This week at EBUMC
Happenings for the Week of March 1
March 2
Pickleball 6-7:30pm (FLC)
Trustees 6pm (7)
March 3
Food Pantry 10:30-12 (FLC)
March 4
Prayer 6:00am (sanctuary)
Lenten Bible Study - noon (7) - bring your bible
Short meeting to talk about the upcoming 160th Anniversary of EUMC April 12 - 1:00pm (7)
Praise Band 5:30pm (FLC)
March 5
RSA, 9:30-5:30pm (FLC)
Pickleball, 6-7:30pm (FLC)
Chancel Choir, 6:30pm (Rm. 7)
March
OYSTER & BBQ DINNER 5pm (FLC)
Sunday Worship is Live.
cONTEMPORARY wORSHIP: 9:00
Traditional Worship: 11:15
You can also join live on Facebook and Youtube
Pastor’s Corner
I have been inviting us to grow spiritually and to walk closer to God. One of the ways we do that is to read and experience the scriptures. As Methodists, we also sing our faith. We have several special opportunities to dive deeper into our faith each year. One of the milestones in the Christian year is Holy Week, which is the week before Easter. Highlights include Holy Thursday and Good Friday. Like the last three years, these will be two special worship times to come together and walk with Christ through His last days. This year, we will be hearing monologues, interpreted from the Gospel of Matthew. Come hear Judas, Peter, Caiaphas the Chief Priest, Pontious Pilate and others tell their side of the story.
Holy Thursday (4/2) will begin in the FLC at 6pm. We will have a simple supper, and begin to tell the story. We will celebrate Holy Communion when the story has Jesus having His last supper. When Jesus and the disciples move to the garden, the whole congregation will move to the prayer garden in front of the sanctuary. And when Jesus is arrested in the garden, we will all move to the sanctuary for Jesus’ first trial. While we are listening to the story and moving locations, we will be singing a variety of music.
On Good Friday (4/3), we will meet at 7pm in the sanctuary, there Jesus will be tried and sentenced to be crucified. We will be singing the classic hymns. At the end of the story, we will move to the tomb between the buildings and conclude the service. A Service of the Empty Tomb (outside) on Easter at 8 am will round out our special services. I believe that if we will walk through and experience the story of Christ’s final days, that the celebration of His Resurrection on Easter will take on a deeper meaning, drawing us closer to God. Come join us!
Blessings in Christ,
Pastor Tom
Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give,
not reluctantly or under compulsion,
for God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7
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