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In the worship services from Palm Sunday through Easter, we will remember and think about some of the events in Jesus’ life during this period we call Holy Week.  We hope you will join us regularly for worship during this very special week in the life of the church of Jesus Christ.

From the Manchester Guardian and Reuters News Agency...

"A US solder has shot dead sixteen Afghan civilians, nine of them children, in a night-time shooting spree in a village outside his base in southern Afghanistan...

The title of this article, “Is Jesus the Messiah of Judaism?” is also the title of the fourth of the four classes in our Gathering sessions this year. That class will be held on Wednesday, March 21, at 6:20. (The Gathering classes begin/began this week, February 29, and then continue on March 7, March 14, and end on March 21.)  Whether Jesus is the Messiah of Judaism is, in one sense, a question of history. In Jesus’ time, what were the expectations Jewish people had of a Messiah: from their Bible (roughly our Old Testament) and their interpretation of it? Did Jesus fulfill those expectations? Did he, or his followers, re-define them? If so, how? We will deal with those questions in that class.

The meeting opened with a report from our Reach and Renew campaign coordinator Annette Ellstrom, who explained the distribution of pledges to our $2 million capital campaign. Foundation President Fred Wileman followed, and confirmed the Foundation's pledge of $250 thousand to the campaign, and reported the Foundation's willingness to provide up to $400 thousand as a line of credit.