Once a year, on the days between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday, Christians around the world gather to celebrate the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, the central and saving events in the life of our Lord. These days of special observance, when experienced altogether, take us on a powerful journey that leads us always into a deeper awareness and understanding of God's saving love embodied in Jesus Christ. To make this journey and to experience this grace means that we come to church four times - Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday.

I encourage you, therefore, my sisters and brothers in Christ, to set aside these days and to commit to making this pilgrimage with Jesus, beginning with his entrance into Jerusalem and then moving to the Upper Room, to the Garden of Gethsemane, to the cross, to the tomb, and culminating on Easter with the glory of the resurrected Christ.

On Palm Sunday, we wave palm branches and cheer as Jesus rides a donkey into Jerusalem. On Maundy Thursday, we gather in the "Upper Room" to share a homemade meal, to have our feet washed (optional), to share Holy Communion, and then to process to the 'Garden of Gethsemane' to spend a few minutes with Jesus while he waits for his arrest. On Good Friday, we witness Jesus' arrest, trial, and crucifixion. On Easter morning, we come to the tomb in which Jesus buried eager to meet and embrace our risen Lord. Please join us. Everyone is welcome.