Announcements
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April 2025 Schedule–please see the corrections for Holy Week
Announcements
Holy Week 2025
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.
12:15pm Stations of the Cross at The Lutheran Church of the Good Shephard
7 p.m – The reading of the Passion of St. John and Adoration of the Cross, choral music, and prayer.
April 19 – Easter Vigil— 6pm
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 both services 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. We have a warming oven so please, if possible, bring your casseroles preheated.
Fountain Flowers
Opportunities to share plants and flowers for the fountain are available beginning May 4 and ending June 8.
Families may buy plants and flowers to decorate the Fountain on the Sunday they choose, delivering them to church on Saturday and following Sunday services, take their plants home.
Please contact Angie with questions or to sign up.
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
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