Ecumenical gatherings supplement Easter Week services

LA GRANDE — The La Grande First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) announces the following schedule for Holy Week (all gatherings are held at the church unless otherwise stated):

March 28, Thursday

• 1:30 p.m. Homemakers Bible study
• 5:30 p.m. Maundy Thursday soup and bread supper
• 6:15 p.m. Maundy Thursday service

March 29, Friday

• 6 p.m. ecumenical Good Friday service at the United Methodist Church

March 31, Easter Sunday

• 6:30 a.m. ecumenical sunrise service at the Ascension School in Cove
• 9 a.m. adult Bible study
• 10:30 a.m. Easter worship service

The week after Easter, the Bible Sleuths group will meet at 4 p.m. on Monday, April 1. On Tuesday, there will be a Finance Committee meeting at 1 p.m.

Church leadership offers Easter message of hope

NORTHEAST OREGON — Worship services on Easter Sunday, March 31, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be limited to our one-hour Sacrament service.

The First Presidency has issued an Easter message, part of which follows: This Easter season, we invite you to ponder the Savior’s atoning sacrifice and glorious Resurrection, which bless all of us. … The Savior promises that as we keep His commandments and ordinances, we will have “peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come” (Doctrine and Covenants 59:23). We testify that Jesus Christ lives! … Through our faith in the Savior’s atoning sacrifice, the bonds of sin cannot hold us and the trials that we experience in life will have no lasting power over us. “The sting of death is swallowed up in Christ” (Mosiah 16:8).

The full message issued by the First Presidency — Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks and Henry B. Eyring — can be found in the newsroom section on the church’s website.

Grace at the Place

celebrates Holy Week

ISLAND CITY — Grace at the Place Community Church announces a series of activities and services during Holy Week, the week that leads up to Easter. All are welcome to attend any of these events. The Place is at 62848 Philynda Loop in Island City.

On Maundy Thursday, March 28, a Bible study is offered at 10 a.m., followed by a buffet lunch at 11:30 a.m. and a screening of the film “The Passion” at 12:15 p.m. A Good Friday worship service is at 7 p.m. on March 29, and on Easter Sunday, March 31, a breakfast is served at 8:30 a.m. and Easter worship begins at 10 a.m.