Hosanna - Save Us We Pray

CE Weekly 3/27-4/3

Palm Sunday

Christian Education for All

Tonight

Youth Group

Friday March 27

5:30 - 8:00

at Christ Episcopal Church

Be Part of Our Pilgrimage Towards Easter

Plan to Be Here ** Parade of Palms This Sunday

Calling All Kids to be part of the parade
Pass out Palms
Helping to Tell The Palm Sunday Story

Join Us - Palm Sunday 29th - Breakfast & Parade of Palms

Breakfast at 8:00

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Kids arrive 9:15

to prepare for the Parade

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Parade of Palms 10:00

Sunrise 6 am - Easter Worship 10:00 - Alleluia

Cole's Hill ********************************* Sing Sing Sing

69 Blankets Dedicated and On There Way to Kids

FYI Sewers: New Fabric Store Top Stitch Fabric

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We Thank You for Your

Time - Talent - Dedication

Growing Our Faith

These 40 Days of Lent + Sundays

This space will use Bible stories as interpreted in a new Bible for youth,

The Just Love Story Bible.

Published in 2025 by Beaming Books, Minneapolis, MN.

Part 9 - A Holy Week

Palm Parade: Love and Anger Collide

from Matthew 21:1-11

(The following are words as written in The Just Love Story Bible)

The disciples laid some clothes on the donkey's back for Jesus to ride on into Jerusalem. The gathering crowd threw their coats on the grond as a show of honor, like Jesus was royalty! His donkey was not as impressive as the big horses kings usually rode, but the people treated him like a king anyway. They cut big palm branches off the trees, threw some on the ground, and waved some in the air. They boomed out, "Hosanna to King David's son!" and "Save us, we pray!" Many of the people in the crowd believed Jesus was the Messiah, the one they had been waiting for to save them from oppression. Joyfully, they shouted, "Hosanna! Blessed is the Anointed One who comes in God's name!" They we super excited and so very loud!

Play Video and Sing Along

Shout Hosanna!

Video below tells the story as read in the Matthew 21:1-11

Hope you can join our Palm Parade in church on Sunday. Come to Allerton Hall about 9:15. We will explain what to do for the parade into the service behind the choir. Children, with help from some adults, will pass out palms.

One More Palm Sunday Children's Song:

Prayer: We shout Hosanna to you dear Jesus. Help us to understand that you rode into Jerusalem on a donkey to show you were not a king like some countries have or are in some story books. You came in to show you care about all people not just ones that are high up. We sing to you because you are the son of God. You are God with us. We shout Hosanna! Save us we pray. Amen

For Adults Growing Their Faith

Pilgrimage Faith Formation Offerings

What's New & News from SNEUCC Conference

Friday - March 27th - Book Study with Rev. Bill McCoy - "All the Light We Can Not See" - 10:30 - 12:00 in JRC

Tuesday - March 31 - Rev. Tim's Bible Studies (2 times) 10:30 - 11:45 and 5:30 - 6:45 JRC

Wednesday - April 1 - Coffee and Conversation 2pm JRC

5 Things to Know & Share

For Your Good Friday: The SNEUCC has taped a service to be used by all conference churches who wish. "Seven Last Words of Christ". It includes reflections from seven Conference Ministers from across the UCC, accompanied by musical selections.

The conference asks that we not watch this until noon or later on Good Friday. You can either access it on the SNEUCC Facebook page or click the link below. It will be aired at noon on Good Friday.

SENUCC Seven Last Words of Christ

This Week's Devotional for Lent

Thoughts for Good Friday to Easter

UCC Daily Devotional

February 28, 2026

Light and Liberation

Kenneth L. Samuel

The Lord is my light and my salvation—so why should I be afraid? - Psalm 27:1 (NLT)

Fear is a big word. And quite an intimidating word, to say the least. So intimidating that many of our fears are intensified by our fears of facing fear head on.

Looking soberly at all the gruesome details of some living nightmare, the psalmist arrives upon two solutions found in his faith: light and liberation.

I’m not an avid fan of horror movies, but I’ve never seen a threat posed in any of them that the dynamic duos of light and liberation could not remedy.

We need light to see danger in all its dark, deceptive dimensions. And we need liberative agency, which doesn’t take us out of danger, but delivers us from the desperations and despairs of danger.

In the hearts of believers, it was dim on that dismal day after the horrible execution of their Messiah. Yet, through the ominous shadows of death and grief, burning embers of compassion gave light to the pathway toward Joseph’s tomb. When blessedness is burned to the ground, only love for what has been lost can light the way forward

The emptiness of the tomb signaled a void at the very core of evil itself, a hollowness in the hole of hell. A vivid reminder that for believers, the shadows of death are just that: mere shadows, to be walked through.

The tomb was the worst consequence the forces aligned against Christ could offer. It kept money and material at the top, it kept the marginalized and the disenfranchised at the bottom, and it held salvation hostage by threatening death to anyone who dared to elevate love above law.

The believers found liberation from their worst fears in the light of that empty tomb. And they not only lived through the horror. They found new life in it.

Prayer

Lord, in the real-life horrors we face, thank you for light and liberation. Amen.

Poem for This Week's Blanket Dedication

Holy Saturday 2020

by Christopher Grundy

Remember when you walked outside

and the world was silent

except for the hum of hospitals

because for once,

the whole world was intent upon healing.

Remember this actually happened:

the engines of greed stalled

and for a moment

humans along every river,

people packed into every city,

on every tectonic plate,

paused.

Birds sang,

Breezes swept empty streets.

Smog tinned

and the Himalayas came into view,

while death hung in the air

unspeaking,

and the whole world

waited for life, and grace

to persist.

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Christopher Grundy is professor of worship and preaching, academic dean and associate dean for the chapel at Eden Theological Seminary.

Life Is A Pilgrimage

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"Go in Peace.

Go in Love."

Rev. Tim

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CE Weekly 3/27-4/3

﻿Christian Education for All

Be Part of Our Pilgrimage Towards Easter

Plan to Be Here ** Parade of Palms This Sunday

5 Things to Know & Share

Lord, in the real-life horrors we face, thank you for light and liberation. Amen.

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"Go in Peace.

Go in Love."

Rev. Tim

Christian Education for All