To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. -  C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
 

LGBT & FRIENDS
LGBT & Friends' upcoming meeting, "A Conversation on the Public Witness of the Christian Life," will be lead by Drew Stockstill.  The discussion, including dinner, will be in Fellowship Hall tonight, April 15 at 7 p.m. All are welcome. RSVP to lgbtandfriends@morningsidepc.org.

3RD THURSDAY THEOLOGY
It's time to think theologically again. Everyone is welcome to bring a sack lunch for the study meeting in Baron's office this Thursday, April 17 at 12 noon. RSVP to the church office if you would like to attend.

HOLY WEEK BANNERS
Banner #1 is entitled "Grace of the Earth."  The green fabrics and batik prints of foliage represent the path strewn with branches and palm leaves laid to honor Jesus as he entered Jerusalem.  The batiks show the clouding of the sun in the sky with gray-green shading.  The fabrics move from light to dark representing the impending crucifixion.
Banner #2 is entitled "God's Power in our Midst" and symbolizes the night of Jesus' arrest and ultimately the crucifixion.  The rust and gold batiks visually interpret the blood moon with the brown, gold and dark batiks left to represent the wrenching agony of the event.  Again, the fabric coloring moves from light to dark representing the power of God's love of humanity through Christ's life, death and resurrection.

MAUNDY THURSDAY
On Thursday, April 17, we will begin the night in Fellowship Hall with a Mediterranean style dinner at 6:15 before our 7 p.m. Maundy Thursday worship service. Child care is available for the dinner and the worship service.

GOOD FRIDAY
On Good Friday, April 18 MPC will join with other area Presbyterian congregations for an introspective evening service. Combining pastors, members and musicians from Central, Druid Hills, MPC, and Shallowford Presbyterian churches, the service this year will be held at Shallowford at 7:30 p.m.

EASTER EGG HUNT
MPC's annual Easter Egg Hunt is this Saturday, April 19 at 11 a.m. Everyone is welcome. Bring your basket and invite your neighbor. Join us at 10:45 a.m. on the front lawn for activities prior to the hunt.

EASTER SUNDAY
We will offer two traditional services this Sunday, April 20 in our Sanctuary at 8:30 and 11 a.m. During both services, we will take our annual collection for One Great Hour of Sharing. Our gifts support ministries of disaster response, refugee assistance and community development. 

YOUTH GROUP 
CONGRATULATIONS TO
Charles and Tish Woolley on the birth of their daughter Emmeline Ann Woolley on April 4 (siblings are Lily and Ryder).
 
PRAYER LIST