As Bluffton Christians enter Holy Week, several special worship services are planned by area congregations.
^aEUR"The Bluffton Area Ministerial Association is again sponsoring the Cross Walk for Good Friday, April 22.
The carrying of the cross to commemorate Jesus' passion will begin at:
o St. Mary's Catholic Church at 11:30 a.m. and proceed to
o First United Methodist Church,
o First Mennonite Church,
o Bluffton Presbyterian Church,
o English Lutheran Church,
o and ends at St. John United Church of Christ.
A community Good Friday service will be held at St. John's at noon. The service will be focused on the seven last words. Anyone is welcome to join at any point along the route.
Other services planned during the week by Bluffton area congregations follow: (The Icon invites area churches to provide Holy Week services to be added to this list)
First Mennonite
* Maundy Thursday Seder Meal in Fellowship Hall, 7 p.m.
* Easter sunrise service, Buckeye Park, 6:30 a.m.
* Brunch potluck, Fellowship Hall, 9:15 a.m., persons attending are invited to bring a breakfast dish
* Easter worship service theme Becoming Fully Human: Shaped and Called by Jesus, 10:30 a.m.
St. Mary's Catholic
* Wednesday, April 20 tenebrae (celebration of Darkness), 6:30 p.m., followed by a 7 p.m. service
English Lutheran
* Maundy Thursday service of communion and ritual stripping of the alter, 7 p.m. Theme: Let My People Go - to the Table!
Easter Sunday theme: "Come and Sell: Go and Tell"
* Easter Sunday sunrise service, more contemporary and less formal, with communion, 7:30 a.m.
* 8:45 a.m. Fellowship breakfast, with Easter egg hunt following
* 10:15 a.m. Festival worship with communion
Bluffton Presbyterian
* Maundy Thursday communion by intinction, 7 p.m.
* Easter Sunday egg hunt, 9:30 a.m.
* Easter Sunday service with adult choir and brass quintet performing
Trinity Lutheran, Jenera
* Maundy Thursday 7 p.m.
* Good Friday tenebrae service, 7 p.m.
* Easter sunrise service, 6:30 a.m.
* A breakfast will be served after the service until 9 a.m.
* Easter worship service, 9:30 a.m.
