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Dear People of St Andrew’s,
Blessings as we enter Holy Week.
This year has brought many transitions. St Andrew’s is in transition in its pastoral leadership and in how it presents itself in the world. Transition can be the Spirit pushing us out of our comfort zone. We may have become complacent to what God desires for us in the place called St Andrew’s.
Now is a time to reflect on who are we and how do we present God to the world? When we look back 10 years from now, we will be able to see clearly what we are being called to be.
While we don’t have the opportunity to time travel and look back from the future, God is Alpha and Omega, omni-present – past, present and future. Allow God to enter your thoughts and prayers for this place we call home, and in so doing we can align our corporate desires with the One who loves us beyond all understanding.
Come be with us this week in the many expressions of our faith.
Sunday is Palm Sunday and we will gather on the front patio to begin our service with the blessing of palms and our procession around the block.
We will continue on Maundy Thursday, at 6 pm, with a meal on the patio in front of the church, then the experience of being cared for as Christ cared for the disciples and concluding with the stripping of the altar.
This leads us to Good Friday at 6 pm and the passion on the cross. You are invited to bring a rock with you or you can pick one up when you enter the church.
The Great Easter Vigil is Saturday at 6 pm. We will hear the stories of our faith as told around a campfire. Please bring a lawn chair, blanket to sit on. There’s more and after the service, s’mores.
Easter brings the joy of Baptisms on Easter Morning and experiencing God’s sacrificial love for us. After the service will be an Easter Egg hunt on the library’s lawn across the street.
Come for all or part, whatever you feel comfortable with. We are glad you are here!
May the experience of Christ’s love and sacrifice embrace you and bring you peace and courage.
Pastor Cyndi
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