interested in joining SOLACE, you can email the youth minister, Amanda Girdler, by clicking the button below.
Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead is, at its heart, a letter from a dying Congregationalist minister to his young son. It is a meditation on faith, mortality, grace, and what it means to have lived a life in service to God and community. It is also, many would argue, one of the finest works of American literature of the last century.
Rev. Sheridan Irick invites you to read it with her as the next installment of Theology Through Fiction. We'll meet in person and online May 12th, 19th, and 26th at 6pm and Sheridan will lead a discussion exploring the theological currents running through Robinson's story, and what they might stir in us. Online and in person. Childcare is provided.
Gilead is not divided into chapters; but the following page numbers and paragraph breaks will serve as our weekly divisions.
- Tuesday, May 12: pg 78, through the paragraph ending "I don't remember enjoying it particularly."
- Tuesday, May 19: pg 166, through the paragraph ending "And John Ames adds his amen."
- Tuesday, May 26: through end of novel
If you've already read Gilead, this is a rare chance to go deeper. If you haven't, there's no better reason to pick it up.
We celebrate our graduating high school seniors in worship on Sunday, May 17th, in Morning Worship at 10:15am, sending them into their next chapter with our blessing and a gift! If you have a graduating senior who wants to be recognized, please complete this form. Contact our Youth Director, Amanda Girdler, with questions.
Join us for an evening of stillness and beauty Saturday, May 17, at 6pm as Belle Voce, Mayflower's Ensemble in Residence, presents Solace in Music under the direction of Eric Hileman. All are welcome to step into this space and leave a little more grounded than when you arrived.
Mayflower Handbell Rehearsals
Our next handbell module is Sunday, May 24th. Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit and is widely regarded as the birthday of the church.
Rehearsals are as follows:
Have questions? Contact Clint Williams, Director of Music.
Rehearsals are as follows:
- Sunday, May 10 (after worship. This is Mothers' Day, but we will be done by noon at the latest)
- Sunday, May 17 (after worship)
- Saturday, May 23 (run through, time TBD)
- Sunday, May 24 (9:15 rehearsal, 10:15 service)
Have questions? Contact Clint Williams, Director of Music.
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Once you have the app, please be sure to allow notifications. It's the best way we have of letting you know about church closures during inclement weather.
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