Holy Week 2009
Sunday, April 5 — Passion/Palm Sunday (No Sacrament of Holy Communion on April 5)
10:15 AM — Worship Service & Distribution of Palms
Preacher: John D. Painter Theme: Behind the Scenes: Ordinary Details
Special Music by our Chancel Choir, Junior Choir and Harris Ringers
11:45 AM — Pot-Luck Lunch and Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by Children’s Ministries
Thursday, April 9 — Holy Thursday
6:30 PM — Soup & Seder Supper (Soup & Seder Items and Beverages will be provided.)
7:30 PM — Holy Thursday Service & Sacrament of Holy Communion at Tables
Friday, April 10 — Good Friday
12:00 – 3:00 PM –Ecumenical Good Friday Preaching Service
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Middlesex Ave. & Oak Ave., Metuchen
(Pastor John Painter will offer his Message at 12:20 PM)
7:30 PM — A Cantata: Behold, What Manner of Love by Eugene Butler
featuring the Chancel Choir, soloists, narrator & instrumentalists
Sunday, April 12 – Easter Sunday (No Sunday School Classes on Easter Sunday)
6:00 AM — New Hope Baptist Church Sunrise Service @ Roosevelt Park
(Gathering at the Gazebo by the Lake)
7:30 AM — Easter Breakfast sponsored by Children’s Ministries
($3.00 per person donation requested)
9:00 AM — Easter Children’s Ministries Pageant — Once upon a Caterpillar
10:30 AM — Easter Worship & Sacrament of Holy Communion
Festival Brass and Chancel Choir at 10:30 AM Service
Preacher: John D. Painter (10:30 AM) Theme: A Never-Ending Story
—Please invite your friends, neighbors and family to share in our
Holy Week and Easter Services and activities—
Sunday, April 12, 2009 – Easter Sunday
6:00 AM— New Hope Baptist Church Easter Sunrise Service
(Roosevelt Park at the Gazebo by the Lake)
7:30 AM — Easter Breakfast Sponsored by Children’s Ministries
($3.00 donation requested)
9:00 AM — Easter Children’s Ministries Pageant — Once upon a Caterpillar
10:30 AM — Easter Worship & Sacrament of Holy Communion
Festival Brass and Chancel Choir at 10:30 AM Service
Preacher: John D. Painter (10:30 AM) Theme: A Never-Ending Story
Lectionary Readings: Acts 10:34-43 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Mark 16:1-8 or John 20:1-18
Music — Chancel Choir: Sound the Trumpet by Dale Peterson
11:45 AM — Fellowship Time sponsored by Children’s Ministries
Celebration of Found Coins: Red Bird Mission
Behind the Scenes: Ordinary Details
A Sermon Delivered by The Rev. John D. Painter
at Centenary United Methodist Church
Metuchen, New Jersey
April 5, 2009
(Passion/Palm Sunday)
Text: Mark 11:1-11
When they were approaching Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village ahead of you, and im-mediately as you enter it, you will find tied there a colt that has never been ridden; untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ just say this, ‘The Lord needs it and will send it back here immediately.’” They went away and found a colt tied near a door, outside in the street. As they were untying it, some of the bystanders said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” They told them what Jesus had said; and they allowed them to take it. Then they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks on it; and he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches that they had cut in the fields. Then those who went ahead and those who followed were shouting,