8:00AM  In person
10:00AM  In person and livestream  

 Read  Matthew 28:1-10 

Sorrow gives way to “fear and great joy” when two women are sent by an angel to proclaim the good news: Jesus is risen!

Easter is the greatest holiday in the church. We celebrate that even in a world filled with terror and suffering, God is reconciling the world and renewing it through his ultimate act of new life in Christ.

This is not to say death or decay do not exist, but Jesus is the radical new beginning of healing all creation.

Join us on Easter Sunday at 8am or 10am and experience the good news of God’s resurrection promise in Jesus. 

4/2  Palm/Passion Sunday - Join us @ 10am to enter the story of Jesus’ final week beginning with the triumphal entry and the waving of Palms.

4/6  Maundy Thursday - Join us @ 6:30pm for the Living Last Supper worship as we sit around the last supper table with Jesus and the disciples.

4/7  Good Friday - Join us @ 6:30pm for a Tenebrae worship commemorating Jesus’  death on the cross and the extinguishing of the light of the world.

4/8  Easter Vigil - Join us @ St. John’s Episcopal Church at 8:00pm in a service of light in expectation of dawn of Easter morn.

4/9  Easter - Join us @ 8am or 10am for the joy of Christ’s resurrection and Jesus’ victory over death.              

The Sanctuary will be open from 12:00pm Noon until 6:00 pm for prayer and meditation if you would like to take an hour to pray for our congregation, our community and our world.

If you would like to take a shift or submit a prayer request, please call Becky Voges at 830-587-4003. 

Calling all families with children elementary school age and younger! 

Join us on Saturday, April 8th @ 10:30 am for an outdoor family Easter celebration at the church featuring an Easter egg hunt, singing, Easter crafts and other activities! Be sure to invite friends!   

 We will be serving Breakfast tacos, rolls and fruit before and between the 8:00am & 10:00am Easter Worship Services. 

Help us decorate our altar area on Easter Sunday with an Easter Lily. The Lilies are $10 each.

If you would like to add a little extra color, we have the option of a Tulip plant for $20.

The sign-up sheet is in the Narthex or you can text or call Kathi Anderson 210-643-8855 and she will add you to the list.

After the Easter Service you can take your plant home with you. 

Starting with Maundy Thursday services, Peace Lutheran will have a new hearing assist system to support those with hearing clhallenges. 

The new system moves away from a proprietary FM radio based system to a more flexible service  leveraging current day standard wifi and bluetooth technologies built into many modern day hearing aids, cochlear implants, and as well supports a broad base of wired and wireless headphones and earbuds.  This moves us from a 'one size for all' solution to a solution that can accommodate a broad variety of use cases across our members and guest.

If your hearing assist solution supports Bluetooth connectivity and you have a smart phone, the best way is going to be for you to install an app called Wavecast, available from Williams AV. It is available for free on your iOS or Android device. At church you will connect to the church's wifi network.  The Wavecast app will pick up the church service audio being transmitted over the church's wifi and then relay it to your hearing assist device of choice via Bluetooth (hearing aids, ear buds) or wired connection (ear buds, headphones,etc.)!

Sound complicated?  It may, but it really works like many standard services you likely already use today!  Someone will be available to assist you to get started.

Don't have a smartphone?  No worries! We will also have four handheld receivers (basically they are wifi only Android phones) with headphones or earbuds similar to the solution we use today, but can also be used to connect to your personal bluetooth enabled hearing assist devices or any wired devices, just like your personal cell phone can connect to!  You can bring your own listening device and connect to these receivers if you like!

We look forward to offering those with hearing challenges in our congregation some new, improved way to engage more fully in the worship experience!

If you want to know more, feel free to talk To Jeremy Davenport or Don Hodde at church. They would be happy to assist. 

You are invited to participate in Peace Feast (a small group gathering for a meal and conversation to get to know one another). The host of the month will be in contact with you to determine the date, time, and location of a meal. It can be either at a restaurant or in a home.

If interested in partaking in a meal, register HERE. For more information or questions, please contact Jane Moeller at 830-214-0539 janecmoeller@gmail.com or Darcy Mittelstaedt at 480-231-0658 darcy.mittelstaedt@gmail.com   

P.S. We have/had 24 people signed up for February! One group has already met and reported it went very well and looking forward to the next month. 

Family Promise’s mission is to help families with children facing homelessness achieve and sustain independence. Families move to a new congregation each week in which they are hosted as guests. Each week congregations provide shelter, meals, and community for the families in the evenings.

