Mother's Day

THE PINK ROSE: a gathering for celebration, hope, and wholeness

Mother's Day is a day of delight and joy for many women and their children. Yet, for many women (and men), Mother's Day can be a very difficult time... a time of great pain and scarring memories. For some, there are memories of mothers no longer alive on this earth. For others, memories of children lost through miscarriage, stillbirth, SIDS, accident, injury, or illness. For others, the heartbreak of hoping for children while dealing with infertility. And still others, memories of children or mothers emotionally disconnected from them. And there are even more reasons why authentic worship must move beyond merely celebrating an idealized picture of "motherhood" and move towards celebration and hope in the context of suffering and pain, of healing and wholeness.

"The Pink Rose: A Gathering for Celebration, Hope, and Wholeness" strives to do just that.

Mother's Day 2009 at First Presbyterian-Lake Crystal will be a unique, contemporary-eclectic-liturgical, meaningful and poignant worship gathering built around the motif of "The Pink Rose," a sermon preached in 1997 and published in 1998 by Jeanne Stevenson Moessner.

First Presbyterian Church in Lake Crystal is a gathering of imperfect people transformed by the unconditional love and amazing grace of God. We strive to reflect the hospitality of God as "A House of Prayer for All Peoples."

Worship begins at 10:00am. A gathering for juice and donuts and Fair Trade Coffee and good conversation begins officially at 9:30, although many arrive as early as 9:00. Everyone is welcome.