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Bring a Friend and Join us this Easter!

STORY TIME & EASTER EGG HUNT
MARCH 27TH at 10:00 AM

Lots of fun for all, including an egg hunt, snacks and you can even take pictures with the Easter Bunny! (Don’t forget your camera!)

Come rain or shine — no RSVP necessary.

William Blake’s Holy Thursday (1794). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

HOLY THURSDAY SERVICE WITH COMMUNION
MARCH 28TH AT 7:30 PM

Theme: Questions of the Passion
The Sanctuary Choir will be presenting special music concerning “Questions of the Passion.” The music will address questions that were asked of and by Jesus on His final night on Earth.

GOOD FRIDAY SERVICE
MARCH 29TH AT 7:30 PM

Theme: The Great Love God Showed Through the Cross
The Sanctuary Choir will be presenting special music as a meditation following in Jesus’ footsteps on his walk to the cross. It will focus on His love for us, as well as our adoration of Him and the sacrifice He made for us. We will have a time of “Adoration at the Cross” where a large cross will be erected for people to come for a time of prayer at the altar.

EASTER SUNDAY SERVICES
– 6:00 am Sunrise Service with breakfast after
– 8:00 am Traditional Service
– 9:30 Contemporary Service with Communion
– 9:30 Traditional Service with Communion
– 11:00 Traditional Service

Bring a flower to place on the Easter Cross in the Sanctuary on Easter Sunday.

Our Easter Offering this year will be split between Western Fairfax Christian Ministries and Pender ReGift Thrift Store.

Holy Week at Pender (pendernews.org)

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Posted by MaryO on March 22, 2013 in Lent, Music, Pender UMC, Posts of Interest, Sermon

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JC Reigns at Arcola UMC Saturday Night, for Benefit Concert

28 Feb

JC Reigns at Arcola UMC Saturday Night, for Benefit Concert

Please join us on Saturday evening, 7:00 @ Arcola United Methodist Church for a benefit concert, supporting Camp Highroad.

The evening will be a mix of Christian Family music and video programs highlighting Camp Highroad and its efforts to offer a Christian camp again this summer to anyone who would like to attend.

Last year we were able to send 54 young people who might never have had that opportunity.

In advance, we appreciate your support for this wonderful cause and hope you will plan to join us in this endeavor. The event will be at Arcola UMC, but for Camp Highroad.

The address for the church is:
24757 Evergreen Mills Road, Dulles, VA.

Event will run from 7:00 until 8:30, “everyone is welcome”.

Camp Highroad Benefit Concert (pendernews.org)
This Week at Pender – February 21, 2013 (pendernews.org)

Camp Highroad Benefit Concert

11 Feb

From JC Reigns (Kevin Havens’ group)

We are so excited to be a part of the Camp Highroad Benefit Concert again this year!

We hope that all of you will make time on March 2nd, to come to Arcola UMC and join us for an evening of worship and praise.

JC Reigns feels blessed to be a part of this wonderful event, which will raise money for children who might not otherwise be able to attend a Christian camp this summer.

Save the date.

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Posted by MaryO on February 11, 2013 in Music

Tags: Arcola UMC, band, Benefit Concert, Camp Highroad, children, Christian camp, JC Reigns, music, praise, Rev. Kevin Havens, RevKev, worship

Pender Concert Series

12 Jan

Beginning in 2013, the Pender United Methodist Church Music Ministry will be presenting a new concert series, in which we will periodically host fun musical events. These events will feature a variety of music genres and types of concerts. They will be presented by members of the Pender congregation as well as those from outside our church. Though the focus of these events will be the music, there will also be opportunities for fellowship, outreach, and mission, so keep an eye out for what’s coming up and ways to serve and participate!
The first planned concert in our series that we have coming up is “Pender People Play Piano” featuring pianists young and not-as-young from within our congregation who will be playing solos, duets, and trios on our fantastic Baldwin piano in the sanctuary.

This will be happening February 1^st at 7:30. Admission is completely free!

Christmas Music, Part 31 ~Auld Lang Syne

31 Dec

“Auld Lang Syne” is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song. It is well known in many countries, especially in the English-speaking world; its traditional use being to celebrate the start of the New Year at the stroke of midnight. By extension, it is also sung at funerals, graduations and as a farewell or ending to other occasions. The international Boy Scout youth movement, in many countries, uses it as a close to jamborees and other functions.

The song’s Scots title may be translated into English literally as “old long since”, or more idiomatically, “long long ago”, “days gone by” or “old times”. Consequently “For auld lang syne”, as it appears in the first line of the chorus, might be loosely translated as “for (the sake of) old times”.

Here is an old kinescope from over 50 years ago!! For 100 years, the slow drop of a lighted glass ball on New Year’s Eve from atop One Times Square in New York City has become an American tradition. A huge crowd gathers every year to welcome in the New Year.

Beginning in 1956, Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians entertained the US on New Year’s Eve with a combination of music and the live “ball drop” at Midnight. Guy continued this tradition until his death in 1977. His band still played on at CBS Television on New Years for an additional 2 years. (Dick Clark’s Rockin New Years Eve began in 1972 on ABC and still broadcasts annually.) This broadcast began right after the 15-minute news and ran for an hour. Guy plays the music and newsman Robert Trout announces the beginning of the New Year.

If you look closely, you’ll see acerbic television personality Henry Morgan in the crowd. TV was very primitive 50 years ago. Harsh lighting, a cheap office clock and a World War II searchlight scans the crowd below. I hope you’ll enjoy ringing in the New Year – 1958! Recorded: December 31, 1957