Good Friday
Good Friday – The Unknown Join us at 10am on April 18
Easter
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Simply Good News: Holy Week Gatherings
For the month of April we will be spending time reflecting on the Good News of Jesus! We will kick off our new series called “Simply Good News” beginning with the Holy Week (Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday), and will carry on our series reflecting on how we are invited to hear, respond,
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Easter Weekend Plans (UPDATED April 14)
This post was updated April 14: We’re excited to be heading into the Easter weekend! Because of the weather we have decided to transfer our Good Friday Service to online only. Our Resurrection Sunday Gathering on April 17 will be in-person and online. Good Friday Our Good Friday service will be at 10am – streamed live
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Good Friday: Look Upon the One who was Pierced
Join us Friday April 2 at 7pm for our Good Friday Service. We will commemorate, celebrate and contemplate the central event in human history – the glorification of God – the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Come, let us “gaze upon the one they have pierced”. Online and in-person.
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Good Friday Stations – Fasting & Prayer – Resurrection Sunday
The events celebrated during Holy Week are epic. Jesus’ passion, crucifixion, burial and resurrection are not only central to the Christian calendar, they are the central events of all of history. However, most of us skip over the discomfort and pain of Good Friday preferring to jump straight to Easter Sunday – joyfully imbibing all
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The Holy Spirit and the Road to Pentecost (Spring Series)
Jesus’ resurrection was and is just the beginning. After Easter comes Pentecost, but those forty days is a journey. For Jesus’ disciples the time between the upper rooms was confusing, exhilarating, surprising and empowering. You remember both upper rooms, right? In one they gathered to hear Jesus talk about his betrayal and death. In the
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Easter at the Vineyard
The events celebrated during Holy Week are epic. Jesus’ passion, crucifixion, burial and resurrection are not only central to the Christian calendar, they are the central events of all of history. In terms of importance Easter ranks higher than Christmas – a fact that is lost on most of our children and many of us adults
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Invitations to Lent
Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the faith were prepared for Holy
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Into the Shadows & Darkness to Light: Easter Experiences
Easter is the number one celebration for followers of Jesus. In terms of importance it ranks higher than Christmas – a fact that is lost on most of our children, and, let’s face it, many of us adults too. We just like the cradle more than the cross. In a similar way, we typically skip over
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Good Friday Walk of the Cross
Join us on Mar 25 at 3:30pm for our annual journey into the neighbourhood and into the sufferings endured on the cross. We’ll share some stories from our neighbourhood and tie them into Christ’s journey to the cross. 3:30pm – 5pm. Meet at the church – dress for walking outside. Rain, shine or snow!
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Splinters of the Cross – a Good Friday reflection
When the death of Jesus began to seem just over the horizon of time, followers of Christ began to want to touch something that would seem like a physical bridge between them and that moment. Relics begin to surface. People wanted to hold the cup that Christ held at the Last Supper. They wanted to