SUNDAY 9:45 am Resurrection Hour—led by Pr. Dave
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SUNDAY 11:00 am Worship
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WEDNESDAY 12:00 pm
Congregational Check In and Prayer
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THURSDAY 2:00 pm Children and
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FRIDAY 4:00 pm Youth Ministry
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April 5, 2020
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Holy Week
This Holy Week, we walk together with our eyes
fixed on Jesus. Every day of Holy Week there is
an opportunity for you to walk together as a
congregation and to fix our eyes on Jesus.
Some of us will walk together in the Spirit as we
pray prayers and read the Word on our own.
Others of us will join together to pray and study
at the same time as the services are streamed
on YouTube at www.YouTube.com/LCRsermons.
Holy Week Schedule
April 5 11:00 am Palm / Passion Sunday
April 6 7:00 pm Lectio Divina for Monday in Holy Week
April 7 7:00 pm Lectio Divina for Tuesday in Holy Week
April 8 7:00 pm Lectio Divina for Weds. in Holy Week
April 9 7:00 pm Maundy Thursday
April 10 7:00 pm Good Friday
April 11 7:00 pm Resurrection of Our Lord: Easter Vigil
April 12 11:00 am Resurrection of Our Lord: Easter Sun.
The services will start at the appointed time; however, we will
begin the live stream about ten minutes early to give people time
to gather, find the bulletin, and prepare their hearts and minds for
worship.
Holy Week for Home is a single worship resource for the entire
week which incorporates all of the bulletins and devotional
guides. Get Holy Week for Home on our website
(https://lcrmarietta.org/holy-week-2020/ )
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Online Giving
Over the years I have made my contributions to LCR via a check each week that I put in the offering plate. Although I pay most of my bills on-line, I never made the switch to on-line giving for church.
For years, the simple act of writing out a check each week to church was important to me, and a symbol of my love for God. However, now that we will be worshiping virtually for some time, I just made the switch to on-line
giving. It was really easy, and I believe I am showing my love for God in a different way now. It also makes it safer for the volunteers and staff to process my donation in these days of social distancing! You can switch to on-line giving here. - Dan Lizdas
Youth
Congratulations to all the youth who
participated in the Youth Scavenger Hunt.
We hope you enjoyed your cookies.
Youth Events
Fridays 4pm Youth Check-in
Children
Sunday School materials have been
mailed and received.
Thanks Brewicks for this
action shot and your
faithful work.
Our Thursday Children’s
check-in group got to
make paper palm fronds
for use this Sunday.
Children Events
Thursdays 2pm Children Check-in
Weekday Mornings
8:30am Morning Watch KIDS
Kids Activity Holy Week in a Box
LCR Events
April 26 One Virtual Town Hall
May 3
Virtual Annual Meeting
Details for accessing the
meetings will follow
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Music
This past Sunday’s service featured our very own Helen
Phelps proclaiming the Word of God through scripture
reading and leading our sung proclamation. Listen for more
music during our Holy Week services and the many ways the
Word of God will be proclaimed.
Music Events
Mornings 8am Morning Watch
Mornings 8:30am
Morning Watch KIDS
Holy Week Bulletin Holy Week for the Home
from the website (https://lcrmarietta.org/
holy-week-2020/ )
Outreach
Look! -LCR Members reaching out to those struggling by giving financial donations to MUST & The CAC.
Look! -At Promise Gardeners gathering 22.5 lbs. of beautiful lettuce, kale, collards, Swiss Chard, onions, and carrots this morning. (March 27)
Look! -At our Garden friends loading an additional 99 lbs. of non-perishables for transport to The CAC.
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will
always find people who are helping”.” -Mister Rogers
Look! Our help comes from the Lord!
Many thanks to our Dear Gardeners for their work and generosity. Wherever I look, I see God’s Helpers. - Margaret Perry
Outreach
MUST
donation link
CAC donation link
N 95 Masks
Contact Bob Bear (678.372.1711)
It can be a bit of an art to juggle both the YouTube live stream for the
worship service and the bulletin at the same time. I find it works well to
split my screen, or to access the bulletin on my phone while watching
the service on my laptop or TV.
We’ve received some very faith-filled inquires about the possibility of
receiving Holy Communion during this time. Pastor Dave and I have
wrestled with some of the same longings as you have expressed. At
this time, because we are not able to assemble in-person together as
the church, we are going to have to forgo Holy Communion until that
time when we can again gather in person as God’s people. Until that
day, we still seek to receive Christ who continues to come to us as his
Word is read, preached, and sung. We’ll leave it here for now.
Let us walk together into Holy Week
Though by necessity we are physically apart, we walk together into
Holy Week. With Christians throughout the world who are isolated by
Covid-19 this year, we walk together into Holy Week. We also walk
with the church throughout the ages who have kept their eyes fixed on
Jesus.
We walk with the Church who during the 1918 influenzas pandemic
fixed their eyes on Jesus the Palm Sunday King.
We walk with the Church who during the bombings of racial hate fixed
their eyes on the loving Maundy Thursday command of our Lord to
“love one another.”
We walk with the Church which was driven into hiding during the
communist era who fixed their eyes on Jesus the Good Friday
crucified.
We walk with the Church who lost the farm, yet fixed their eyes on the
Risen One!
Though we are isolated, we are not alone for the One who conquered
the grave will not abandon us. Though the space will be different, the
power of the Gospel of our God will carry us through. And perhaps by
God’s grace, we will be found again by the One who saved the world
through a cross.
Friends, let us walk, with our eyes fixed on Jesus.
In Christ,
Pastor Stephen
Holy Week Sacred Space What will you
include?
Palm Sunday Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Easter
Send your pictures to PastorStephen @LCRmarietta.org