Just a quick invitation and something to reflect on.
We have two Holy Week services this week, one on Thursday and one Friday. And, of course, I hope you will plan to join us for worship on Easter Sunday. If you have family or friends in town, bring them along. I’d love to meet them. And feel free to invite a friend or two.
Maundy Thursday
Join us at 6:30 pm this Thursday for a brief contemplative service with hand anointing and communion in remembrance of the Last Supper. “Maundy” means mandate: the command that we love one another as Christ has loved us.
Good Friday
Our Sanctuary will be open all day (starting at 9 am), with continuous audio from our 2014 service of “Seven Last Words of Christ from the Cross,” featuring standout preaching from some of our favorite pastors and special guests – Rev. Dr. Curtiss DeYoung Rev. Runney Patterson, Rev. Vicente Pérez, Rev. Cynthia Williams, Min. Steven Belton, Rev. Cecilia Williams, and Rev. Kevin Farmer. Come and go as you need; the full rotation of “words” is about 90 minutes. We will hold a Good Friday service at 6:30 pm with family-friendly interactive stations.
Join us on Easter Sunday!
Our Easter Sunday service (10 am) is always a highlight with a blooming Easter Garden and extra-special music. And there will be snacks and coffee in the Gathering Room afterward, too.
For your reflection
And finally, for your reflection this Holy Week, let me offer these words from M. Shawn Copeland:
If we, who would be his disciples, recall the night before Jesus died, we are led to a table, from a table to a garden, from a garden to a courtyard, from a courtyard to a hill, from a hill to a grave, from a grave to life. The table holds the self-gift of his very flesh and blood; the garden is watered by his tears and blood; and the cross holds him, even as the One whom he knows and loves lifts him up from the grave to release him into the surprise of hope and life.
—M. Shawn Copeland, Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience
Much love to you, my friends,
Pastor Gregg
