This year, many of us are feeling a little lost and disappointed, because Easter at Emory will look very different this year. This will be the first Easter for many of us where we won’t be attending in-person church services and Easter celebrations.

At the end of the day though, Easter is about more than a big event in our church building. It’s about more than our Community Sunrise Service, Community Breakfast and Easter Egg Hunts. Easter is a day that’s all about the fact that the tomb is empty. Jesus is alive, and in him we find our life.

This Easter will be different, but God works through all things to bring about good (Romans 8:28). And while we wouldn’t have necessarily chosen to do Easter this way, may God bless you, our church family and our community this Easter.

Remember that even though our church building may be empty, so is the tomb! Christ the Lord is risen, Alleluia!

Join us on Emory’s website or our Facebook Page for our live-streamed Easter Service as we celebrate at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday.

Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)
Healing Begins
Because He Lives (Amen)

On Holy Thursday Christians commemorate the supper Jesus shared with his disciples before his crucifixion, when Jesus washed the disciples’ feet (John 13:1 –17) and instituted the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper (Matthew 26:26 –29; Mark 14:22 –25; Luke 22:13 –20; 1 Corinthians 11:23 –25).

A Service of Tenebrae, or “Shadows,” is a prolonged meditation on Christ’s suffering and is is based on a twelfth–century late night/early morning service and is an extended meditation on the passion of Christ. Good Friday readings trace the story of Christ’s passion, music portrays his pathos, and the power of silence and darkness suggests the drama of this momentous day. As lights are extinguished, we ponder the depth of Christ’s suffering and death; we remember the cataclysmic nature of his sacrifice as we hear the overwhelming sound of the “strepitus”; and through the return of the small but persistent flame of the Christ candle at the conclusion of the service, we anticipate the joy of ultimate victory.

Watch the Holy Thursday Service and Good Friday Tenebrae Service