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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – The most solemn week of the Christian year, Holy Week, is the week leading up to Easter, and is the week during which Christians particularly remember the last week of Jesus’ life.
Holy week begins with Palm Sunday, March 29, and commemorates Christ’s triumphant arrival in Jerusalem to the cheers of the crowd.
Later that week many of the people in that cheering crowd would be among those shouting that Jesus should be executed.
You are welcome to join Pastor Wanda Celli and the congregation of Upper Lake Community United Methodist as they travel through this time in Jesus’ life.
The worship service begins at 11 a.m. Sunday at 604 Clover Valley Road, on the corner of First Street and Clover Valley Road.
Continuing on the Holy Week journey brings they to Maundy Thursday, April 2, also known as Holy Thursday, and the 6 p.m. service which is the time that they remember as the day of the Last Supper. The night of Maundy Thursday is the night on which Jesus was betrayed by Judas.
The most important events in Christianity are on Good Friday, April 3, a day of mourning, when Christians meditate on Jesus’ suffering and death on the cross and what this means for our faith.
Christians believe Jesus to be the Son of God, whose life and teachings are the foundation of Christianity. Good Friday is the Friday before Easter. The 6 p.m. service will commemorate the execution of Jesus by crucifixion.
There will be two services on Easter Sunday, April 5, both officiated by Pastor Wanda Celli.
The sunrise service will be held in the sanctuary at 6:45 a.m. followed by a light breakfast and the regular Easter service will commence at 11 a.m. and will include the flowering of the cross.
During the second service their awesome choir under the direction of Nick Reid and accompanied by pianist Michelle Wells Trigger will perform their rendition of the music “Holy City” and other hymns.
You are invited to attend their adult Bible study class held every Tuesday at 10 a.m. or join the Take Off Pounds Sensibly (T.O.P.S.) group when they meet Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m.
The Methodist church motto is “Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors.” All are welcome.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Lakeport Community Seventh-day Adventist Church is proud be hosting the Folk Mountain Gospel group at 7 p.m. Friday, March 6.
The church is located at the corner of Park and Hill right off Highway 29.
The group's unique style of music blends biblical and traditional instruments such as hammered dulcimer, bowed psaltery, zither, mountain dulcimer, mandolin and guitar with their voices to provide a “down-home” family-oriented message of Jesus’ love and grace.
Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy some fold mountain music and heart-warming stories designed to encourage and inspire.
A free-will offering will be received.
For further information please call the church at 707-263-6002.
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UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Begin your journey to the Easter Resurrection with the Upper Lake Community United Methodist Church as they observe Ash Wednesday at the Feb. 18 service, which will include the Disposition of Ashes.
The service begins at 6 p.m. at the church, located on the corner of First Street and Clover Valley Road in the town of Upper Lake.
Ash Wednesday begins the season of Lent, when many Christians prepare for Easter by observing a period of fasting, repentance and spiritual discipline.
Even our singing changes: where Advent in December brings carols, Lent brings songs with a particular emphasis on repentance.
During the Ash Wednesday service Pastor Wanda Celli will lightly rub the sign of the cross with ashes onto the foreheads of worshipers.
The use of ashes as a sign of mortality and repentance has a long history in Christian worship.
It is tradition to save the palm branches from the previous Palm Sunday service to burn to produce ashes for this service.
The ash cross on the forehead is an outward sign of our sorrow and repentance for sins.
The church's annual prayer vigil will run from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., at which time they will gather for the Ash Wednesday service.
After Ash Wednesday you are welcome to join church members on their Lenten journey through Holy Week and Easter Sunday.
A future article will discuss the many services planned for Holy Week at the United Methodist Church in Upper Lake.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The public is invited to the Ash Wednesday service of prayers and dispensation of ashes on Feb. 18 at noon at St. John's Episcopal Church, 1190 N. Forbes St., Lakeport.
Chaplain Ron Martin will be presiding.
Ash Wednesday marks the first day of the Christian season of Lent.
The ashes used are made from the burning of palm leaves from the previous year's Palm Sunday service.
Ashes are placed on the forehead of participants in the sign of the cross as the words, “Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return” are said, a reminder of our mortality – that they are on Earth for a short time.
Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent, which is a time for reflection and repentance in preparation for the celebration of Easter.
According to Deborah Smith, St. John's senior warden, “Repentance does not mean groveling; it means assessing your relationships with others and with God and finding renewal in the grace of Divine Love.”