REGULAR WORSHIP SERVICESSaturday: 5:00 p.m. • Sunday: 8:30 & 10:45 a.m.
Sunday's 8:30 service is always live streamed! |
The order of worship is projected onto screens, and a bulletin is provided for those who like to follow along with the hymnal. ELC has a variety of worship styles. We offer a quiet and reflective Holden Evening Prayer, a more traditional service with organ, put together bands, and even a jazz style service once in a while.
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MIDWEEK LENTEN SERVICES - Wednesdays, February 21-March 20
Join us in person at 12:00pm and 6:15pm for worship. The evening service will be livestreamed. A soup lunch follows the noon service, and dinner is served from 5:00-6:00 in the evenings, before worship.
This year we will use the book, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer to help shape our time together.
In Life Together, Bonhoeffer shares his experience within a Christian community found in an underground seminary during World War II. His writing reads like one of the Apostle Paul's letters and gives practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families and groups. The role of personal prayer, worship together, everyday work, and Christian service is treated in simple words for those who are yearning for the real life of Christian fellowship. If you are interested in reading along with us each week, you are welcome to order a copy on your own from your favorite bookseller.
This year we will use the book, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer to help shape our time together.
In Life Together, Bonhoeffer shares his experience within a Christian community found in an underground seminary during World War II. His writing reads like one of the Apostle Paul's letters and gives practical advice on how life together in Christ can be sustained in families and groups. The role of personal prayer, worship together, everyday work, and Christian service is treated in simple words for those who are yearning for the real life of Christian fellowship. If you are interested in reading along with us each week, you are welcome to order a copy on your own from your favorite bookseller.
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Palm Sunday, Saturday, March 23 at 5:00pm and Sunday, March 24 at 8:30* and 10:45am, is the day we walk along with Jesus as he enters into Jerusalem, with palm branches and coats laid out on the path before him; hosannas filling the air along with the blessing: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.”
“Every Sunday in worship the church celebrates the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit gathers us to receive again the gifts of God that come to us through Christ, the saving Word. On several key days at the center of the church year, however, worship takes a particular shape. These central days have come to be known as the Three Days, recalling Jesus’ own words to his disciples that he would be handed over to death, and that “after three days he will rise again” (Mark 10:34). The Three Days encompass the time from Maundy Thursday evening through the evening of Easter Day. In particular, the services of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Vigil of Easter unfold in a single movement, as the church each year makes the passage with Christ through death into life.” (from Sundays & Seasons)
Maundy Thursday worship is at 7:00pm.* The term “Maundy” comes from the Latin “mandatum;” a verb that means “to order” - command. After Jesus and the disciples finished the Last Supper and walked toward Gethsemane, Jesus taught them a new commandment - “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another” (John 13:34). During worship, we celebrate Holy Communion, strip the altar, and give worshippers the opportunity to participate in footwashing, surrounded by special Taize music.
On Good Friday, we worship at 7:00pm.* As we continue from Maundy Thursday into Good Friday, we embrace a time of reflection and intercession, as well as of the adoration of Christ, the sacrificial Lamb. This tenebrae service is quiet and reflective with the altar left bare.
The Vigil of Easter service is at 5:00pm* on Saturday, March 30, and is in four parts: lighting the Paschal candle, scripture readings, celebrating our baptism, and Holy Communion. What began on Maundy Thursday, continued through Good Friday, is now the Vigil of Easter. We patiently wait, taking our time to re-hear and re-live the whole story of Christ’s salvation–again, from beginning to end, from creation to crucifixion/resurrection and beyond.
On Easter Sunday, March 31 at 8:30* and 10:45am, we rejoice in the resurrection of Jesus! We sing hymns of praise, gather around sacred words, and proclaim God’s faithfulness, power, and love in the feast of Holy Communion. With the women at the tomb, we are astonished, elated, and grateful. We depart with joy to proclaim the good news of God’s endless love. Alleluia! He is Risen!