Fw: Weekly e-pistle 03/26/2015

March 26, 2015 This Sunday, March 29th    Palm Sunday / Sunday of the Passion     Egg Hunt for Children 9:00 a.m. Invite your friends! (No Sunday school) Holy Communion: Procession with Palms & Passion Reading- 10 AM The first and second readings and psalm are the same this Sunday every year: Christ emptying himself of divine power and protection, willingly becoming vulnerable to those who struck him and put him to death. With Christ we lament his suffering and all human suffering, but expect God's final vindication. Mark's passion story begins with an unnamed woman anointing his head, perhaps to proclaim him Messiah, and Jesus saying she has anointed him beforehand for burial. Mark's Easter story will begin with women going to anoint Jesus for burial, only to find that he has been raised, God's living Anointed One.    Sunday's readings: Isaiah 50:4-9a, Psalm 31:9-16, Philippians 2:5-11, Mark 14:1-15:47 Other Happenings:    Special Meeting of the Congregation THIS SUNDAY, March 29th, following worship, to elect voting members to synod assembly and consider a second 3-month budget.          All-Congregation Church Clean Up (inside and out) THIS SATURDAY, March 28th, from 9:00 AM to noon. Come make our church shine for Easter! Stay and help hide Easter eggs!     Drop off your Easter lilies on Saturday, April 4th, between 9 AM and noon, or leave them at the parking lot door. See Kathy Campas-Sutin if you have any questions.     There are 4 great ways you can support