• Sunday, April 13 at 10:00 am – Palm Sunday service

• Wednesday, April 16 at 5:15 pm – Final Lenten Book Study

• Thursday, April 17 at 6:00 pm – Maundy Thursday supper and service with foot washing and communion

• Friday, April 18 from 7:00 am – 7:00 pm – Good Friday prayer vigil (participants pray from home)

• Friday, April 18 at 12:00 pm – The Palestinian Way of the Cross (procession through downtown Fort Wayne)

• Friday, April 18 at 7:00 pm – Good Friday Tenebrae service

• Sunday, April 20 at 7:30 am – Easter Sunrise service

• Sunday, April 20 at 8:30 am – Easter breakfast

• Sunday, April 20 at 10:00 am – Easter Celebration service

In chapel class on Sunday, Rev. Timothy Price will be leading a session on "Bad Boys of the Bible," based on the book of the same name by Barbara Essex. In her book, Essex reveals a side of the Bad Boys of the Bible not usually reflected upon or even considered in most preaching and teaching. Adam, Cain, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, Jephthah, and Samson are well-known men of the Bible who were strong and faithful, yet also weak and challenged. The book won the Pilgrim Press Mayflower Award for Spirituality in 2003.

Chapel class begins at 9:00 am every Sunday and is open to all adults in person or on Zoom. The password for Zoom access is 461025.

Indiana Center for Middle East Peace welcomes Issa Amro, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, in person at Plymouth Church today, Sunday, April 13, at 2:30 pm.

Issa Amro is a Hebron-based Palestinian activist, a leading voice in the non-violent movement resisting Israel's genocidal ethnic cleansing agenda. He is being nominated, together with Israeli activist, ICAHD founder, Dr. Jeff Halper, this year for the Nobel Peace Prize. Founder of Youth Against Settlements and Friends of Hebron, Issa has been harassed, arrested, beaten, and tortured on many occasions. 

In 2010, Issa was declared a "human rights defender of the year in Palestine" by the Office of the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights. Last year, the New York Times called him "one of the followers of Martin Luther King, Jr.," and the New York Times Magazine called him “the Palestinian Gandhi.” Issa was also one of the 2024 recipients of the Right Livelihood Award (the "alternative Nobel Prize") in Stockholm, "for his steadfast nonviolent resistance to Israel’s illegal occupation, promoting Palestinian civic action through peaceful means.”

"I have three choices: to use violence and I will be the hero of Palestine for one month; to accept to live under occupation and accept to be a slave; or to fight the occupation using non-violent resistance. So, you choose: I choose to fight using non-violence."

- Issa Amro

Our Lenten book study concludes this week with Michael J. Sandel’s 2009 New York Times bestseller Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?. For this final session, we will review chapter 10.

This may seem a puzzling choice in that it is not explicitly a religious book but rather a book about ethics and what different people mean by the word “justice.” Is it the greatest good for the greatest number, freedom for individuals to choose whatever they will, being treated fairly and minimizing inequality, the common good, or something else? Folks are encouraged to bring a copy of the book with them.

Are you curiously watching the American Sign Language interpretation during worship? Join Cassidy Cwierthia for this introduction to worship signs. Learn to recognize some common religious signs, and join along in signing the Lord’s Prayer and common songs at 7 pm on Wednesdays beginning April 9 in the Chapel. All ages are welcome!

Plymouth members are once again invited to participate in an all-day prayer vigil from their homes on Good Friday. Sign up for one or more 15-minute slots using the link below, and you will receive further instructions and prayer resources via email. Please consider joining your fellow church members in prayer on this sacred day.

This Good Friday, walk in solidarity with the people of Palestine. We will gather outside the steps of Plymouth Church at noon, then process throughout downtown with various stations along the way for reflection and prayer. Bring a sign or a Palestinian flag. All are welcome.

Do you sing or dance? Do you write poetry, or tell jokes? Do you juggle or have a fun talent to share? Don't delay, sign up today for our upcoming Talent Show! Contact Kara Jaurigue (kkjaurigue@gmail.com) by Friday, April 18 to reserve your spot!

The talent show will begin at 11:30 am following worship on Sunday, April 27. Don't worry if you're hungry right after church, we'll have some snacks to tide you over and enjoy during the show! 

Support solar energy in Allen County! Plan to attend a letter writing event in the Folsom Room on April 29 to learn more about the possibility of bringing grid scale solar development to the area. More details are coming soon, but for now, mark your calendars!