Wednesdays Midweek Lenten Services
12:05 - 12:40 p.m. Worship with special music
12:40 - 1:00 p.m. Light lunch (freewill offering)
First United Methodist Church
"Approaching Easter"
by Jane Williams
What gives meaning to our lives? How can we live a life shared with others? Lent and Easter are traditionally times to reflect upon such fundamental questions as these. In her book, Jane Williams encourages us to make space for reflection, which in turn, draws us closer to God. The author explores the following themes: food, power, love, anger, fear and complicity, compassion and waiting. In each chapter, she blends a personal story, spiritual reflection and quotations from scripture or other sources to offer an imaginative and powerful way into the meaning of this holy season. Jane Williams, the wife of Archbishop Rowan Williams, is a trained theologian. She has taught Doctrine and History at Trinity Theological College, Bristol.
Feb. 13 - Pastor Herb Shafer "Food for Body & Spirit"
Special Music: IWC students
20 - Pastor Pat Youngquist "Power: Its Use or Abuse
Special Music: Steve Rod
27 - Pastor Bob David "Love"
Special Music: Jason Edwards
March 5 - Pastor Herb Shafer "Anger or Indifference"
Special Music: MPC High School (Jeff Beaber)
12 - Pastor Pat Youngquist "Fear and Complicity"
Special Music: Marj Thimmesch
19 - Pastor Bob David "Compassion and Love"
Special Music: Pat Youngquist & Cleo McKim
You are graciously invited to deepen your Lenten spiritual walk, to approach Easter in a new way,
by joining us for these mid-week services.
Holy Week Schedule
Palm Sunday Service (March 16)
First Presbyterian Church
We will have palm branches available for our children to wave during the processional parade at the beginning of our service. Please have your child or children meet in the lounge by 9:40 a.m.
We will be receiving the children's fish banks and the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering during our worship service.
9:45 a.m. Cantata: "And the Son Arose"
by Mark Brymer & Cindy Berry
Burt Mahle to Be Honored and Remembered
Burt Mahle, choral director of Iowa Wesleyan College choirs from 1960 to 1990, will be honored and remembered as part of our Palm Sunday Worship Service. Our Westminster Choir, which Burt also conducted for most of his years at Iowa Wesleyan, will dedicate this cantata performance to honor Burt's life of service and friendship to our church, college and community. His wife, Marilyn, will be in attendance, as well as his daughter, Janet, and her family, and his son, Scott, and his family. The service will close with the singing of a favorite anthem of all of Burt's choirs: God Be In My Head. Former members of his choirs will be invited to join in the singing. A reception for the Mahles will follow in our fellowship hall.
We are inviting friends of the Mahles to join them for a meal and social gathering on Saturday evening, March 15 at 7:00 p.m. at Jerry's Restaurant. Please make reservations for the meal by calling our church office (986-5851) or by signing the reservation list in the church narthex.
Burt continued conducting church choirs after his retirement from Iowa Wesleyan until a year before his death December 21, 2007 in Plainview, Minnesota.
Maundy Thursday Service
Thursday, March 20 7:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
Co-sponsored with the
First United Methodist Church
Pastor Herb Shafer - speaker
Way of the Cross Walk
Good Friday, March 21
Begins at 12 noon
at St. Michael's Episcopal Church
Ends at 1:00 p.m.
at the First United Methodist Church
Sponsored by the Henry Co. Ministerial Association
Easter Sunday, March 23
If you would like to share an Easter lily
or spring bulb flowers in memory or in
honor of loved ones, please call the
church office by March 19. You may
bring the flowers anytime during
Holy Week.
7:04 a.m. Easter Sunrise Service - sanctuary
7:45-9:15 a.m. Easter Breakfast
Breakfast Casserole Mini-muffins
Fruit Coffee Juice
Freewill offering
Please sign up to make breakfast casseroles
or mini-muffins.
8:30 a.m. Westminster Choir Practice
9:45 a.m. Easter Worship Service
There will be no church school.
