Holy Week & Easter 2024

This Sunday, we enter Holy Week…
 
March 23 – Palm & Garment Sunday Worship at 10 am
Clothing donations are welcome as we lay branches and garments to welcome Jesus into the Holy City.
March 28 – Maundy Thursday Worship at 7 pm
We receive forgiveness and remember Jesus’ last supper with his disciples, as we share holy communion. We are invited into Jesus’ command to love one another, as he washes his disciples’ feet and invites us to humbly serve one another. The altar is stripped as the service and we prepare to go to the cross with Jesus.
March 29 – Good Friday Worship at 7 pm
We worship and pray as we hear the Passion according to Saint John.
March 30 – Easter Vigil Worship at 7 pm
We gather around the cosmic fire of creation and hear the sacred story that has carried us from Creation to this sacred day. We remember baptism, and hear the resurrection proclaimed, coming to Holy Communion to welcome Easter joy.
March 31 – Easter Sunday Worship at 10 am
With flowers and fanfare and joyful celebration, we gather to receive the news that Christ is alive!


Lenten Study

Lenten Study – Manna & Mercy
 
This Lent during at our Sunday post-worship potlucks, we’ll be using the book Manna and Mercy by Lutheran pastor theologian Daniel Erlander.  We’ll also use the book on Wednesday evening worship following the Wednesday potluck. Study Guide for Manna and Mercy.


Ash Wednesday & Lent

We enter the sacred season of Lent on Ash Wednesday, February 14 at 7:00 PM. On a day when the wider world is awash in pink hearts and chocolates and flowers, we will reflect on love and life, too, but in a different way. Worship will include communion and imposition of ashes, as we remember that we are dust, and to dust we shall return. If you are unable to attend in person worship and would like to receive ashes (and are local to Austin), please feel free to email office@peaceaustin.org and we will make arrangements with you. (There will be no potluck on February 14.)

For the next five Wednesdays (February 21 and 28, and March 6, 13, and 20), we will have a potluck supper at 6:30 followed by Holden Evening Prayer at 7:00 PM. Our worship will include reflection on Daniel Erlander’s book Manna & Mercy: A Brief History of God’s Unfolding Promise to Mend the Entire Universe.

You might also mark your calendars for Holy Week & Easter. We will worship at 7:00 PM on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Vigil (March 28, 29, and 30). And we will have worship on Easter Sunday morning at 10 AM.


Guest Pastor

Welcome Rev. Michael Coffey
 
Sunday, January 28, Rev. Michael Coffey will be our guest preacher and presider. Rev. Coffey served as Pastor Carolyn’s internship supervisor at First English Lutheran Church in Central Austin from 2010 to 2011, and has recently also worked in the non-profit sector. He is the author of Mystery without Rhyme or Reason: Poetic Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary and Renounce, Resist, Rejoice: Being Church in the Age of Trump.


Potluck 1/28

Sunday, January 28 is potluck and a class on BIAS.  It is about the biases humans typically bring to new situations and ways to change thinking to escape the boxes the biases create. This class has lots of discussion so more people will make the class more interesting. 


Potluck 12/17

Food and… The Texas Ramp Project

After the service, this Sunday, plan to stay for the potluck and learn about the Texas Ramp Project. The mission statement for The Texas Ramp Project is “Building Freedom for the Homebound”. Read more…


Welcome Ruben

Welcome to Music Director Ruben Rincon, Jr.
 
After time of transition and discernment, the Music Director Search Team, with input from members of the congregation, were overjoyed to offer the position to Ruben Rincon, Jr….and were even more overjoyed when he accepted and was ready to hit the ground running to prepare for the Christmas season. Read more…


Carol Sing Along 12/10

Celebrate the joy of the season at Peace Lutheran Church’s event, “The Loveliest Christmas Songs.”
Join us on December 10 from 5-6 pm for an evening filled with the warmth of community and the beauty of timeless melodies. No service, no sermon, in the Finnish tradition, we experience the joy of singing together.
The event will be livestreamed for those unable to attend in person. 


Deck the Halls 12/10

Deck the Halls of Peace on December 10, after the morning service. Join other volunteers in hanging garlands and wreaths and in placing ornaments on the tall sanctuary tree. Also enjoy refreshments and bring your donation for the “Cookie Crumble.” Read more…