Host Week of April 9^th - 16^th - Daily volunteers needed for the following:

>   Serve as overnight hosts
>   Help with evening set up, clean up, and engagement with families
>   Support meal preparation, cooking, and serving 

Interested in volunteering? See schedule to sign up! -   https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E49A9A82CABFEC52-family3 

Have not attended a Family Promise Training? Please reach out to peacelutheranfp@gmail.com to receive an orientation and to complete required paperwork for background check. 

Not able to volunteer? We will also need donations of snacks and breakfast items.

For more information, visit our page on the Peace website: https://www.peacenb.org/pages/family-promise 

Thank you! 

 And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big block letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision message is a witness pointing to what’s coming. It aches for the coming—it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie. If it seems slow in coming, wait. It’s on its way. It will come right on time." Habakkuk 2:2-3 (The MSG) 

You are invited to come and create a Vision Board for Peace Lutheran Church on Sunday, April 16^th from 11:30 AM til 2:00 PM. There will be a free-will offering lunch. You have been invited by Pastor Jake and the leadership teams of Peace Lutheran to listen for God’s whispering voice of what God has in store for Peace Lutheran.

What is a vision board? It is a visual and written representation of our prayerful hopes, dreams, goals, and promises from God for our future. This is a creative process, and we encourage and invite all, including kids to come and participate.

We are looking for OLD magazines and newspapers that can be donated for this project. You can drop them off in the designated area in the church narthex.

Register HERE by April 12th. 

SEEKERS AND SPONGES:   meets on Sunday mornings @  8:30AM in-person and ZOOM  **No class on Easter Sunday, April 9**

Seekers and Sponges has started a new five part video series by Richard Rohr called  'Embracing an Alternative Orthodoxy'.  In this series, Richard Rohr explores five topics central to Franciscan theology and practice:
1.     Atonement Theory
2.     Eco-Spirituality
3.     The Christ who Existed before Christianity
4.     Orthopraxy vs. Verbal Orthodoxy (Living Like Jesus)
5.     Mysticism over Moralism

Each session starts with a video and then our class will discuss reflections from the talk. Our discussions are lively and bring out various perspectives about how faith impacts our lives.   Please join us in the multimedia classroom at the end of the hallway.  Your faith walk will be deepened as a result!  

Click HERE to join by Zoom. 

PEACE PRAYER MINISTRY:

Did you make any resolutions for the New Year? Many of us have a desire to have a more intimate prayer life, so might I suggest carving out more time for prayer and reflection? Peace Lutheran Church has an active Prayer Ministry. We have an Email Prayer Chain, we have a Zoom “Sweet Hour of Prayer” Group that meets every Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. and we have a Prayer loom that is included in our Sunday morning prayers. I would like to welcome new members to join our email Prayer Chain and our Monday morning Prayer Group. We have experienced some amazing, answered prayers this year and we have given comfort to many of our members in their times of distress. Please consider being a part of our Prayer Ministry in this new year. You can email me at beckyvoges@yahoo.com for more information.

Our weekly Prayer Group Zooms every Monday at 9:00 am  via Zoom only.   Click HERE to join by Zoom.  We have a devotion, share prayer requests and pray over each request. The group is led by Becky Voges.  If you would like to be a part of the group, please email Becky (beckyvoges@yahoo.com).  All prayer requests will be kept confidential. 

Prayer Chain Requests - email Becky (beckyvoges@yahoo.com).

PASTOR'S VIRTUAL CONVERSATION:  **We will not be meeting Monday, April 10**
Every Monday from 3 pm - 3:30 pm; Come join Pastor Jake on Zoom to ask questions, check-in, and lift up prayers. Join HERE - Meeting ID: 991 3660 5065; Password: 015347

TECH SUPPORT:
Need some technical support? Trying to stay connected in a virtual world can be frustrating when things don't work or the technological learning curve seems steep. If you need some help, contact: Patti Kassel @ kasselpatti@gmail.com 

We now have full use of our new media booth which utilizes a sound technician, a livestream operator, and a powerpoint operator. 

To sign up to be one of the media booth technicians/operator, please click the button below to be redirected to our SignUpGenius.  You can also sign up by clicking the link at the bottom of Peace's homepage @  www.peacenb.org

If you would like to learn how to be a media booth technician/operator or you have any questions, please contact the Peace office at 830-620-0618.

We are part of one church body organized in three expressions — congregations, synods, and the churchwide organization. Each expression has its particular functions but all three together share a common mission of doing God’s work in the world and proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ. Together, they ensure a solid foundation of leadership, active involvement in communities, opportunities for dialogue and diverse perspectives, creative partnerships, and support for members and ministries of the ELCA.