This Sunday our Easter worship service will be online at 10am on our website, on Facebook, and through Zoom. Please choose a way that works best for you! There are instructions for Zoom below.

Before the service we encourage you to gather a candle, something to light it with, and pictures of family and friends you are missing. Pastor Rick will lead a special prayer during the service to help us connect with those whom we are separated from.

Zoom Instructions – If you have a computer, a tablet, a mobile phone or even a home phone, then you can join the Easter Service! It will be on ZOOM. 
What does that mean? It means you will be with me on a video-call. If you are using a phone without a camera, I won’t see you but I’ll hear you and everyone else on the video-call will be able to connect with you. Because we want to get as close to being together as possible for this service, I encourage you to TRY Zoom even if it scares you a little!

If you would like to join, please go to the contact-us page by clicking here and we will email you instructions. Just put Easter in the comment section.

Our Good Friday service will happen online this Friday at 7 p.m.

There are SEVERAL ways for you to participate in the service. Please choose the way that works best for you. IF you have a computer, a tablet, a mobile phone or even a home phone, then you can join the LIVE Good Friday Service! It will be on ZOOM. 
What does that mean? It means you will be with me on a video-call. If you are using a phone without a camera, I won’t see you but I’ll hear you and everyone else on the video-call will be able to connect with you. Because we want to get as close to being together as possible for this service, I encourage you to TRY Zoom even if it scares you a little!

The service is 60 minutes. If you do not have access to a phone or computer to call in, the service will be recorded and played on our website and Facebook after it happens.

If you would like to join, please go to the contact-us page by clicking here and we will email you instructions. Just put Good Friday in the comment section.

“You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you’re still one body. It’s exactly the same with Christ. The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don’t, the parts we see and the parts we don’t. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance. You are Christ’s body—that’s who you are! You must never forget this.” 1 Corinthians 12:12, 26-27 from “The Message”

I read this passage today right after reading about the continued spread of COVID-19 and it made me think about us, the human race. Disease is and always has been a great equalizer. It cares nothing about social status, money, race, religion, ethnicity. It ignores walls and barriers. It goes wherever it wants regardless of our own posturing and puffery.

This passage from 1 Corinthians is a reminder that we are all part of one body, Christ’s body, His church. If we turn our backs to one part, a hand or a foot that is injured, the whole body is at risk. Such it is today with this dangerous disease.

When I was in Liberia fighting the Ebola epidemic, we could never ignore a case, not a single case because if we did, then we knew the disease would spread. We could never turn our backs to anyone in need. It was hard work, dangerous work but in the end, we defeated the enemy not through anger, but through love and sacrifice. If your neighbor is sick, find a way to bring them sustanance be it food, a phone call of encouragement, or dropping off a book for them to read. Yes, stay safe and pray but also love.