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Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper
February 5 5 - 7pm
Join us for food and fellowship in Palmer Hall. Tickets are $5.00 for adults/$3.00 for children or $15.00/family. They are available in the church office and at the door. |
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Ash Wednesday Service
February 6 at 7pm
Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent - a period of prayer, reflection, and introspection as make the journey towards Easter. The service includes music by our Chancel Choir, scripture readings, prayer and the imposition of ashes. We invite you to attend this service of worship in our sanctuary. |
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First Sunday in Lent
February 10
Worship with us at 8:15am, 9:30am, or 11am. Experience dynamic worship
with inspiring preaching and music! Rev. Kathleen Baskin-Ball will preach at all services. Cantate, Suncreek’s Youth Choir, will sing the traditional spiritual Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel at 8:15 am. The Worship Team will provide contemporary music at 9:30 am and Suncreek’s Chancel Choir sings at 11:00 am. |
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Second Sunday in Lent
February 17
Worship with us at 8:15am, 9:30am, or 11am. Rev. Dr. James Moore will preach a sermon entitled: Do You Know the God Whose Shoes Don’t Match? He will speak again on Sunday and Monday nights at 6:45pm as part of Suncreek's 2008 Palmer Studies in the Faith. Click here for more information. |
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Third Sunday in Lent
February 24
Rev. Kathleen Baskin-Ball preaches at 8:15am, 9:30am, and 11am. Exodus 17:1-17 is the scripture reading for this week’s focus on spiritual disciplines. The Chancel Choir will sing Teach Me Your Way at 8:15 am. At 9:30 am Grace Notes Handbell Choir,
the African Drum Ensemble, Angel Choir and Worship Team will provide
musical selections. Grace Notes Handbell Choir, the African Drum Ensemble and Combined Cantate will provide music at 11:00 am.
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Fourth Sunday in Lent
March 2
Worship with us at 8:15am, 9:30am, or 11am. Communion will be served. The scripture reading for this day is John 9:35-41 and Rev. Kathleen Baskin-Ball continues her sermon series on spiritual disciplines.
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Fifth Sunday in Lent
March 9
Worship with us at 8:15am, 9:30am, or 11am. Rev. Kathleen Baskin-Ball will be preaching. The scripture reading for this Sunday is Ezekiel 37:1-14. |
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Family Picnic, Groundbreaking,
& Easter Egg Hunt
Sunday, March 9, Noon
Join us for a big celebration and bring a shovel as we all join together to break ground for our next building. The afternoon continues with a Family Picnic and Easter Egg Hunt. Click here for more information.
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Palm / Passion Sunday
March 16
Palm Sunday is the last Sunday in Lent and the beginning of Holy Week. It marks Jesus’ ride into Jerusalem just days before his crucifixion.
Persons waved palm branches and cried out Hosanna which means Save Us. Worship with us at 8:15am, 9:30am, or 11am.
Children in kindergarten through 5th grade will be entering the sanctuary waiving palms at the beginning of the 9:30am and 11am services in celebration of Palm Sunday. We would like for them to meet in B108 (just to the right of the Sanctuary) a few minutes before the service. We will walk them in and take them back to their classrooms. Fifth graders at 9:30am and 4th and 5th graders at 11am will stay in the Sanctuary with their teachers during the service.
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Maundy Thursday Service
March 20 at 7pm
This is a service of Holy Communion, in which we recall the night of Jesus’
Last Supper with his disciples. The service begins at 7pm in the sanctuary.
Rev. Holly Gotelli is preaching. Childcare will be provided. |
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Good Friday Service
March 21 at 7pm
Join for this Service of Tenebrae led by our Chancel Choir, accompanied by a chamber orchestra. The word Tenebrae means darkness and commemorates the final hours of our Lord’s life on earth through the reading of Scripture and in music. The service begins with full illumination; candles and lights are extinguished during the course of the service which then ends in complete darkness. Childcare will be provided.
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All are invited to bring flowers to adorn a cross on Easter
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Easter Sunrise Service
March 23 6:30am
We offer a Sunrise Service on Easter Morning at 6:30am in the sanctuary. Rev. Kathleen-Baskin-Ball will be preaching and our youth will lead the other elements of the service. |
Easter Sunday
March 23 8:15am, 9:30am, or 11am
The sounds of organ, brass, and handbells along with the voices of children, youth, and adults will ring out in celebration on Easter Sunday. Music will be led by Cantate, Chancel Choir, Worship Team, Grace Notes (adult handbells), Solid Rock Choir and JAM Choir. Worship with us at 8:15am, 9:30am, or 11am on this amazing day as we rejoice that Christ has risen. There is no Sunday School. Childcare will be provided.
Easter Offering
This year’s special Easter offering will go to support the building of homes in Juarez, Mexico by our Adult, Family, and College Students Teams. Suncreek UMC offers Mission Trips to Juarez each year to build homes
for families currently living in homes constructed from cardboard boxes and wood pallets.
Help us transform lives as we celebrate the risen Christ.
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Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross are a series of sixteen crosses, each corresponding to a particular incident in Christ’s journey to the cross and his resurrection. They are usually ranged at intervals around the walls of a church, and are meant to help us make a spiritual pilgrimage through the incidents leading up to the crucifixion and resurrection. Pilgrims pass from Station to Station, saying certain prayers and meditating along the way.
As part of our observation of the season of Lent, Suncreek UMC will erect Stations of the Cross on our church property. A map of the prayer path and Stations, together with a prayer and meditation guide for both adults and children, will be available in the church office beginning Sunday, February 10. The Stations will be open for prayer from dawn until dusk each day, February 10 – March 22. Group tours are available by appointment only. To reserve time for a group tour, contact Rev. Holly Gotelli through the church office.
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