Holy Week & Easter Services

Holy Week Services

• Palm/Passion Sunday:  March 29 at 11:00am
• Maundy Thursday Service with Holy Communion:  April 2 at 7pm
• Good Friday Tenebrae Service: - April 3 at 7pm

 

Easter Sunday - April 5

• Easter Sunrise Vigil:  7:00am
• Easter Egg Hunt:  8:10am
• Easter Breakfast:  8:30am
• Resurrection of our Lord with Holy Communion:  10:00am

 

 

Notes about Easter Sunday:

• The Sunrise service will be a modified Vigil service this year.  We will gather at 7am, in darkness, and will recall God's saving action throughout history as told and staged by our kids, youth, and adults as we wait for the dawn to celebrate the light of Christ.
• There is a sign-up sheet for the Easter Breakfast in the narthex
• 10am  is the time for the late service will Holy Communion.  10am,  NOT  11!  If you wish, you may bring flowers to help flower our cross during this service.  (see the cross pictured above standing beside the doorway)

Flooring Project Complete

The big reveal!

 Thanks to everyone who helped with ALL aspects of this project.  It went very smoothly because of all the help we had at every stage.

Sanding Trim

Staining

Dusting top to bottom

Staining

Putting everything back together

Wiring

Polishing

Puzzle-piecing the pews back in order

Done!

Hunger Banquet and Hunger Simulation

We had a great turn-out at our first Lenten Study on Hunger and Poverty

On Feb. 22 we had a Hunger Banquet, in which our meals represented hunger or plenty around the world.

Afterwards, we did a Hunger Simulation, in which participants took on the roles of people living in food insecurity and tried to procure enough food for their families for a week.

Both experiences were very eye-opening.





Filling out SNAP applications at the "Human Services Office"



Trying to calculate & buy food at the "grocery store"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Join us for our upcoming Studies, Sunday evenings in Lent, beginning with a meal at 5pm:

• March 1 – What’s the Bible say about hunger and poverty?
•  March 8 – What’s the true need, how do we know who’s truly needy, and what do we do?
•  March 15 – Christian response
• March 22 – Service Project

 

Or join us in a suggested Lenten discipline: fasting for one meal/week, and donating the money you would have spent on that meal to a cause to alleviate hunger.  We will be collecting this money on Sunday evenings, as well as Sunday mornings in the narthex.  The discipline of fasting, spending a few hours with the physical discomfort of being "hungry" and the mental and emotional toll that takes will hopefully remind us of what we're doing, as well as of Jesus' sacrifice, and may give us a greater drive to help alleviate hunger for all people for whom Christ died.

 

God bless us in our Lenten disciplines, that we may draw closer to Christ.

Ash Wednesday Service Canceled

Ash Wednesday Service Canceled

for tonight

For your personal devotions, the readings for Ash Wednesday are:

Joel 2:1-2,12-17

Psalm 51

2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

Matthew 6:1-6,16-21

Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return...

 

Shrove Tuesday Canceled

Our Shrove Tuesday Pancake

Supper has been canceled.

Stay safe and warm!

Cancellation

Council Meeting,

Sunday School,

and

Worship

have been cancelled this morning (2/15).

Please stay warm and safe!

Flooring Project Underway

We had GREAT participation for getting our sanctuary ready on Sunday for our flooring to begin.

The folks at Bethany are always ready and willing to work!

The floor all sanded on Monday

Our worship space for a short while (basement)