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 Easter Morning @ Stevi UMC

8:00, New Day service on front steps (College Street entrance)

8:30 - 9:30, Easter breakfast (hosted by the UMM)

9:00, Easter Egg hunt (front lawn)

10:15, Praise singing

10:30, Festival worship service

10:30, Scavenger hunt (outside during worship service)

Collect for Holy Saturday

O God, Creator of heaven and earth:  Grant that, as the crucified body of Your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with Him the coming of the third day, and rise with Him to newness of life; who now lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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The Great Three Days begins

A stark reminder

Lenny Johnson reads the opening scripture

The choir sings to the Lord

The community gathered this evening for a time of reflection, scripture, and singing as Good Friday was observed at Stevi UMC.

The service will be available later this evening on our YouTube channel.

Thanks to: Brenda Bolton (choir), Dean Diers (power point), Lenny Johnson (liturgist), Julie Ludington (piano), Hazel Smith (keyboard), and Lisa Menery (video).

Collect for Good Friday

 Almighty God, we pray You graciously to behold this Your family, for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, and given into the hands of sinners, and to suffer death upon the cross; who now lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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An intimate gathering

We had a meaningful gathering tonight at our Maundy Thursday service.

Thanks to Lenny Johnson, Belinda Alkula, Julie McGarvey, and Nilda Bishop for participating as readers. Thanks also to Hazel Smith and Julie Weindel for leading the music.

Ask The UMC: How do we understand the timing of the Great 3 Days?

If Jesus died on Friday and rose on Sunday, how do we understand three days?

During the Great Three Days, from sunset Holy Thursday to sunset Easter Day, we celebrate the saving events of Jesus Christ’s suffering, death and resurrection.
The vast majority of the world’s Christians, including United Methodists, have used the following means to arrive at the timing of our celebrations during Holy Week:

• Thursday evening: Last Supper and, after sundown, beginning of the first day of the three related days.
• Friday morning: First day continues, and Jesus is executed, removed from the cross and buried.
• Friday sundown: Second day begins.
• Saturday sundown: Third day begins.
• Sunday morning: Third day continues and Jesus is raised from the dead.

This way of reckoning the time of Holy Week has been consistent in Christian practice, East and West, from at least the third century A.D.

- found on Ask the UMC

Collect for Maundy Thursday

 Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before He suffered, 
instituted the Sacrament of His Body and Blood:
Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in
remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy
mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life; and who now lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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