Easter Sunday Services
We celebrate the resurrection of our Lord, Jesus Christ. He is risen, indeed!
Easter Sunday: 3 Services with Holy Communion
6:30 am Sunrise Service in the Amphitheater & 8:30 & 11 am Services
Whether you’ve been part of this community for years or are looking for a place to connect for the first time, we hope you’ll join us for this day of joy and celebration.
Easter Egg Hunt
Children, bring your basket and get ready to hunt for eggs on the playground between the two sanctuary services! There will be a hunt for those 5 years old and under, as well as a hunt for those 6 and up. Sponsored by the SUMC Children’s Council. We will meet in the Sanctuary at 9:45 am and then head outside on the playground together. Parents, you will pick up your child from their regular Sunday School class.
Our sermon series, “Tell Me Something Good” includes artwork and an artist’s description for each Sunday and the days of Holy Week. We hope that this artwork will help you to connect more deeply with the scripture throughout the season.
Meet Me in Galilee by Hannah Garrity
Inspired by Matthew 28:1-10
The good news is alive in the world. Do not be afraid. Go back to Galilee. Go back to Galilee where it all started. Go back to Galilee and celebrate like we did at the beginning, when we were not afraid, when these words of liberation had not yet drawn the trappings of imperial execution.
Here in this artwork, the crowd is celebrating. Figures are dancing and dancing and dancing. Doves fly among the dancers, breaking borders, Holy Spirit. This throng is in the vacant space of the empty cross. The cross here is mirroring the traditional, four-petaled, stained-glass window design element, which has long represented the cross in European architecture.
The crowd dancing within the cross celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, fearlessly awaiting his arrival in Galilee. The Roman weapon of oppression, the cross, inflicts but a pause in the steadfast and abiding ministry of revolutionary love offered by Jesus in his public ministry. It is fitting then that we should go back to the place it began, when fear was not such a lethal factor. God has overcome death. Hallelujah!
Around the dancing figures in Galilee, patterns of doves disperse outward. The good news, the euaggelion, is alive in the world. Do you remember? The cross is empty, yet full. Overcome. Go and you will find Jesus, free in the world in the faces of strangers and neighbors. —Hannah Garrity
Study the figures in the crowd. What postures and expressions do you see? What emotions do you feel?