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This Sunday begins the final phase of our Lenten journey. Please join us as we celebrate Jesus' triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem. Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!

Pastor's message will be from Matthew 21:1-11 .

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Remaining services for Holy Week sponsored by the Absecon/Galloway Clergy Fellowship are as follows:

Thursday - 7:00 Maundy Thursday Communion at Absecon Methodist Church; Rev. Cobb preaching

Friday - 12:00 Service at St. Mark and All Saints; Rev. Ed Davis, Deacon Tom Sweeney

Sunday - 7:00 a.m. Easter Sunrise Service at Heritage Park; Rev. Melanie Kalla

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Attention Handbell Choir Members – There will be an 8:30 a.m. rehearsal this Sunday prior to our performance during worship services. Also, due to the Maundy Thursday service at the Methodist Church our last rehearsal has been moved to 6:00 p.m.

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Carol Kleiner is looking for more members for the PB & J Club! If you know how to make PB & J sandwiches (or are easily taught) and are available at 9:00 a.m. the second Thursday of the month see Carol!

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Where Am I? – Read Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29

Last year I visited the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and saw a huge painting, The Entry of Christ into Chicago in 1976 by Roger Brown. The pictured city teems with life, with people working, talking, eating, and dancing. Into the midst of this, Jesus rides on the back of a flatbed truck toward a speaker's platform. Local dignitaries wait there for him. Fewer than one hundred people have gathered. One lone woman stands in the street, waving a single palm branch.

I bought a postcard of this painting and put it on my desk at work, wondering where I would be in this scenario. Would I be a part of the religious and political establishment, preparing to welcome the latest celebrity coming to town? Would I be one of the crowd, curious about Jesus? Would I go on about the routine of my life? Would I even know Jesus was there? And if I did, would I care? Or could I possibly be the one woman faithfully waving the palm branch?

The truth is, I might be anyone in the painting. Each day I can choose to serve God or seek to serve my own self-interest. What about you? How are you attentive to "the one who comes in the name of the Lord"?

Carol Krau (Tennessee) from The Upper Room, April 5, 1998

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This Week in Our Church . . .

Sunday Palm Sunday

8:30 Bell Choir Rehearsal

8:45 Breakfast

9:30 Sunday School & Worship

10:45 Refreshments

11:00 Worship

Monday St. Patrick's Day

1:15 Bible Study

Tuesday

Wednesday

7:00 Christian Reader's Book Club

Thursday Maundy Thursday and First Day of Spring

4:30 Lions & Lambs

6:00 Senior Youth

6:00 Bell Choir Rehearsal (Note time change!)

7:00 Maundy Thursday Communion at Absecon Methodist

Friday Good Friday

11:30 Office Closed thru Monday

12:00 Service at St. Mark and All Saints

Saturday

Lions & Lambs/KFC Bowling

Easter Sunday

7:00 Easter Sunrise Service at Heritage Park

9:30 Sunday School & Worship

10:45 Refreshments

11:00 Worship & KFC
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Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. - I Corinthians 13:7 The Presbyterian Church at Absecon 208 New Jersey Avenue Absecon, New Jersey 08201

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