Join us for this Traditional Service featuring the Seven Last Words of Christ as told by pastors throughout the surrounding church community.
This service will be livestreamed on the Central Church Facebook Page and Website via YouTube.
The order of the service will allow for participants to come and go as they are able, entering and exiting quietly during musical interludes. A list of the participating local pastors and the order in which they will be speaking is below:
FIRST WORD 12:25 – 12:45 P.M.
SCRIPTURE Father, forgive them Luke 23:26-34a
MEDITATION Rev. Lucy Waechter Webb (Independent, SALT Coalition)
SECOND WORD 12:45 – 1:05 P.M.
SCRIPTURE Today you will be with me in paradise Luke 23:34b-43
MEDITATION Rev. Tom John (Retired. Formerly Northport and Kewadin Indian Missions)
THIRD WORD 1:05 – 1:25 P.M.
SCRIPTURE Woman, here is your son John 19:25-27
MEDITATION Rev. Andrea Johnson, Old Mission UMC
FOURTH WORD 1:25 – 1:45 P.M.
SCRIPTURE My God, why have you forsaken me? Matthew 27:45-46
MEDITATION Rev. Jared Yaple, Watershed Church
FIFTH WORD 1:45 – 2:05 P.M.
SCRIPTURE I am thirsty John 19:28-29
MEDITATION Rev. Leslie Mott, The Presbyterian Church
SIXTH WORD 2:05 – 2:25 P.M.
SCRIPTURE It is finished John 19:30
MEDITATION Fr. Ciprian Streza, Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church
SEVENTH WORD 2:25 – 2:50 P.M.
SCRIPTURE Into your hands I commend my spirit Luke 23:44-49
MEDITATION Fr. Jim Perra, Grace Episcopal Church