Palm Sunday Celebration Watch the service We waved palm fronds and sang “Hosanna in the Highest” and the hymn “Hosanna, Loud Hosanna” as a part of our Palm Sunday service. However, Pastor Kelvin’s message looked toward Good Friday as we dug into the verse, The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are…
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The Climactic Cross
Watch the service From Palm Sunday to the Cross It was a joy to again sing the traditional Palm Sunday anthem, Hosanna, Loud Hosanna, remembering the Triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Then in today’s message, I looked toward Good Friday and helped us all to think about how the cross of Jesus was a…
Palm Sunday and Purposeful Resilience
Virtual Palm Sunday service Watch the service Palm Sunday was different this year as we held virtual service via Zoom, our fourth Sunday using that medium. But there were some things the same too. We couldn’t pass out fresh palm fronds as we did before, but we held up dried palms from previous years to…
Palm Sunday a Highlight
During the winter months, Pastor Kelvin held a six session confirmation class with three students. The sixth graders studied basic beliefs of the Christian church, learned about the liturgies they participate in from week to week, and discovered more about their local United Methodist Church here at Copper Hill. Pastor Kelvin asked the three to…
Palm Sunday Celebration Was Joyful
Five new members joining our church was the high point in our Palm Sunday service. Brandon Collins, a sixth grader was confirmed and joined with his grandparents Chris and Nancy Collins standing with him. Four adults also took on the covenant of membership; each one sponsored by a member of the church; Ken D’Annolfo, who…
Palm Sunday at Copper Hill Church
This coming Sunday, March 29, is Palm Sunday, the time in the church year when we remember the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem at the beginning of his last week. The Sunday gets its name from the historical fact that the disciples and the crowd laid palm branches in the path where the donkey…
Exceptional Palm Sunday service
There was lots of joy and praise and excitement at Copper Hill United Methodist Church this Palm Sunday morning. Two sixth-graders, Hunter Prevost and Christopher Collins, had completed basic beliefs class with Pastor Kelvin Jones and were ready to be confirmed. Five additional new members were ready to reaffirm their faith and join the…