LENT to EASTER 2023

Sermon Series and Schedule for Lent to Easter

Dinner Church
Wednesdays at 6pm
March 1 - March 29

Wednesdays in Lent are a time when we gather together for worship and fellowship.  The Lenten season begins with Ash Wednesday rescheduled to March 1st.  We will have a soup supper at 5:30 PM in the Community Room and worship with the imposition of ashes in the Sanctuary at 6:30 PM.
 
During the rest of the Lenten season you are invited to join us for Dinner Church (March 8, 15, 22 & 29), an experience that combines a meal, fellowship, and worship into one shared experience.  Dinner Church begins at 6:00 PM in the Community Room.  You’ll probably want to arrive ten to fifteen minutes early and find some people to sit with. 
 
Each week volunteers help get things set up, bring portions of the meal, and clean up afterward.  We work together to make these gatherings happen and experience great fellowship together.  I hope you’ll join us!
 
“Dinner church is as it sounds - dinner and church rolled into one!  It is a casual and more personal setting to share a meal, sing, hear scripture, pray, and conversation together with a group of 5-6 people.  It is like having a family meal.” - Adam and Kelli Horner

Holy Week Schedule

Lent leads us to Holy Week and these special services:
Palm Sunday w/ Kids’ Program
 - April 2, 8:30AM & 10:30AM

Maundy Thursday
- April 6, 6:30PM

Good Friday Stations of the Cross
- April 7, 6:30PM
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Easter Sunday Worship
- April 9 8:30AM & 10:30AM

CYF During Lent

CAER Drive Contest

Additional Options to Support the Contest or CAER:

Online Shopping: UPS has delivered multiple packages full of baby and personal care items to church! What a great way to support the CAER product drive that our youth are doing! If you want to send items our way through Amazon or grocery delivery, please feel free to do so. Thanks in advance!
Financially**: Giving financially via Elk River Lutheran to CAER is always an option to support this organization.
  • You can give via Check (Write it out to Elk River Lutheran Church and put "CAER" in the memo)
  • Give online using the green button below and  put "CAER" as the Give to drop down menu on the form.
** Note that CAER welcomes the financial contributions and can really stretch the donation, financial contributions will not be turned into weight for this contest.

First Communion Preparation

​All are welcome at the Communion Table here at Elk River Lutheran.  If parents feel like their children are prepared to participate in the elements, then students are welcome to do so.  All other children are invited to come for a blessing.
 
The first time students participate in the elements is a special time, and we’d like to help them be prepared to experience the Eucharist (as well as know what that word means!).  We will be offering two classes to teach Communion Basics.  Students only need to come to one class, and parents are encouraged to come to the class as well.
 
While all children are welcome, we recommend students participate in First Communion Preparation in mid-to-late elementary school and hopefully by the time they get to Confirmation (7th grade).  Parents, you know your children best, so we leave that decision up to you.
​First Communion Prep:  Sun, March 26th at 9:30am OR Wed, March 29th at 5pm
 
A Special celebration of our 1st Communionicants will be during our Lenten Dinner Church on Wednesday, March 29th beginning at 6pm. 
Families, please register for this by emailing Pastor Anne by Wednesday, March 22nd