This Week at Tabernacle
THIS WEEK AT TABERNACLE CHURCH, UCC
April 20th, 2025
Tomorrow night, April 17th, at 7:00 p.m.
Join us for our Maundy Thursday Service in the Bigelow Room.
Please use the Federal Street Entrance.
This service will not be available via zoom.
Join us Sunday, April 20th, Easter Sunday at 10:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary for our traditional Easter Sunday Service and the Flowering of the Cross.
Our Easter Sunday Choir under the direction of James Giessler will be performing, along with guest musicians.
If possible, remember to wear your name badge.
This service is available via zoom.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR….
Next Weekend…..
HELP SPRUCE UP OUR YARD
Join Annette Carter and Betsey Bennett on Saturday morning,
April 26th
9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Water and snacks provided.
If you have yard tools bring them; even if you don’t, come; many hands make light work.
Can’t come to help?
Donations of yard waste bags and loan of tools will help.
Join Us for a
Folk Music Sing-a-long
Songs of the 60’s and Beyond
Featuring
Daisey Nell and Captain Stan
Bob and Jenn Strom
Steve Levy
Saturday, April 26th, 2025
7:000 p.m.
In the Bigelow Room
Use Federal Street Entrance
*** 10.00 Donation **
A percentage of donation will go to our Missions Group
Memorial Service for Reverend Elizabeth King
On Sunday, April 27th at 3:00 p.m. we are holding a Memorial Service for revered Elizabeth King. The service will also be available via Zoom. The zoom link will be provided in next week This Week.
We are anticipating a large number of people attending the Memorial Service for Reverend King and will be hosting a reception consisting of light refreshments following the service. Please look for an email with a link to Sign Up Genius to volunteer to bring item on the list.
MISSIONS IS COLLECTING BOOKS
FOR THE SALEM PANTRY
Starting in April and through June, Missions will be collecting books for all ages in English and Spanish.
The books will be distributed at The Market at
47 Leavitt Street, Salem.
Please consider donating gently used books or new ones to support the joy of reading one’s own books.
Follow the Amazon link below to order books in Spanish.
Thank you in advance for your contributions.
Missions Action Group
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/8Z9UN68AM89K?ref_=wl_share
The Deacon for the month of April is Victoria Levasseur.
CALENDAR
Today, Sunday, April 20th, 2025Easter Sunday
10:00 a.m. Worship Service in the Sanctuary and via Zoom
Monday, April 21st, 2025
7:00 p.m. Alanon Meeting downstairs in the dining room.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
7:00 p.m. Bible Study via Zoom
Friday, April 25th, 2025
6:30 p.m. AA Meeting downstairs in the dining room
Saturday, April 26th, 2025
9:00 a.m. to Noon Tabernacle yard Clean-Up
7:00 p.m. Folk Music sing- a -long in the Bigelow Room
Sunday, April 27th, 2025
10:00 a.m. Worship Service the Sanctuary and via Zoom
11:00 a.m. Fellowship time in the Bigelow Room
3:00 p.m. Memorial Service for Reverend Elizabeth King
Steeple Lighting opportunities are available for 2025.
Call or email the office for months that are available if you would like to celebrate a special occasion or remember or honor a loved one. Cost is 150.00 for the month. Call or email the office to see what months are still available. Phone: 978-744-3164, email: office@tabernaclechurch.org
WE Are Collecting…..
Missions is collecting plastic tabs from bread and fruit bags, and the pull tabs from cans. Collection Jars are in the Bigelow Room.
WE NEED HELP SERVING LIFEBRIDGE MEALS
CHOOSE YOUR MONTH TO SERVE
4-6- P.M. the fourth Monday of the Month
Sign up Sheets are on the board in the Bigelow Room
or
CONTACT MARTHA BAGBY (mhbagby@gmail.com)
WITH OUT VOLUNTEERS WE CANNOT MAKE THIS MOST IMPORTANT COMMUNITY SERVICE HAPPEN!!
Bible Study tonight
April 16th, 2025
7:00 pm via Zoom
Tonight’s Readings
Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24
On this day God has acted
118:1O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever!
118:2Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.”
118:14The LORD is my strength and my might; he has become my salvation.
118:15There are glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD does valiantly;
118:16the right hand of the LORD is exalted; the right hand of the LORD does valiantly.”
118:17I shall not die, but I shall live and recount the deeds of the LORD.
118:18The LORD has punished me severely, but he did not give me over to death.
118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.
118:20This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it.
118:21I thank you that you have answered me and have become my salvation.
118:22The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
118:23This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.
118:24This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
John 20:1-18
Seeing the risen Christ
20:1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.
20:2So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.”
20:3Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb.
20:4The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.
20:5He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in.
20:6Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there,
20:7and the cloth that had been on Jesus’s head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself.
20:8Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed,
20:9for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
20:10Then the disciples returned to their homes.
20:11But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb,
20:12and she saw two angels in white sitting where the body of Jesus had been lying, one at the head and the other at the feet.
20:13They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “They have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have laid him.”
20:14When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.
20:15Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.”
20:16Jesus said to her, “Mary!” She turned and said to him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!” (which means Teacher).
20:17Jesus said to her, “Do not touch me, because I have not yet ascended to the Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'”
20:18Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,” and she told them that he had said these things to her.