HOLY WEEK

According to the ESV Study Bible, the events of Holy Week were:

Sunday: Jesus weeps over Jerusalem
Crowd comes to see Jesus
Triumphal Entry
Curses the Fig Tree

Monday: Jesus cleanses the Temple
Returns to Bethany with the Twelve
Disciples see the withered Tree

Tuesday: Controversies in the Temple area
Olivet Discourse on the way back to Bethany
Continues teaching in the Temple

Wednesday: Continues teaching in the Temple
Sanhedrin plots to kill Jesus

Thursday: Passover / Lord’s Supper
Upper Room Discourse
Prays in the Garden
Betrayal and Arrest
Trial before Annas
Trial before Caiaphas and some of Sanhedrin

Friday: Roman trials before Pilate, Herod, and back to Pilate
Crucifixion
Burial

Sunday: Resurrection
Empty Tomb witnesses
Post-resurrection appearances

As we think of these events, we will take four specific opportunities to celebrate the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord this week:

On Thursday at 7pm, we will meet in the Old Sanctuary of our Church for a Maundy Thursday Service. We will pray, sing, read Scripture, and take the Lord’s Supper together!

On Friday at 7pm, we will meet at the Kaskaskia Country Club near Arcola to be part of a multi-Church Good Friday Service. There will be prayer and singing, Scripture reading, and a message by Pastor Mike Wilder who is planting the new church in Arcola.

On Sunday at 9am, we will gather for Sunday School...

and then at 10am we will then have our annual Easter Service! I hope that you will be in special prayer all this week that the Lord will lead several people who do not normally attend church to this service. Pray that He will speak to them and call them to salvation.

We will not have any services at the church on Sunday evening.