Pleasant View and Mount Cory United Methodist churches will hold a special combined service on Sunday, April 23, according to Mark Fuerstenau, pastor.
The 10 a.m. service at Pleasant View UM Church, 300 Township Road 300,
Bluffton, will include a "Blessings of the tractors" in the church parking lot.
Area farmers are invited to drive their tractors to church.
From 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Pleasant View will host a soup luncheon with the proceeds to benefit Cory-Rawson elementary student, Ahlora Riker, who suffers
from a rare form of cancer.
The Pandora United Methodist Church will host a free community meal on Wednesday, April 26, from 5:30 to 7 pm. in the church fellowship hall, 108 E. Washington Street, Pandora.
The meal this month is provided by Pandora-Gilboa Student Council. The menu will be tacos, refried beans, salad, cookies, and beverage.
Bluffton First Mennonite Church, 101 S. Jackson St., invites all to participate in Holy Week services, beginning with a Maundy Thursday service at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 13. The service will include faith stories by the youth who will be baptized on Easter Sunday.
On Good Friday, April 14, the Bluffton community ecumenical Cross Walk begins at 11:30 a.m. at English Lutheran and ends with a worship service at First Mennonite at noon. Various members of the Bluffton Area Ministerial Association will participate and Dr. Lucia Unrau is the organist.
NOTE: Bluffton congregations may send Easter services details to: [email protected]
Trinity Lutheran Church, Jenera, announces its Maundy Thursday and Good Friday services.
The Maundy Thursday service on April 13 begins at 7 p.m. Pastor Al Schmitzer will lead a review of Scripture’s teaching on Holy Communion from Luther’s Small Catechism.
Good Friday’s service on April 14, begins at 7 p.m. Pastor Matt Nowak will lead the service based on Jesus Seven Words from the Cross.
NOTE: Bluffton congregations may send Easter services details to: [email protected]
Easter celebrations at St. John’s United Church of Christ begin with a 9 a.m. breakfast, which is prepared and served by the men of the congregation. There is no adult Sunday school on Easter morning.
At 10:30 a.m. the celebratory Easter worship service takes place and will include the singing of Easter hymns by the congregation and choir.
The Bluffton Area Ministerial Association ecumenical Cross Walk ending in the community observance of Good Friday takes place on April 14.
The Cross Walk begins this year at 11:30 a.m. at English Lutheran Church, and proceeds to St. John’s United Church of Christ, Bluffton Presbyterian Church, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, First United Methodist Church, and ends at First Mennonite Church.
The service of worship following the walk begins at noon at First Mennonite.
