Member Church News: Holy Week

Joy Evelyn Abdul-Mohan, of the Presbyterian Church of Trinidad and Tobago, offers a meditation for Good Friday: Cross Bearing in the 21st Century

Presbyterian pastor and lyricist Carolyn Winfrey Gillette has written new lyrics to the tune “The Church’s One Foundation” that speaks to Christians who are about to miss out on their traditional Easter celebration.

The Evangelical Presbyterian Church is uniting in prayer and fasting with the Presbyterian Church in America and the Anglican Church in North America on Good Friday. The historic, ecumenical effort is a response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sweeping North America.

More than 200 Uniting Church in Australia congregations will take the Easter message into Australian homes this weekend, as the Church rises to the challenge of keeping community in the safety of physical isolation. Easter services will also be streamed live from the Uniting Church in Australia Facebook page.

A small congregation in California came together as one community on Palm Sunday in a drive-in service that began and concluded in the church parking lot — after members caravanned through town to mark Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem.

Christians across Britain are invited to go outside and join a countrywide chorus on Easter Sunday by singing two popular and well-known hymns.