Dear LBC family,
Greetings to you on this beautiful, sunshiny, Spring day. I wanted to take just a minute to update you on a recent change that has been planned for the very near Easter services on April 4th.
As you are probably already aware the decision was made that we will have one celebration and worship service at 10 am on Easter Sunday. One of the greatest difficulties that Covid has caused us is the separation from each other. It is this understanding and the desire for Ledgewood to continue to be a “family together” church that has led to this single service. We have ample room to carefully social distance and to follow all guidelines to be together as we celebrate our Risen Savior. Each week I see more and more people in services as many have received their vaccinations and as numbers and the severity of sickness continue to decline. It is beautiful and encouraging to see this and I look forward to all of us experiencing this together on Easter Sunday, April 4th at 10 am. I am sure that parking is no new concern here at LBC for large events or services so, if you are able, please park on Main Street and take the short walk, therefore, leaving the parking lot open for those that can not do so. If we work with servants hearts, keeping Christ and others as first in our minds then this will work out wonderfully. Let us also join together in praying for beautiful and pleasant weather as we celebrate The Great News of the resurrection.
You have also probably received word about the cancellation of the sunrise service. This is the update and change part so please take notice and plan to pass on the message to others. After meetings and much discussion it was decided that the Easter Sunrise Service will occur that morning at the Basin. (As a newcomer I am hoping that the term, “the basin” translates to all of you. If not just give me a call and I will explain.) The service will look very familiar to those of you that have attended in previous years. There will be songs of celebration, a short devotion, and a prayer time as we watch the sun rise over the trees reminding us of The One who rose from the grave 2000 years ago.
My one prayer, hope, and request for all of us is this. Traditions are beautiful and all of us have them. We have all also watched many of them come and go and that is always difficult. This trend will continue as long as humanity does. My deep desire is that while we celebrate this long standing Ledgewood and Christian tradition, and every other one as well, that we become consumed less with the feelings and memories of years past and more so with the truth that Jesus is risen and as Lord He alone is to be worshipped! HE is who we celebrate, not the traditions about Him. As many of us read through the Old Testament together we see the Hebrews, God’s chosen people, miss this time and time again. They had beautiful traditions instituted by God and still time after time they celebrated the tradition but left God out of it. He was not pleased, honored, nor worshipped in these events. Let us not be so arrogant to think that this can not happen among us. Let us be prayerful and honest that without prayer and heart checks it can and will. Far be it from us, those cleansed and enlivened by His death, burial, and resurrection, to miss this.
I look forward to celebrating Jesus on Easter Sunday, April 4th. Let us celebrate our Risen King today as we will on that day and every day He gives us to live for His glory and His glory alone.
I truly hope I convey how much of a blessing it is to be a part of this church. In a short and Covid effected time I have come to love you deeply and consider you guys as family. None of us knows the amount of time we are given but I cherish each of the moments I get with all of you here at Ledgewood.
For His Name’s sake,
Brock
April 4 2021: Easter Sunday
5:45 - Sunrise “The Basin”
10 am - 11:30 In the sanctuary all together
He is not here! He is risen from the dead, just as he said would happen.” -Matthew 28:6