Earth Sunday 2007

On Sunday, April 22nd, MPC celebrated Earth Sunday, with the topic of Food.  In the Adult Forum, Bill Breakey  led a power-point  presentation about global warming and the food we eat, with suggestions for better choices that do less damage to the environment.
   Following this, in the worship service, members of the Environmental Stewardship Team served a "family dinner" beginning with table grace and ending with dessert and coffee. Between this there were readings and  hymns about the joy and blessings of bread, fish, meat, eggs, and water and a ritual of seed planting.
   After the service, the congregation was invited to take a tour of the nature trail and the  the new rain garden,  recently established with a grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust. Then the crew of volunteers set plants in the rain garden and beside the labyrinth. Throughout the nature experience, participants all gloried in the blooming daffodils, Virginia bluebells and other spring flowers and plants. Still punctuated with pachysandra and other non-native plants, the woods is yet more lively in the places these have been cleared away.
    Last year, it rained during all the activity. This year the group was blessed with sunshine and moderate temperatures.      

Here are some visuals of those events:  Enjoy!                                                                                                                                

 Photos by Shirley Christie