Holy Week Services - Church Plant, ABQ, NM

Praying your Holy Week in the time of coronovirus is going well and you are full of the peace which surpasses understanding. We had been meeting for Evening Prayer with Communion until the stay-at-home order came but have tried to at least have Evening Prayer liturgies available. If you want a copy of any of the past prayers, let us know!

We have decided to do two virtual services this week:
Good Friday at 6 pm 
Easter Vigil - Saturday evening at 7:30 pm

The Zoom link for both services is: https://zoom.us/j/9030345803 [Meeting ID: 903 034 5803]  

We suggest having the following on hand: a cross for Good Friday candles for each person & bells/keys/noisemakers for Easter Vigil

The Kenyan liturgy includes the following:

All of our problems

We send to the cross of Christ

All of life's difficulties

We send to the cross of Christ

All the devil's works

We send to the cross of Christ

All of our hopes for wholeness

We set on the risen Christ

From meditating on that, we came up with an idea for participating together during this Holy weekend. Some time before Good Friday service, please email or text us a word or phrase that represents those things that are on your heart to "send to the cross of Christ" (there are no limits, no right or wrong answers, nothing too big or too small). We will write these down on slips of paper and place them before the cross during the Good Friday service, they will be buried with Christ, and then cast into his light at Easter Vigil.  If you can only make one service or neither, please feel free to send us words or phrases anyway. 

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630-532-9242

Fun & Funding (not mutually exclusive!)

So in our mad efforts to make the most of our summer financial opportunities since wrapping up J-term classes, we spent a couple weeks mid-July dogsitting in the town ten minutes up the river. It’s a good thing that Noel already knows this dog up close and personally from my acquaintance with his family, because he’s named Mozart, which might have led me to expect a dog that weighed less than my husband. It would have taken a name like Wagner or Tchaikovsky to start giving me a sense of the ginormity of this dog. As it was, we fortunately knew ahead of time that Moe is a hefty guy. His tongue is as long as my arm and runs like a faucet, and he overheats pretty quickly, so much of our quality time was confined to the kitchen where the drool puddles could be easily mopped up. He’s been trained to keep his, um, messes, in one small part of the yard, a worthwhile investment of training time and expense, for sure. Indeed, he’s been well-trained overall and can’t help that his front and his back don’t always coordinate.

This picture does not do Mozart's magnitude justice.

Our other work time is spent barista-ing at Starbucks and lifeguarding at the YMCA outdoor pool (under the cloud of the nuclear power plant!). (Noel is now known throughout western PA for her water-treading skills, an event she won at the YMCA lifeguarding competition - woooo, that's my wife! -G.) Even though we’re working a lot, we get some fun in the neighborhood with our peeps here and there:

Scott plays tennis. Which means he plays badminton too. Look out, Greg!

Our agent has asked us to make an appearance via Skype in the Chicagoland area on Wednesday, August 31 at 7 pm in Wheaton. Thanks to those of you setting this prayer time up as we launch into Year 2. If you want more info on that gathering, email us.