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Post from the Pastor
Holy Week is a really busy time in the life of the church. We start planning for Lent and Holy Week even before we are finished with Advent and Christmas! To me, Holy Week is a beautiful time of reflection that allows us to move from the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, to the growing fear and urgency in the city, and then to the celebration of the Passover meal (the Last Supper), to the arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, to the trial with Pontius Pilate, to the ugliness of the crucifixion, to the sadness of the burial and then ultimately to the joy and hope of the resurrection.
Your worship team has carefully crafted a week of opportunities to help you experience the rollercoaster of emotions embedded in Holy Week. The week moves from the Easter Cantata on Palm Sunday, to the Seder Dinner on Maundy Thursday, to the Good Friday dramatic musical presentation of the People at the Foot of the Cross, to the Sunrise Service at the White Street Pier, and then to our Traditional service filled with a big, bold, beautiful brass instrumental music and our incredible choir, as well as a fun, interactive Children’s Sermon. Holy Week will have every emotion covered and be a sensory delight for your soul! I hope you will take part in all that the week has to offer.
I want to especially encourage you to attend the Good Friday service at 7:30pm in the sanctuary for an emotional and meaningful presentation of music and monologues from those who were at the foot of the cross when Jesus died. It has been said that the empty tomb means nothing without the cross. While most people attend church only on Easter morning, I guarantee you that the Easter service will be even more meaningful for you if you join us on Good Friday for our service, which will end in darkness and silence. As your pastor, I am asking you to join us, because I know you will be blessed.
44 It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, 45 for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.”[e] When he had said this, he breathed his last. (Luke 23:44-46)
Grace and Peace
-Pastor Madeline
