Lenten Worship Schedule
Join Us for Worship throughout Lent and Holy Week
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Ash Wednesday Walk-Up Ashes
February 14, 7:30-9:30 am and 4:30-6:00 pm.
Sidewalk in front of Norwood Entrance
Our ministry team will offer ashes and prayer in front of the Norwood entrance to any who would like to receive them. Please park and walk up.
Ash Wednesday Worship Service
February 14, 6:30 pm, room 200.
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Pastor Mitzi Johnson, preaching
In this solemn, peaceful service we are invited to observe a holy Lent by self–examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self–denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s Holy Word. To make a right beginning of repentance and as a mark of our mortal nature, we gather for prayer, word, song, and the imposition of ashes.
Sundays in Lent
8:30 am Modern & 11:00 am Traditional Sanctuary Services.
February 18, First Sunday in Lent
Genesis 9:8-17, Mark 1:9-15
Lean more about Mission Madness
February 25, Second Sunday in Lent
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16; Mark 8:31-28
Contact Pastor Mitzi to join or be baptized
March 3, Third Sunday in Lent
Exodus 20:1-17, John 2:13-22
Youth Sunday (11 am), Holy Communion
March 10, Fourth Sunday in Lent
Numbers 21:4-9, John 3:14-21
Daylight Savings Time Begins. Spring forward.
March 17, Fifth Sunday in Lent
Numbers 21:4-9; John 3:14-21
Contact Pastor Mitzi to join or be baptized
March 24, Palm Sunday Cantata, “From Silence to Song” Our cantata choir and orchestra present a cantata of remembrance, reflection and resurrection!
“The Great Three Days.”
From sunset Holy Thursday to sunset Easter Day, we celebrate the saving events of Jesus Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection.
Holy (“Maundy”) Thursday, March 28, 7 pm, Sanctuary.
Jesus issues a new commandment, a mandatum novum): Love one another.”
This service commemorates the Last Supper with preaching, hymns led by our choir, Holy Communion, and prayer stations.
Good Friday, March 29, 7 pm Sanctuary.
In this Service of Tenebrae (“Darkness”), the extinguishing of candles is interspersed with prayer, scripture readings, and hymns (no sermon) as we remember the crucifixion of Christ. The service concludes with a dramatic stripping and shrouding of the Lord’s table and Sanctuary to show the desolation and abandonment of Jesus during his long night in the Garden of Gethsemane and all that followed.
Easter Sunday, March 31: 3 services with Holy Communion
6:30 am Sunrise Service in the amphitheater near the Old Creedmoor road entrance with Holy Communion around the firepit.
8:30 am and 11 am Sanctuary Services