Breakfast at 9:30am

Easter Service with Communion begins at 11:00am

Join us for Easter Services 9 and 11am

I pray you are using this season of Lent as a time of preparation for celebrating Easter.  There are several opportunities for us to worship together during this season…

• Wednesday, March 24 at 6:30 p.m. to fellowship together in a Seder Meal led by our Jewish friend, Gerry Kerbis (reservations are required. Please consider inviting a friend or neighbor).  This is what the United Methodist Book of Worship says about The Seder:

The Seder, or Passover meal,…is the most important of all Jewish household ceremonies.  It is an enduring witness to God’s promise of freedom for the Jewish people.  Jews share this meal of liberation, remembering the Exodus from Egypt and rejoicing that the Lord passed over and spared the children of Israel in Egypt (Exodus 12:27).  The Feast of the Unleavened Bread, which became an alternative name for Passover in the Bible (Luke 22:1), recalls how Israel left Egypt in such haste that the dough for the bread was unleavened (Exodus 13).  The meal celebrated in each Jewish home includes foods that remind the family members of the Exodus and features a recitation of the sacred history of the Jewish people.

United Methodists are encouraged to celebrate the Seder as invited guests in a Jewish home or in consultation with representatives of the Jewish community, thus respecting the integrity of what is a Jewish tradition and continuing the worthy practice of Jews and Christians sharing at table together (pp. 350-351).

• Friday, April 2^nd the Fennville Ministerial Association will provide a Good Friday worship experience, this year to be held at the Ganges United Methodist Church at 7 p.m.  I pray also that you will be in attendance at this service as we hear, see, experience, and remember the suffering of Jesus’ on our behalf.

• Sunday, April 4^th there will be two worship opportunities: Sunrise Service led by the youth at 9:30 a.m. and regular worship with Communion at 11 a.m.  Come and celebrate the Risen Christ!

Blessings ,

Pastor Jean