Salem UMC - Easter Newsletter

What a joyful celebration we had today for Palm Sunday. Our children blessed us with their memorized Bible verse, both Psalm 151 and the adult choir were magnificent, Pat and Amy blessed up with their gifts of music, and Greta's children's sermon was enjoyable for young and old alike!

As we begin Holy Week, please keep in mind these dates and times :

Monday 7:00 pm Washburn Community Outreach Center

Board Meeting at the Center

Tuesday 6:30 pm ZUMBA (see PS below)

7:30 pm Psalm 151 practice (see PS below)

Wednesday 5:00 pm meal

6:30 pm Children's Program "The Easter Tree" in the Sanctuary

7:30 Choir Practice

Thursday 6:00 pm Maundy Thursday Service / Sunshine UMC

Friday 6:00 pm Good Friday/Tennebrae Service / Salem UMC


Sunday (Easter)

7:00 am Sunrise Service

7:45 am Breakfast in the Fellowship Hall

11:00 am Worship with Easter Cantata

We had a wonderful evening of Youth and Confirmation tonight. Thank you to Beth and Jason who helped with Confirmation, to the youth who are continuing to work and plan for their mission trip, and to the Confirmands for putting together Easter Baskets for our homebound members.

My office hours for this week will be :

Monday 10:00am - 1:00pm

Tuesday 3:00 - 5:30 pm

Wednesday 2:30 - 5:00 pm
Thursday 2:00 - 5:00 pm

I pray that you will all have a very holy "Holy Week" as you contemplate the God we serv, the God who loved us so much that He was willing to become one of us and walk through all of life with us.

Love in Christ,

Pastor Laurie

PS Please not that there will be no ZUMBA this week, neither on Tuesday or Thursday nights, because of Holy Week. In addition, Psalm 151 Praise Band will not be practicing on Tuesday evening.

Activities will resume as normal next week