Holy Week & Easter

HOLY WEEK

Palm/Passion Sunday Worship Service

  • Sunday, April 13 at 10 a.m.
  • Our six-week-long Lenten “journey to Jerusalem” concludes on Palm/Passion Sunday. Our worship service commemorates the day Jesus arrived in Jerusalem for the annual Jewish Passover celebration after a month-long and sorrowful journey from Galilee.Our service concludes with a litany of confession as we enter the dark events of that first holy week.
  • Children’s Easter Egg Hunt after Worship

Maundy Thursday Worship Service

  • Thursday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m.
  • Holy Communion and Tenebrae

Community Good Friday Worship Service

  • Friday, April 18 at 7 p.m. Hosted by Lakewood United Methodist Church (15700 Detroit Avenue in Lakewood)
  • Dr. Butler and other Lakewood ministers will lead a one-hour service of familiar hymns, readings and brief reflections on Jesus’ last words from the cross.

EASTER SUNDAY

Festival Service of Christ’s Resurrection

  • Sunday, April 20 at 10 a.m.
  • Holy Week concludes and the joyous 60 days of Easter begin as the church remembers those first women followers of Jesus who discovered an empty tomb early on Sunday morning after the Sabbath Day. LPC’s sanctuary will be bathed in Easter lilies and white chancel cloths. There will be another procession to the chancel led by a youth bearing an empty cross as we sing “Jesus Christ is Risen Today” accompanied by organ, tympani and brass. Dr. Butler will challenge us to go into a world of division, economic downturn and political turmoil and become Christ’s living body committed to healing and hope.