Greetings!
Good afternoon all, Here you have a day by day, hour by hour account of preparations and service times for Holy Week. Hope you find this helpful. Keep it someplace handy for easy reference.
Schedule:
Wednesday, March 25
6:30 pm – Children’s Choir
6:30 to 7:00 pm – Covenant Carillons
7:00 pm – Orchestra rehearal with Joyful Noise and Hymns for Sunday
7:30 pm – Orchestra rehearsal with the Wesleyan Choir
Palm Sunday:
7:30 am – Arrival bells, choir and orchestra for rehearsal
8:30 am – Service of Worship
10:45 am – In places for 11:00 Service
2:30 pm – Joyful Noise rehearsal
4:30 pm – Revelation Ringers rehearsal
5:15 pm – Revelation Singers rehearsal
Wednesday, April 1
6:30 pm – Children’s Choir
6:30 pm – Covenant Carillons
7:30 pm – Adult Choir
Thursday, April 2
6:30 pm – Covenant Carillons Rehearsal
6:45 pm – Adult and Youth Choirs Arrive (youth are invited to sing the anthem)
7:00 pm – Maundy Thursday Communion Service
Friday, April 3
6:30 pm – Readers/Disciples rehearse
6:45 pm – Adult Choir warm-up
7:00 pm – Good Friday Service
Sunday, April 5
6:15 am – Youth Singers Warm-up
6:30 am – Sunrise Service
8:00 am – Warm up for 8:30 Worship
10:45 am – Warm up for 11:00 Worship
No afternoon Rehearsals
Music for Services:
Palm Sunday:
Prelude – Hosanna, Loud Hosanna – Joyful Noise Ringers
Lenten Canticles
Hymns 280 and 298
Readers: Miles Olsen, Cherl Harrell, Jason Redick, Katie Bayley, William Powell III, Dotty Costello, Sheli Erenberger, Sharon Harris
Chamber Orchestra
Maundy Thursday:
Prelude: Ah, Holy Jesus – Covenant Carillons
Opening Hymn: Taste and See – Bells with Youth and Adult Choir
Anthem – My Song is Love Unknown – Covenant Carillons
Closing Hymn – 614 For the Bread Which You Have Broken
Good Friday:
Prelude: When Jesus Died for Me – Adult Choir
Hymns: 2112, 2155, 484, 367, 2198, 488, 288
Solo: He touched Me (Bob Michael)
Duet: When You Prayed Beneath the Trees (Chelsea Sparks and Taylor Loudermilk)
Readers/Disciples: Dave Hill, Lee Shore, Dante Paa, Bob Michael, Rick Davis, Mike Johnson, Ryan Baumgardner, Dan Kasten, Jim Guest, David Valcourt, Tremayne Phillips, William Bryan
Instrumentalists: Jonathan Kaan, Bill Franklin, Efrain Sain
Easter:
Sunrise Service – Youth Choir singing “From Rising of the Sun”
8:30 and 11:00 Worship
Prelude – Children’s Choir singing “This is the Day”
Anthem – 8:30 Youth Choir, 11:00 Adult Choir singing “God So Loved the World”
Offertory – Adult Choir and instruments – “Canticle for Easter Day”
Benediction Response – “Hallelujah Chorus”
Hymns – 302, 303
Instrumentalists: Bruce Allen, Dan Patman, Alex Stahl, Logan Johnson, Rachel Millaway
Dates to Remember:
April 18 – Craft Fair
April 26 – Annual Spring Ring Handbell Concert
May 2 – Junktique
May 17 – Senior Sunday
May 24 – Children’s Musical
June 15-19 – Vacation Bible Camp
July 20 – 28 – Combined Choir and Mission Trip Dates are approximate
July – No Adult Choir Rehearsals
August 3-8 – Fine Arts Camp
Mark your calendars for October 3 for “Gospel Night” at Holy Covenant. Bob Michael is the coordinator. Stay tuned for more details.
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