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