We started Holy Week with a wonderfully inspiring Palm Sunday. It started with the children entering the worship service waving palm branches! Thank you Christian Teague for supplying the palm branches! The worship was God honoring, Christ centered and Spirit filled! I so love our church family and leaders! Thank you for all you do to serve Him and His family.
GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE
This Friday we have planned a beautifully contemplative and reflective service. This year’s service will be built around the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. We will read parts of the passion story and sing songs that will deepen our love of God and our faith in His goodness. We will also observe Communion together. Join us as we remember the Friday events of Passion Week!
SUNDAY’S COMING
This coming Sunday is Resurrection Sunday. He is risen…He is risen indeed! Part of this year’s Resurrection Sunday worship will include baptism. What a way to celebrate Easter. Baptism is a picture of the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is a message inside the message. If you would like to be baptized this Easter Sunday please contact the church office at 843-762-0244 to let us know. We would love to have you participate.
FLOWERING OF THE CROSS
For those who are new to our church family, we will be having the annual “flowering of the cross”. Everyone is invited to bring flowers from your yard (or neighbors if you ask first!) and have them placed on the cross. We will have volunteers to place them on the cross for you. All you need to do is bring them. There is one little issue….we will not be able to have the cross decorated for the 9:00 service. We are asking everyone who would like to bring flowers to bring them starting at 10:00. The cross will be fully decorated by 11:00. We could not think of a way to have it fully decorated for both the 9:00 and the 11:00 worship services. Covid strikes again!
POSSIBILITY OF AN OVERFLOW CROWD
Since the pandemic began, we have tried to provide social distancing between rows of chairs in the Worship Center. While we will put out additional chairs for Easter, it may still be less than we need. So, we are going to provide for an overflow section in the Fellowship Hall. The service will be streamed live into the Fellowship Hall. We are asking that our leaders and our JIBC church family be among the first to give up their seats if that is needed. This might be a Sunday for you to attend the 9:00 service. It has been slightly less attended than the 11:00. Whoohoo….I love having these kinds of problems!
He is risen…He is risen indeed!
Pastor Tom
