United Trinity Parish – LeRoy and Humeston, Iowa

Hello, Friends of United Trinity Parish,

Because you do not have Holy Week services this year—you will next year!!—Pastor Jessica Rockhold Gaul and I invite you to any Christ Community Parish services you wish to attend.

Maundy Thursday will be at Allerton UMC at 6 PM and will include communion and foot washing. Pastor Jess and her husband Tim will conduct this service.

Good Friday at Millerton UMC at 6 PM will be a Tenebrae service with no communion. This is a darker service using candles that contrasts with the glory of Easter morning, I will be conducting this service.

In Allerton at noon on Good Friday, many of us meet at the lumberyard to read the John scripture of the trial. Someone dressed as Jesus then carries a cross and leads us down the street to the gazebo south, where he is “crucified”, more scripture is read, and we sing and pray. I am a scripture reader in this. 

You are all invited to these events. As Barbara says, these are all things which help us celebrate God’s amazing, glorious gift of Jesus to us.

See you after Easter, and God bless you all.

Blessings,

Pastor Diane Olson Schroeder