Bulletins for Good Friday and Easter

Bulletin for March 29, 2026

Updates

1. Holy Week is here! Be sure to check out the schedule on the bulletin for all of our services, and invite your friends and neighbors.
2. Communion will be served on Good Friday, so take the opportunity to prepare your hearts this week.

Your friend in Christ,
Reid

Bulletin for March 22, 2026

Bulletin March 15, 2026

Deacons

I’ll have much more to say about this over the next few weeks, but at our last meeting, the Session approved a plan to begin the process of electing, training, and ordaining deacons. According to the proposed plan (which requires congregational approval), we would have three deacons serving three-year terms. Once we’ve selected our first three, they will be on a rotating system so that, each year (starting in 2027), we will elect one elder and one deacon.

For some time, our church has functioned without deacons, but as time goes on and the congregation grows, it is becoming more and more difficult for the elders to manage both the spiritual and temporal matters of the church. But in God’s wisdom, that is exactly why he gave us the office of deacon. In Acts 6, as the church was growing, the apostles found that they were unable to focus on their primary duties of spiritual leadership because the physical needs of the church were growing as well. In response, seven men were appointed to care for those needs. This was the beginning of the diaconal office, and the effect was that the church was able to better fulfill her call to evangelism and discipleship. That is our goal as well.

Again, I’ll talk more about this in the coming weeks, but this is what we would like you to do. In 1 Timothy 3:8-13, Paul gives the qualifications for deacons. Consider that passage, and pray about who you think could meet those qualifications to serve in the office of deacon. Then, pass those names along to the elders so that we can make official nominations at a congregational meeting. (As always, there will be the opportunity to make nominations from the floor at the congregational meeting as well.) And finally, pray for your elders and for our church as we move into this next stage of ministry.

One additional note: if you have been attending church with us for a while, but you haven’t formally joined in membership, now is a great time to consider it. Membership benefits you by giving you a variety of privileges in the courts of the church, but it also opens up opportunities to you for service in Christ’s kingdom, like church office. If that’s something you’re interested in, I’d love to talk about it with you.

If you have any questions about this process, feel free to ask me or another elder, and we’d be happy to discuss it further.

Your friend in Christ,
Reid

Bulletin for March 8, 2026

Updates

1. Don’t forget that the clock jumps forward this weekend!
2. The schedule for Easter weekend is in the bulletin. We will have a special service on Good Friday at 6 PM, a sunrise service at 6:30 AM on Sunday, and our regular Lord’s Day service at 11. Be sure to grab some cards from the vestibule to invite your friends and neighbors!
3. Our Wednesday night studies are continuing to meet at 5:30. If you haven’t been with us, there’s never a bad time to jump in!

Your friend in Christ,
Reid

Bulletin for March 1, 2026

Non-Essentials in the EPC

For the next several Wednesdays, we’ll be going through the Essentials of Our Faith one by one. This week was an orientation to the various doctrinal statements we use and how they relate to one another. One topic that came up was charismatic expression, or the use of gifts like tongues and prophecy. This is not a part of the life of our local congregation, but the EPC leaves room for those who are convicted that these practices are biblical. That’s something that often surprises people new to the EPC, so I wanted to go ahead and give you this link to the EPC’s Position Paper on the Holy Spirit. This is a helpful document that sets very careful guardrails on which views we allow and which we don’t.

We also discussed the issue of women’s ordination, and of course, we have a position paper on that as well. You can find it here.

Updates

1. The Lord’s Supper will be served this Lord’s Day. Be sure to prepare your hearts.
2. The Easter schedule is on the bulletin. If you remember from last year, we made some cards to help you invites your friends and neighbors. Those cards will be available again, so be sure to pick some up and spread the word!

Your friend in Christ,
Reid

Bulletin for February 22, 2026

Ash Wednesday 2026

Our Ash Wednesday service is tonight at 6 PM. While we do not impose ashes in our service (click here for an explanation), it is still a somber service. You’ll notice that I refer to it in the bulletin as “A Service of Commination and Repentance.” A commination is a threat of punishment and denunciation of sin. Though we confess our sins and seek God’s forgiveness together every Lord’s Day, repentance is the main theme of this service. So as you come tonight, take the opportunity to consider the ways in which you may need to repent. What sins have you been hiding or ignoring? What temptations beset you? Tonight is a special opportunity to bring those sins and temptation to the Lord, seeking his help.

Your friend in Christ,
Reid

Bulletin for February 15, 2026

Bulletin for February 8, 2026

Updates

1. We will have our Souperbowl Fellowship Meal immediately following this Sunday’s worship service.
2. We will have an Ash Wednesday service on February 18th at 6 PM.

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