HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING AT ACC
Lenten/Easter Services
February 21 10 am
February 28 10 am
March 7 10 am
March 14 10 am
March 21 10 am
Holy Week
Palm Sunday March 28 10 am
Festival of Palms and Music
Holy Thursday April 1 7 pm
Communion and Tenebrae Service
Good Friday April 2 12 noon - 3 pm
Meditation with Music
Easter Sunday April 4 10 am
Festival of Resurrection Joy
With the music of adult and children's bell
choirs and adult and children's choirs
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Spirit and the Arts 2010
Arlington Community Church
Thanks a Million!
Thursday Nights
6:15 - 7:30 pm
Ages 7-14
Evenings for dancing and acting and finding Spirit in our young lives.
Facilitator: Michael Mansfield
In Thanksgiving for the Hard Times
March 4
March 11
March 18
March 25 - No Gathering - Spring Break in Schools
SUNDAY, MARCH 28 - Young People Lead Palm Sunday from 10 - 11 am
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Emergency Relief for Haiti
Initial emergency response grants from One Great Hour of Sharing were sent to our partners in
ministry the National Spiritual Council of Churches in Haiti [CONASPEH] and House of
Hope. Please keep in your prayers all who have been injured; those whose homes or sources of
livelihood have been damaged; those who have lost loved ones; and those who are providing aid,
healing, and rescue.
You may send contributions to the Conference Office
21425 Birch Street, Hayward, CA 94541
Make checks payable to "Wider Church Ministries"
Mark in the memo line:
"OGHS/Haiti Earthquake"
As always, gifts to OGHS for specific emergencies go 100% to that effort.
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WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS WEEK
Special activities are in italics; ongoing activities that happen weekly are in regular font.
| Sunday (3/7) |
8:45 am |
Adult Study Group |
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8:45 am |
Choir Warmup |
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10:00 am |
Morning Worship and Youth Celebration |
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11:30 am |
Young People Bell Choir |
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11:45 am |
Board of Christian Education Meeting |
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| Monday (3/8) |
7:45 pm |
Bell Choir Rehearsal |
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| Tuesday (3/9) |
7:30 pm |
Church Council Meeting |
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| Wednesday (3/10) |
6:15 pm |
Young People Choir |
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7:30 pm |
Choir Rehearsal |
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| Thursday (3/11) |
6:15 pm |
Spirit and the Arts |
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6:30 pm |
Women's Fellowship and Potluck |
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7:00 pm |
Covenant Group |
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| Sunday (3/14) |
8:45 am |
Adult Study Group |
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8:45 am |
Choir Warm-Up |
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10:00 am |
Morning Worship and Youth Celebration |
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11:30 am |
Young People Bell Choir |
MEDITATION
Lent
What will you give up for the season,
To help life along
In its curious reversals?
As if we had a choice.
As if the world were not
Constantly shedding us
Like feathers off a duck's back -
The ground is always littered with our longings.
You can't help but wonder
About all the heroes,
The lives sacrificed
In the compulsion toward the good.
All those who dropped themselves
Upon the earth's hard surface -
Weren't they caught in pure astonishment
In the breath before they shattered?
Forget sacrifice.
Nothing is tied so firmly that the wind
Won't tear it from us at last.
The question is how to remain faithful
To all the impossible,
Necessary resurrections.
Lynn Ungar
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