Palm Sunday - April 17
Maundy Thursday - Men’s Breakfast
April 21,
6:00 a.m.
Albright Hall
All Grace UMC men are
invited to
breakfast and enjoy a time of fellowship.
UMW Maundy Thursday Ladies Brunch
April 21,
10:00 a.m.
Otterbein Hall
Music by Diane & Lydia Flynn
Program by Jeanine Allen
Jeanine and her husband, Wayne, founded Freedom Ministries of the Quad Cities in 1995 to help couples and individuals resolve spiritual and emotional issues.
Jeanine was born and raised in Moline, and graduated from Trinity College, Deerfield, IL. Her ministry experience includes Illowa Christian Women, Child Evangelism
Fellowship, Navigator Discipleship, missionary work in the Philippines and short term mission trips to Venezuela, Nigeria and Senegal. She married Wayne in 1973; they have two married daughters and six grandchildren.
Free Will Offering/Babysitting provided Reservations
recommended: call Sally Swanson 944-5462 or Church office: 944-4208
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Lift High The Cross Lift High The Cross is our Lenten theme. You are
encouraged to wear a cross during this season as a reminder of your faith
and a possible faith opening to share the gospel. |
Christ In The Passover
Good Friday,
April 22 - 7:00p.m.
We have decided to try something different this Holy Week. Instead of having a Maundy Thursday Service, we are going to have a Good Friday Service. Lyn Rosen Bond, a missionary for Jews for Jesus, will be here to present a program called Christ in the Passover. Lyn will connect the dots between the Jewish Passover celebration and the Lord’s supper. Lyn will speak about each of the symbolic foods used in the seder meal and how they tell the salvation story for the children of God. The story reenacts their freedom from bondage in Egypt. Following the Christ in the Passover presentation we will then celebrate the Lord’s supper. You will not want to miss this special service and presentation.
Missionary Lyn Bond has been with Jews for Jesus since before there was a Jews for Jesus! She is the older daughter of Moishe and Ceil Rosen. Her parents came to faith just about a year and a half before Lyn started kindergarten.
Lyn asked Jesus to be her Messiah when she was in first grade, and handed out Jews for Jesus style gospel literature with her father as early as the summer of 1969. Lyn and her college sweetheart, Alan Bond, were wed one year after graduation.
The two came on staff with Jews for Jesus in 1975 and, except for an eight-year maternity leave, Lyn has served on staff with the ministry ever since. When their daughter Bethany started kindergarten, Lyn went back to seminary and earned a master's degree in missiology.
Easter Sunday
April 24
8:00 a.m. & 10:30 a.m. Services
9:15 a.m. Sunday School for all ages
Nursery provided all morning
JEWS FOR JESUS
Christ in the Passover shows the link between the ancient Festival of Redemption
and Christ as the Lamb of God—you will never forget it! This sermonic
demonstration is visual, so you will actually see a table set with traditional
Passover items.
The missionary uses Scripture as well as the visual items to walk through a Jewish Passover seder, weaving the story of the Exodus together with the life, death and resurrection of Christ. The words He spoke in the upper room come alive as each Hebraic item is carefully explained. We will finish this powerful presentation by celebrating communion. We pray this presentation of Christ in the Passover will deepen your communion experience.
"Copyright 2011 Jews for Jesus. Used by permission." http://www.jewsforjesus.org.
Easter Offering
This year's Easter Offering will dovetail with the Lenten theme of Forty Days of Love. Rick Warren reminds us that the two greatest commandments are to Love God and Love our neighbor. Our Easter offering will be for Rebuilding Together of Geneseo/ Cambridge. You are not only being asked to give money but to volunteer to participate in the Rebuilding Together national workday which is Saturday, April 30th, the Saturday after Easter!
Volunteers, age 14 and over, are needed to assist in home rehabilitation at six sites in Atkinson, Cambridge and Geneseo. Work planned includes painting, roofing, weatherization, plumbing, bathroom modifications, weather treatment of installed ramps, etc. Come to the Geneseo City Park at 7:00am to register.
Waiver forms are available in the church office or that morning. You will receive a t-shirt and work assignment. Snacks, drinks and lunch will be available at each work site.
What a wonderful opportunity to live out our Easter love by helping people in our own community in Jesus’ name. Make sure to write this date, Saturday, April 30th on your calendar.
"FLOWER GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE & CELEBRATION"
A full listing of those who provide the lilies or tulips, and those whom they honor or remember
will be in the Easter bulletin.