Palm Sunday, March 29
Palm Sunday morning opens with our 8:45 Sacred Space service — a quieter, more intimate gathering for those who find meaning in stillness and reflection. Then at 10:00, the sanctuary fills with something altogether different: a full Festival Celebration bringing together our Children’s, Youth, Adult, and Handbell Choirs in a joyful convergence of voices and music. Generations of singers will lift the familiar and beloved “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” — one of those songs that seems to carry memory and hope in the same breath. Whether you come for the quiet or the celebration, Palm Sunday holds something for you.
Maundy Thursday, April 3 | 6:00 p.m.
Join us Maundy Thursday evening at 6:00 for a contemplative communion service unlike the busy rhythm of the day. Cellist Alex Duke and pianist Robert Mills will fill the sanctuary with music that invites you to slow down, breathe, and simply be present. There will be space for quiet reflection, for prayer, for letting the week fall away. It is the kind of evening that helps you arrive — not just at a service, but at something deeper within yourself. Come as you are, and let the music and the stillness prepare your heart for Good Friday, and the hope of Easter just beyond it.
Good Friday, April 4 | 6:00 p.m.
Some services ask you to celebrate. This one asks you to stay.
Join us for a Tenebrae service — an ancient form of worship that moves slowly and intentionally through the final hours of Jesus’ life. Word, image, and song weave together as the Celebration Chorale leads us through Scripture and reflection, and one by one, the candles are extinguished. The sanctuary grows darker. The story grows heavier. And we stay with it — through the arrest, the crucifixion, the death — because this is the part of the story that asks something of us.
There is no tidy resolution on Good Friday. The service ends in silence, and participants are invited to leave in that silence, carrying the weight of the day with them.
Come if you are ready to sit with the hard and holy darkness. Easter is coming — but first, this.
Easter Sunday, April 5 | 8:30 & 10:00 a.m.
Easter Sunday is the morning everything changes — and we intend to celebrate it that way.
Rev. Jannette Miller will preach, and the sanctuary will be filled with the kind of sound that Easter deserves: the ASU Brass joining the Celebration Chorale, piano, and organ in a full, triumphant expression of resurrection joy. From the first notes, you will feel it — something larger than any one voice, any one instrument, any one person. That is the point.
Children will have their own moment of delight, with an Easter Egg Hunt following Children’s Time at both services. From the youngest seekers to the longest-tenured members of this community, there is a place for you in the morning’s celebration.
Come ready to sing. Come ready to laugh. Come ready to hear again the story that refuses to end in darkness. We will ring in the resurrection together — and there is nowhere else quite like this community to do it!
All are welcome. Come as you are, and journey with us through the holiest week of the year.
