Area Churches
Announce Plans For
Holy Week Services
The following churches have sub
mitted information to The Hrun.s
wick Beacon about Easter services:
Oak Island Presbyterian
Easter Services at Oak Island
Presbyterian Church will begin
Thursday evening, March 31, with a
Maundy Thursday Holy Commu
nion service.
The Rev. Wesley Jennings will
speak from the Gospel of Luke
23:46, "The Crossword Seven." The
service begins at 7 p.m.
On Sunday morning, he will
speak on "Seeing is Believing" from
the Gospel of John 20: 11-18.
Sunday school starts at 9:15, with
worship service at 10:15.
Holden Beach Chapel
The Rev. Jack Hancox will be
guest pastor for the 9:30 and 11 a.m.
Easter services at the Holden Beach
Chapel.
I lancox is a Baptist minister from
Yaupon Beach and is a missionary
and retired Navy chaplain.
A Maundy Thursday service will
be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, March
31.
Holden Beach Sunrise
An Easter sunrise service will be
celebrated at the Holden Beach
l-'ishing Pier at 7 a.m., co-sponsored
by the pier and Brunswick Islands
Baptist Church. Residents and visi
tors are welcome.
Seaside UMC
Members of the Wesley and
Aldergate choirs, tone chime players
and soloists will provide seasonal
music at Seaside United Methodist
Church.
The musicians are under the di
rection of Marjorie Crissman, direc
tor of music ministries.
The Rev. Jerry Eowry will preach
at all services on Easter Sunday, and
members of the congregation will
present dialogues on Maundy
Thursday and Good Friday.
During the 7 p.m. Maundy Thurs
day service, anthems and congrega
tional hymns will be interspersed
between readings from Matthew's
account of Jesus' Passion. The Last
Supper will be commemorated.
Tennebrae, the Service of
Darkness, will be observed at 7 p.m.
on Good Friday. Doreeen Lowry
and Jane Love will sing "At the
Cross."
The Festival of the Resurrection
will begin on Easter Sunday with a
sunrise service at 6:30 a.m.
Gathering will begin at 6:15.
At the 8 and 10 a.m. services.
Holy Communion will be shared.
Special music will include a piano
organ duet, "Thine Is The Glory,"
played by the tone chimes; "An
Easter Celebration," and the "Halle
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Day until Labor Day.
lujah Chorus" will he sung by the
Aldersgate Choir.
Pianists Sue Houston and Peggy
Morris will accompany.
Calabash Presbyterian
Calabash Presbyterian Church
will begin its fourth season of
"Worship on Sunset Beach" beside
the pier at X a.m. this Easter Sunday.
The second service of the season
will take place Memorial Day week
end. followed by weekly services,
weather permitting, through Labor
Day.
The interdenominational outdoor
services arc conducted by the Rev.
Dr. Francis M. Womack Jr. More
than 4,6(K) attended in 1993.
Participants are advised to dress
casually and to bring a chair or blan
ket to sit on.
Calabash Presbyterian's regular
Easter worship service will be at
9:30 a.m. in the sanctuary.
Dixon Chapel
An Easter Passion Play will be
presented by Dixon Chapel Church
in Varnamtown on Saturday, April 2.
and Sunday, April 3, at 7:3(1 p.m.
both evenini's.
The service will include special
sound effects.
Revival services at Dixon Chapel
are scheduled for April 4-7, also at
7:30 p.m. with the Rev. Jesse James
Rushing of Hickory.
Special music will be provided by
the Dixon Choir, Monday; the
Missionaires, Tuesday; the Union
Chapel Youth Choir, Wednesday;
and Mr. and Mrs. Tim Watson,
Harvest Fellowship, Thursday.
Brunswick Islands Baptist
"Into Your Hands I Commend My
Spirit," a Tennebrae and Commun
ion service, will be held at Bruns
wick Islands Baptist Church
Maundy Thursday (today) at 7 p.m.
A Good Friday service featuring
music by The Missionaires quartet
will be held April I at 7 p.m.
An Easter Sunday sunrise service
will he held at the Holden Beach
Pier Sunday starting at 7 a.m.
Daylight Savings Time. The event is
eosponsored by Brunswick Islands
Baptist and the management of the
pier.
Village Point UMC
Village Point United Methodist
Church will celebrate Easter and the
spring season with a variety of activ
ities this weekend.
On Saturday, April 2, the spring
bazaar will be heid from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m., with a children's Easter egg
hunt at 11 a.m.
