Grace News April 8, 2025

Announcements

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April 2025 Schedule–please see the corrections for Holy Week

Announcements

Holy Week 2025

April 13 – Palm Sunday

Worship at 8 & 10:30. The 10:30 service will include a parade with our children!

April 17 – Maundy Thursday

Worship at noon in the chapel and 7 p.m. in the nave. Foot-washing, Holy Communion and the

Stripping of the Altar brings us into the midst of Jesus’s last days.

April 18 – Good Friday

7:30 a.m. Stations of the Cross – we walk, pray and sing our way around the Grace Campus marking the traditional 14 “stations” of Jesus’ Passion. A beautiful and solemn way to begin this Holy Day.

7 p.m – The reading of the Passion of St. John and Adoration of the Cross, choral music, and prayer.

April 19 – Easter Vigil

Start in the parsonage yard with a small bonfire and lighting the new paschal (resurrection) Candle…the first proclamation of Easter for the new season, epic readings from the Jewish Scriptures, music, all moving us toward the celebration of Holy Baptism!

April 20-Easter Day
 Worship at 8 & 10:30

At the 10:30 service choirs and brass adorn our celebration of the heart of Christian hope and faith. 

An Easter breakfast will be offered between services in the Nolt Auditorium. We are providing beverages. Please bring fruit, breakfast pastries, or a breakfast casserole to share

Easter Flowers Orders

Easter flower order forms are available in the narthex or you can download the PDF below. Cost is $12 per plant. Orders must be received by Friday April 11, 2025. Please contact Angie to arrange picking up your plant if you will not be picking it up after second service Easter Sunday.

Outreach

Grocery Cards

Grocery cards are available at both services on Sunday mornings. You may order cards by calling Duane and Kitty Weiss. Remember all purchases of cards realizes 5% in cash back to Grace. These funds are used to support our many ministries. Grocery Cards will NOT be available on Easter Sunday.

Christian Formation

Mrs. Hartman’s Sunday School Class has been recording their acts of kindness during Lent.
 

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