{"id":19806,"date":"2026-03-26T16:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/?p=19806"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:05:32","slug":"holy-week-events-offered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/holy-week-events-offered\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Week Events Offered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beginning March 29, Hope Church provides several opportunities for praise, meditation, worship, and fellowship to enrich your experience of Holy Week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Palm Sunday sanctuary worship at 11 a.m. begins with fanfare and praise and then moves into \u201cWorship for the Way of the Cross,\u201d a dramatic reading with congregational and choral singing. It is a meditative and moving remembrance of Jesus\u2019 final days on earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holy Thursday on April 2 features the Seder potluck at 6 p.m. The Seder liturgy is a commemoration of Jewish history and of the Passover supper that Jesus and his disciples celebrated the night before his death. If you wish to participate in this potluck, please sign up by March 31 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1CkGPfb1WdyQ3XPTlFBN7K5hwb0EIvmJW_Q6nMccXOVE\/viewform?edit_requested=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seder is followed at 7:45 p.m. by a Tenebrae worship service that includes scripture and readings, music, communion, and the gradual extinguishing of candles to portray Jesus\u2019 last hours on earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hope Church joins other congregations for a community Good Friday worship service on April 3, held at 12 p.m. at Maple Avenue Ministries, 427 Maple Avenue, in Holland. All are invited for this time of meditation and remembrance of Jesus\u2019 death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday, April 5, the celebration begins with an Easter Brunch potluck at 9:40 a.m. Please bring your favorite breakfast food (muffins, fruit, egg dish, etc.) and begin our joyous time together by sharing a meal. Worship follows at 11 a.m. All are welcome to this celebration of Jesus\u2019 resurrection and new life in Christ!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning March 29, Hope Church provides several opportunities for praise, meditation, worship, and fellowship to enrich your experience of Holy Week. Palm Sunday sanctuary worship at 11 a.m. begins with fanfare and praise and then moves into \u201cWorship for the Way of the Cross,\u201d a dramatic reading with congregational and choral singing. It is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,155],"tags":[198,165,196,163],"class_list":["post-19806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-worship-and-spiritual-formation","tag-easter","tag-fellowship","tag-lent","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19808,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19806\/revisions\/19808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopechurchrca.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}