Please join us for the Pender UMC Kids’ Easter Event on Monday April 14th at 10 am.
We will be enjoying an Easter story, crafts and egg hunts for kids up to 12 years old.
There is no fee for this event; please RSVP by clicking on the link below to help us prepare for your kids!
Register for the 2014 Kids’ Easter Event here.
Easter Sunday Info:
– Please bring cut flowers from home to decorate the Resurrection Cross in the Sanctuary.
– Help decorate our Easter altar in the Sanctuary by purchasing flowers in honor or memory of a loved one. Pick up an order form located at our Sign Up Center in the Narthex. (Orders must be in by April 6th and flowers may be taken home after the 11:00 am service.)
– Our Easter Offering will be distributed evenly between the Chris Atwood Foundation and 2 Students from Sudan at Africa University.
– There will be no Youth Group or Confirmation Class. Enjoy this special time with your families.
– Families, please consider bringing your family in one car to church to help with parking.
Please join us for the Pender UMC Kids’ Easter Event on Monday April 14th at 10 am.
We will be enjoying an Easter story, crafts and egg hunts for kids up to 12 years old.
There is no fee for this event; please RSVP by clicking on the link below to help us prepare for your kids!
Register for the 2014 Kids’ Easter Event here.
Lent is a time to prepare for Easter. United Methodists begin Lent on Ash Wednesday and continue celebrating Lent until Easter. We view Lent as a way to slow down and focus on God, so many Methodists will give up foods or activities during this time. The purpose of giving something up is to find more time to focus on God.
Sermon Series: Give up Something Bad for Lent
March 9. Give up Something BAD for Lent. Matthew 5:29-30, 16:26
We give up all kinds of things for Lent. Chocolate, soda, but that misses what Lent and the cross are all about. Let’s see what we can really give up.
March 16. Give Up Harsh Condemning judgments for Lent. Matthew 7:1-5
It’s awful easy to be judgmental. We do it without thinking. But Jesus is specific about not judging. so how do we do that? Let’s talk about it Sunday.
March 23. Give up the Enemies Within Luke 11:37-52
Are we really willing to look at what’s inside? Coming clean with ourselves? That’s what the cross asks of us and Lent is calling us to do.
March 30. Give Up Running Away. Luke 9:10-17
When trials and problems come running away just doesn’t solve it. Let’s look at how with Jesus we can overcome our problems and find opportunities.
April 6. Give up a Bad Habit. Luke 19:1-10
Stewardship Habits are just that habits and so they are here to stay. Not so fast. Habits can be changed. Let’s look at the keys to changing a habit in life.
April 13. Palm Sunday: Give up Pettiness. Luke 6:32-36
Life is to short for the pettiness! Yet we want to spend our lives in the little stuff. Jesus wants to reorder our priorities and give us faith and hope. Let’s see how this Sunday!
April 20. Easter: Wrap Your Arms Around Something Good for Easter. John 21:15-19
During Lent we gave up BAD things. Easter brings us to embrace the hope, forgiveness and possibilities God has for us because of a Risen Jesus! Let’s wrap our arms around the living Christ and all He brings.
Here’s what Chuck Knows Church has to say about Lent.
Ever heard, “I’m giving up sweets for Lent”? Why does Lent make people want to give up something? And how do you calculate the 40 days of Lent?
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