Maundy Thursday
We will be offering a 7pm Seder/Holy Communion Bible Study. This will be Live Streamed on our website and Facebook pages (Evansville & Newburgh). You may download the Bible study prior here.
Good Friday
Beginning at 8am – 3pm we as a congregation will be joining together, as a congregation, in a Prayer Vigil. During each hour, we have provided prayers for personal discipleship, Redeemer ministries and world issues. We have also included Bible selections for you to contemplate, reflect and pray. This schedule can be found here
Our Good Friday service will be Live Streamed on our website and both Facebook pages (Evansville and Newburgh). There is a service bulletin available here.
Instructions for Communion this Easter
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the continued need for social isolation, we will be celebrating the Lord’s Supper as follows this Easter. We have purchased pre-packaged communion elements that have a small wafer sealed on top of a small cup of grape juice. These can be picked up on Easter before our online services between 7:00-7:45am and 9:30-10:15 am. Please take these home and watch our streaming services at 8:00am and 10:30am. When it is time for communion during these services you can unseal the elements and we will all commune together.
Communion Element Pick Up
Please enter the rear parking lot off of Norman (west of Church) and proceed to those distributing the elements near the rear door. Leave the lot via Frederick (east of Church). Do not get out of your car. You make take the number of cups necessary for those communing in your household and for any that you may be delivering to shut in members of the congregation. If you need gluten free wafers, please indicate this to those distributing. We will not be accepting offerings at that time.
The Lord’s Supper and the Consecration of the Elements
The New Testament offers very little instruction as to how to conduct the Lord’s Supper. It is the understanding of the LCMS that celebration of the Lord’s Supper is a congregational event versus and individual or family event. We also believe that the bread and wine are the body and blood of Christ only during the context of celebrating the Lord’s Supper, not before or after, unlike the Roman Catholic Church. Therefore, there is no such thing as pre-consecrated elements.
