Sunday, May 11, 2008 – Pentecost Sunday / Mother’s Day
Dear Centenary Church Family:
It is rare when the Day of Pentecost and Mother’s Day (Festival of the Christian Home) occur on the same Sunday, but because of the early date of Easter, it is occurring this year. We will share in the celebration of each during our 10:15 AM Worship service this Sunday, May 11. And because it is Pentecost…and red is the liturgical color for the day…we are encouraging everyone to wear red to our Worship celebration this Sunday. We will look forward to welcoming Cathy Jean Savoia, our Children’s Ministries Director, back to Centenary this week as she shares a word with the children. After the Time with the Children, those from Pre-K through 12th Grade will be invited to participate in Sunday School classes.
Read MoreThe Authenticating Second
A Sermon Delivered by The Rev. John D. Painter at Centenary United Methodist Church Metuchen, New Jersey May 4, 2008 (Ascension Sunday)
Texts: Luke 24:44-53; Acts 1:1-11
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you–that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be ful-filled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repen-tance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jeru-salem. You are witnesses of these things. And see, I am sending upon you what my Father prom-ised; so stay here in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.”