April 10: Our traditional Holy Thursday meal. Keeping Holy Days at home with family is especially helpful in times like these.
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Holy Week – Wednesday
Tuesday, April 21st, 2020
April 8: Holy Wednesday our church held a drive in service heard via radio in our members vehicles. It was just a short service of readings, prayers, and music for anyone who desired to hear God’s Word in person, actually lay eyes on their pastor and other brothers and sisters but doesn’t want to get out of their car. Our pastors and staff have had to get creative during this time of pandemic. We are thankful to a new member of ours who works for a radio station and set all this up for us (not pictured.)
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End of Lent
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
March 25: A couple more weeks left in Lent. Nothing feels like it should this year. Dreary rainy cold days cooped up indoors so often. News pours in and we can’t even process it all. I try to hold on to our Lenten traditions but they easily take a back seat to other pressing matters. All we can do is wait for whatever comes next.
This year we don’t blindly shuffle through the motion of Lents past. This Lent has brought with it a pressing knowledge of our mortality. A daily confrontation with the fact that sin brought death. All creation groans not with a mere desire for freedom to leave the house or to attend church but with the longing of the ultimate freedom. Easter morning will come, it won’t feel the same this year either but we rest in knowing that the First Easter morning already came and on it all was accomplished. We can celebrate that regardless of how we feel or what traditions we miss out on this year.
