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2019 Summer Sermon and Film Series:
“Community”
We have hospitality time after worship Sunday mornings, then our film at 12:30 pm sharp, followed by a group discussion - FREE!
Shortcuts:
Jun 9 (no film)
Jul 7 (no film)
Jul 14 (no film)
Sunday, June 2: Footloose
Re-rated PG for some teen drug and alcohol use, sexual content, violence and language
A modern classic story of teens who are banned from music and dancing, and how they band together in community to reclaim their inherent right to ‘rock and roll.’
Sunday, June 16: Green Book
Rated PG-13 for thematic content, language including racial epithets, smoking, some violence and suggestive material
An African American piano virtuoso embarks on a musical performance tour in the segregated South. He hires a white bodyguard to protect him. This unlikely pair becomes bonded in a way no one could have anticipated as together they meet and stand up to racism and prejudice.
Sunday, June 30: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and language
A documentary of the life and work of Fred Rogers. Inspiring and engaging. His life story will amaze you and take you back to the wonderful world of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
Sunday, July 21: The Upside
Rated PG-13 for suggestive content and drug use
A multi-millionaire suffers paraplegia and depression until an underqualified, no-nonsense African American convict is hired to be his personal assistant. They heal each other’s souls. A true story.
Sunday, July 28: The Greatest Showman
Rated PG for thematic elements including a brawl
The story of P.T. Barnum and how he brings together the Misfits to create a new genre of entertainment and commercial enterprise, unknowingly creating a space for their bonding as a community within the circus world.
Sunday, Aug 4: Paradise Road
Rated R for prisoner of war brutality and violence
When Australia is overrun by Japanese troops in WWII, socialite Australian, English, and American women are taken prisoner. They form community and learn how to survive in a concentration camp by forming a vocal choir and performing for their captors and the other prisoners. A true story.
Sunday, August 11: The Mustang
Rated R for language, some violence
A violent convict is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program centered around the training of wild mustangs. The Mustang is based on an actual rehabilitation program in Carson City, Nevada.
Sunday, August 18: Oliver!
Rated G
In this 1968 award-winning adaptation of the Broadway musical based on the Charles Dickens novel, 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist falls in with a group of street-urchin pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and masterminded by the criminal Fagin. When Oliver's intended mark, Mr. Brownlow, takes pity on the lad and offers him a home, Fagin's henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy to keep him from talking.
Sunday, August 25: A Dog's Journey
Rated PG
Some friendships transcend lifetimes. In this sequel to the heartwarming global hit A Dog’s Purpose, beloved dog Bailey finds his new destiny and forms an unbreakable bond that will lead him, and the people he loves, to places they never imagined.