Churches

Cheney United Church of Christ

You are cordially invited to attend Cheney UCC for Sunday services March 20 at 10 a.m. Pastor David Krueger-Duncan will lead us in Palm Sunday worship.  Special music will be provided by soprano Keio Cunningham. Coffee hour will follow in the church fellowship hall. Please join us and get acquainted.

Easter Sunrise service will be at 8 a.m. on March 27 followed by Easter breakfast at 8:30 a.m. in the church fellowship hall.  At 10 a.m. Easter Sunday service will be held in the sanctuary.  Men’s breakfast group normally meets the fourth Sunday morning.  Instead, they will join in the Sunrise Service and the Easter breakfast.

Contact the church office at 235-4193 with questions.  Normal office hours are Tuesday 4 – 7 p.m. and 8 – 9 p.m., Wednesday 8 – 10 a.m., and Friday 8 – 10 a.m.

Emmanuel Lutheran Church

Sunday, March 20, Palm Sunday, is all about making an entrance. We wave palm branches and sing “Hosanna.” But this Sunday is not just about entrances; today is also the Sunday of the Passion, when we tell the story of what happens after Jesus gets to Jerusalem.

Jesus was arrested, tortured, crucified and buried in Jerusalem. For this reason the focus of today’s readings in not on entrance but of emptying. Jesus “emptied himself…and became obedient to the point of death-even death on a cross” (Philippians 2:7-8). We do not just enter Holy Week on this Sunday, we are drawn into it. Please join us.

Holy Week services begin on March 24 with Maundy Thursday worship at St Paul’s Episcopal Church at 7 p.m. Good Friday, March 25, worship will be at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 27, Easter breakfast will be served from 9 – 10 a.m., a goodwill offering will be collected. Easter Festival service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Join us as we celebrate the Risen Lord!

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

A welcoming haven, nourishing all God’s people in body, mind and spirit. Sunday Holy Communion at 11 a.m. The Rev. Christine Soule will preach and preside. Lenten reflection and discussion follows coffee hour each Sunday all through the season of Lent.

Attention all college students. The Episcopal, Lutheran and Methodist Campus Ministry meets each Monday evening at 5 p.m. for dinner, study and worship. Please join us. For more information contact Soule at 844-2553.

Choir practice each Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. Come sing with us. Alcoholics Anonymous meets every Saturday morning at ll:30 a.m. in the parish hall.

For your contemplation: “Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too,” Frederick Buechner.

United Methodist Church

Celebrate Palm Sunday this week at the United Methodist Church. Pastor Alissa Bertsch Johnson and associate pastor Pat Sleeth will lead the service and continue a Lenten sermon series based on the book, “Gifts of the Dark Wood.” This week’s topic is the gift of disappearing. Worship is at 10 a.m. with Sunday school classes at 9 a.m. Sunday evening there will be a Lenten prayer service at 6:30 p.m.

Join us Wednesday evenings for soup at 6 p.m. Followed by a Lenten study also based on the book, “Gifts of the Dark Wood.” Childcare is available.

For additional information on study groups and other church programs please call the office at 235-4600.