
Beginning with Palm Sunday, Holy week is a special week filled with poignant stories, meaningful worship, remembrance, and the renewed promise of life transformed and resurrected through love.
All are invited to participate in the various celebrations and events that mark this most important week on the Christian calendar.

Palm Sunday, April 13, 10 am
Begin the week with a joyous celebration of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem with children shouting and people waving palm fronds.
This year we will hear a timely and prophetic word from Rev. Marilyn Baugh Kendrix.
Over the last 13 years, Rev. Kendrix has shared an inspiring and challenging word to churches in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Joyfully and urgently, Rev. Kendrix shines a light on the injustices of our day to raise awareness regarding mass incarceration, systemic racism and poverty. Her message will focus on the thread that flows from the history of racism in America to the situation making the USA the nation with the highest rates of poverty among developed nations. An underlying cause of our inability to solve the problem of poverty is the myth that most of our nation’s poor people are Black, allowing us to conclude that their poverty is their fault. As followers of Jesus Christ and inheritors of the words of the Prophets, we must be compelled to work to eliminate poverty in our land.

Maundy Thursday, April 17, 7 pm
We mark the night of Jesus’ betrayal with a service of shadows and light. We remember that before he is arrested in the garden, he gives us a new commandment, “love one another,” and institutes what we now call communion, the Eucharist, or the Lord’s Supper.
In 2025 we will explore the story in accordance with the Gospel of Mark and reflect on the many ways the story calls us to listen deeply to our hurts as well as our hopes, our shadows as well as our light.

Easter Vigil, April 17, 8 pm - April 18, 3 pm
Journey with Jesus from his arrest in the garden to his last breath on the cross. One or two congregants hold vigil for an hour through out this time. Click to sign up or find out more on our Easter Vigil page.

Sunrise Service, April 20, 5:50 am
Gather on the hill behind Woodstock Academy for our annual community sunrise service celebration.

Easter Celebration, April 20, 10 am
Easter is a Living Hope that lives on in us as we joyfully celebrate the Good news of Christ’s resurrection and the promise of life transformed and resurrected in us!
So, if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, … not on things that are on earth. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory. – Colossians 3:1-4