We bring snacks to share and play table top games.

Easter service on March 31 at Grace Presbyterian Church is at 11:00 a.m.  After worship there will be a pot luck lunch and an egg hunt for the children.

Children up through 5th grade are invited to hunt for eggs, and families are invited to stay for a light lunch after the egg hunt.  Please help by donating candy and small prizes (we have plenty of plastic eggs).  There is a donation box in the narthex as well as sign-up sheets for donations for items needed for lunch and for set up, clean up, and other egg hunt duties.  This is also a chance to give to the community as the Grace Childcare children are invited with their families. 

We will also have a small egg hunt after potluck on Easter Sunday, March 31st.  

On Good Friday, March 29, we worship at 7:30 p.m.  This is the service of Tenebrae, a series of Scripture readings and the extinguishing of candles, emblematic of the gathering darkness surrounding the crucifixion, punctuated by three sung solos of Holy Week texts.  This service also contains some ancient liturgy and practices, particularly the “loud knocking,” indicative of resurrection, the first glimmer of hope of Easter.

On Maundy Thursday, March 28, the “sacrificial soup” meal begins at 6:30 p.m.  This meal follows the pattern of the early church’s evening fellowship meals or love feasts, held prior to their formal sharing of Communion.  Worship begins at 7:30 p.m.  This service celebrates the institution of the Lord’s Supper, and so we celebrate this sacrament.  This service also incorporates some of the church’s ancient liturgy associated with Maundy Thursday and Good Friday and concludes with the “stripping of the church,” in which worshipers remove items used in the sanctuary so that the church is bare and without decoration or adornment on Good Friday.

We meet for 30 minutes each Wednesday to sing, read Scripture, and pray for all those on the prayer list by name.  Email Pastor Mike Krech to be given the link to join us.

Palm/Passion Sunday is March 24.  We sing “All Glory, Laud and Honor” to the Jesus who comes to save us from sin, though not in the way we might have imagined. We look forward to the children processing about the sanctuary waving their palm branches during the hymn.  Palm Sunday is also Passion Sunday and the service on this day concludes with reading the Passion Narrative (this year from Mark) with members of the church taking various parts along with several responses by the entire congregation.

“You got palm cross on my game night; you got game night on my palm cross.”  Stop, stop, you’re both right (to mix a couple of lines from some old TV commercials.)  So on Friday, March 22, come at 6:00 p.m. to fashion palm crosses to be worn on Palm Sunday, March 24.  Bring snacks if you like.  Many hands make light work (once you figure it out).  We will also make goodie bags for the Easter Egg hunt, and then shift to monthly game night, held this month on the fourth Friday since the fifth Friday is Good Friday.  So, come to one, come to two or all three, eat, or don’t eat, and we hope a good time will be had by all.

Thursday night book group sessions on March 7, 14, and 21, we read A Place Called Home by David Ambroz.  Becky Stirling will be leading this study.

We meet for 30 minutes each Wednesday to sing, read Scripture, and pray for all those on the prayer list by name.  Email Pastor Mike Krech to be given the link to join us.

Thursday night book group sessions on March 7, 14, and 21, we read A Place Called Home by David Ambroz.  Becky Stirling will be leading this study.

We meet for 30 minutes each Wednesday to sing, read Scripture, and pray for all those on the prayer list by name.  Email Pastor Mike Krech to be given the link to join us.

Thursday night book group sessions on March 7, 14, and 21, we read A Place Called Home by David Ambroz.  Becky Stirling will be leading this study.

We meet for 30 minutes each Wednesday to sing, read Scripture, and pray for all those on the prayer list by name.  Email Pastor Mike Krech to be given the link to join us.

The Thursday night study group on Zoom book for February is How to Know a Person by David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times.

We meet for 30 minutes each Wednesday to sing, read Scripture, and pray for all those on the prayer list by name.  Email Pastor Mike Krech to be given the link to join us.

We bring snacks to share and play table top games.

The Thursday night study group on Zoom book for February is How to Know a Person by David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times.

We meet for 30 minutes each Wednesday to sing, read Scripture, and pray for all those on the prayer list by name.  Email Pastor Mike Krech to be given the link to join us.

The Thursday night study group on Zoom book for February is How to Know a Person by David Brooks, columnist for the New York Times.

The season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, this year on February 14. These forty days invite us to introspection, confession, repentance, and amendment of life. It begins with that solemn word, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return.” Between disease, war, and other tragedies, there is no shortage of reminders that life is uncertain and brief. What do we make of this fact? Getting right with God and with neighbor would be a good response. The Scriptures and prayers and the imposition of ashes and Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper help mark a fitting and meaningful start to our Lenten journey. We hope to live stream the evening service.