Lakeside Community Presbyterian Church

I hope that you had a good Easter with family or friends. It was good to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus with many of you here in the LCPC sanctuary.

This Sunday at worship we welcome Pastor Van Elliot back to LCPC. He is about to move out-of-state to Alabama and we thought it would be great to have him preach and to give a great send-off with a potluck after church. So I hope that you can attend to wish Pastor Van goodbye.

Have great rest of the week and I hope to see you on Sunday.

From betrayal, to grief, to excitement. This is the emotional rollercoaster of the final three days of Holy Week.

On Thursday, the church down through the ages has used these next three days for worship to acknowledge these emotions and to prepare for what will transpire on Sunday in celebration of Christ’s resurrection from the dead.

The three days, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, are three days of worship that are intended to be one service stretched over three days. It begins with Maundy Thursday, a service of remembrance when Christ was in the Upper Room with His disciples. The second service is Good Friday, when we remember Christ’s trial and walk to the cross. The third service is the Easter Vigil or Holy Saturday, a service of waiting in hopeful anticipation of Christ’s resurrection on Easter morning.

Now most churches don’t offer all of these services but at LCPC we observe two of the three. We are having a Maundy Thursday service on Thursday evening at 7:00pm where we will remember Christ’s Last Passover Meal and partake in the Lord’s Supper and a Good Friday Service at 7:00pm where we will have a service that includes the “Rites of Nails,” remembering that it was our sins that nailed Christ to the cross. Then on Sunday at 9:45am we will celebrate that Christ is alive and that His teaching about His resurrection were true.

Let me encourage you to invite someone to any one of these services. The best way is to ask someone to come with you, but another way can be through an email. You can copy and forward this email to a friend or family member that you may want to invite.

Finally, I hope that you will take some time to pray for our services. It is through prayer that we will invite God into our worship and into the lives that will be attending.

Have a great rest of the week and I hope to see you at our services.