The Resurrection will be celebrat
ed with a sunrise service Sunday,
April 3, at 6 a.m., followed by re
freshments in the fellowship hall.
An Easter program will be pre
sented at 6 p.m.. also followed by
refreshments.
All are welcome, said spokesman
Patty Jones.
Harvest Fellowship
Harvest Fellowship Pentecostal
Holiness Church presents the Easter
drama "The Night Before?The Day
After" Saturday, April 2. at 7:30
p.m.
The church is located off N.C.
130 east of Shallotte on Graybridge
Road.
For more information call the
church at 754-7051 or 287-4267.
Assembly of God
The South Rrunswick Islands As
sembly of God presents the illustrat
ed sermon, "The whip, the hammer
and the cross," in music and drama
Easter Sunday at 11 a.m.
The assembly worships at 5850
Beach Drive near Ocean Isle Beach.
Ocean Isle licach Chapel
Ocean Isle Beach Chapel will be
gin this year's "Sunday Morning
Worship on the Stiand" with an 8:30
a.m. Easter Sunday service led by
the Rev. Lec Roney, pastor of Living
Word Church in Chadbourn.
Worshipers will meet at the cross
just west of the Ocean Isle Beach
Fishing Pier.
The chapel's next service will
take place Memorial Day weekend,
then every Sunday through Labor
Day weekend.
Shallotte First Baptist
Shallottc First Baptist Church will
hold a sunrise service Easter Sunday
at 6:30 a.m., with breakfast to fol
low. Members and visitors are invit
.wl
tu.
On Saturday, April 2, the Shal
lotte First Baptist Brotherhood will
hold a breakfast at 7 a.m. with a
speaker from the Brunswick Baptist
Association. I lis topic will he the as
sociation's mobile disaster relief
trailer.
St. James the Fisherman
At St. James the Fisherman
Episcopal Church in Shallotte, an
Easter vigil service will begin at (i
a.m. at Gause Landing, where St.
James had its beginning in the 1930s
under a live oak tree on the banks of
the Intracoastal Waterway.
I"he following Holy Week ser
vices have been scheduled:
?March 3!, Maundy Thursday, ft
p.m. Seder dinner, 7:30 p.m. Holy
Eucharist.
?.April I. Good Friday, 3 p.m.,
church open for devotions. Noon:
Good Friday liturgy. The Rev. Don
Safrit will deliver the homily. Sta
tions of the Cross through town at
2:30 p.m., beginning and ending at
St. James, with St. I.uke. Camp
Methodist and Shallotte Presby
terian participating.
?April 2: Holy Saturday Liturgy,
10 a.m.
?.April 3: T 'he Easter vigil service
at 6:30. Continental breakfast at the
church, 8:30-9 a.m. Family service,
M a.m.. informal Eucharist and
Flowering of the Cross, followed by
an Easter egg hunt. Celebration of
the Resurrection, 11 a.m., followed
by the scaling of the chuuh corner
stor.
Verse and prose contemplations,
intentions and prayers will he scaled
under the cornerstone, not to he
opened until Easter 2093.
St. Luke Lutheran
St. Luke Lutheran Church has
scheduled the following Lenten and
Haster season services, according to
Pastor Don Safrit:
?Maundy Thursday, March 31,
St. Luke wil have a joint worship
service at Shallottc Presbyterian
Church. Seder meal worship begins
at 6:30 p.m.
?Good Friday. April I, joint
worship service at St. James the
fisherman Episcopal Church. Shal
lottc. This "Stations of the Cross"
worship service will take place from
noon until 3 p.m.
?Faster Day, April 3, sunrise
service at 6:30 a.m. on the church
property site, U.S. 17, Ocean Isle
Beach. Easter Day schedule: l> a.m.
Sunday School and 10 a.m. Holy
Communion worship, both at
Shallottc Middle School.
Shallotte Church Of God
Shallottc Church of God will pre
sent "Victory of the Cross" Easter
Sunday at 11 a.m.
Revival services are scheduled
April 10-13 with Pastor Thomas Lee
on "Realizing God's Will." Service
times are Sunday at 11 a.m. and 6:30
p.m., and Monday through
Wednesday, 7:30 nightly. There will
be special guest singing each
evening.
Other upcoming events include
Youth World Evangelism Action,
"Mission Mexico," April 17; Pastor
Appreciation Sunday, April 24 at 11
a.m.; and Young Adult Fellowship.
April 21). 7:30 p.m.
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