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You're Invited to Brunch
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An Easter Sunday Tradition
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Join Fourth Church members and friends for the annual Easter brunch at 12:30 p.m. this Sunday. The menu for the meal will include
sliced ham, crisp bacon, scrambled eggs, hash browns, fresh fruit, waffles and syrup, Danish, orange juice, coffee, tea, and milk.
All are invited for this special time of fellowship and celebration!
Time:
Sunday, April 16
12:30 p.m.
Place:
Borwell Dining Room
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Good Friday and Easter Sunday Opportunities
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Children led us into Holy Week with their procession of palms this past Sunday. (Check out the pictures here!) This week they have two programs specially designed for them as they continue their journey to Easter.
On Good Friday,
April 14, children and their families will have opportunity to attend a brief service at 5:30 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel. They will then be invited to explore at their own pace a variety of stations set up around the chapel. These stations will be loosely modeled after the Stations of the Cross and will have a variety of activities, crafts, readings, and media present, appropriate for various ages, so that families can engage in self-guided reflection together.
An Easter program
for children five years of age through fifth grade will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Easter morning, April 16. Children will travel from room to room on the fourth floor of the Gratz Center, interacting with figures from the Gospel accounts of the resurrection and making special Easter crafts. After this journey through the Easter story is complete, children will be invited to go on an Easter egg hunt throughout the fifth floor of the Gratz Center.
Children can be dropped off on the fourth floor of the Gratz Center as early as 8:30 a.m. on Easter. There will be a variety of crafts and a movie playing to keep children entertained before the Easter program begins. Parents are welcome to attend with their children, if they like, or to return outside to join the line for worship in the Sanctuary.
Parents are asked to please use the Chestnut or Delaware doors to the Gratz Center both for dropping off children and then to exit for joining the line for worship in the Sanctuary. (The Loggia will only be used as an exit from the Sanctuary this Sunday, not as an entrance to worship.)
Nursery care will be available on Easter morning during all three morning services. It will be staffed beginning at 7:30 a.m. There will not be any children's programming (other than the Nursery for infants and toddlers) during the 11:30 service.
Good Friday Program
Time:
Friday, April 14
5:30 p.m.
Place:
Buchanan Chapel
Easter Sunday Program
Time:
Sunday, April 16
9:30 a.m.
Place:
Fourth Floor of the Gratz Center
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Maundy Thursday 12:10 and 7:30 p.m. Services
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Holy Week continues on Maundy Thursday, April 13 with worship services at 12:10 and 7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary. Both services will include Communion. Hardy Kim will preach at the 12:10 p.m. service, and Shannon Kershner will preside at 7:30 p.m.
The evening service will follow the ancient Office of Tenebrae (from the Latin for "shadows"). The service portrays the progression from light to darkness in the passion of Jesus, beginning with his abandonment on Thursday and concluding with his crucifixion. The service ends with the Sanctuary in complete darkness.
Time:
Thursday, April 13
12:10 and 7:30 p.m.
Place:
Sanctuary
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Good Friday Services at 12:10 and 7:30 p.m.
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Good Friday worship opportunities on April 14 include a noonday service at 12:10 p.m., with Rocky Supinger presiding, and an evening choral service at 7:30 p.m., both in the Sanctuary. The Good Friday Choral Service will feature works by Allegri, Barber, and Whitacre sung by the Morning Choir.
At 5:30 p.m. (see above), a Good Friday program specially designed for children will take place in Buchanan Chapel.
Time:
Friday, April 14
12:10 p.m. Good Friday Service
5:30 p.m. Children's Program
7:30 p.m. Choral Service
Place:
Sanctuary (except for 5:30 p.m.)
Buchanan Chapel for Children's Program
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Holy Saturday Service at 8:00 p.m.
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Again this year we will gather for a deeply moving Easter Vigil on Holy
Saturday, April 15 at 8:00 p.m. This special service, an ancient tradition of the church, invites us into the story of salvation as we mark the conclusion of Lent and the dawning of Easter.
We will begin by kindling a fire in the Michigan Avenue Courtyard and processing by candlelight into the darkened Sanctuary. As Easter draws near and the light of the Sanctuary increases, we will hear readings from scripture that cover the entire story of salvation, from creation through redemption, and join together in sacred song. The evening will culminate in a reaffirmation of our baptismal vows and the celebration of the Lord's Supper.
Worshipers are encouraged to bring bells to the service to joyfully ring in celebration of the resurrection.
Your heart, mind, and body will be engaged by this experiential celebration of the new life we are given in Christ. Please join us!
Time:
Saturday, April 15
8:00 p.m.
Place:
Beginning in the Michigan Avenue courtyard
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Services at 6:30, 8:00, 9:30, and 11:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
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Join us in singing the festive songs of Easter this Sunday as we celebrate the resurrection of the Lord! Our Easter worship opportunities include a sunrise service at Oak Street Beach, three Easter morning services in the Sanctuary, and afternoon Easter jazz worship service with Communion in the Sanctuary.
The Easter sunrise service on Oak Street Beach will be held at 6:30 a.m., with Hardy Kim preaching. There will be three morning worship services--in the Sanctuary--at 8:00, 9:30, and 11:30 a.m., with Tower Brass providing music leadership during all three and with Shannon Kershner preaching. The jazz service with Communion will be held at 4:00 p.m., with Nanette Sawyer preaching.
Please note that the last worship service of the morning begins at 11:30 a.m. on Easter in order to accommodate the number of worshipers on Easter morning. Also please keep in mind that Sanctuary seating for all morning services--the 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. services in particular--fills quickly and early. Additionally there may be possible delays in entering and exiting the parking garages as a result of increased traffic volume.
Entrance to the Sanctuary for morning services on Easter will be through the Michigan Avenue doors (and not, this week, through the Loggia or the Gratz Center entrances, except for those who need to make use of the handicap accessibility there).
Nursery care for children under the age of four will be available on the first floor of the Gratz Center between 7:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m., and children three years of age through fifth grade are invited to participate in our 9:30 a.m. Easter children's program on the fourth floor of the Gratz Center (see above).
Time:
Sunday, March 27
6:30 a.m. Sunrise Service
8:00, 9:30, and 11:30 a.m. Easter Worship
9:30 a.m. Children's Experience
4:00 p.m. Easter Jazz Communion Service
Place:
Oak Street Beach for the Sunrise Service
Sanctuary for all other services
Fourth Floor of Gratz Center for the children
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Share Our Easter Service Online
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A Live Stream of the 11:30 a.m. Service
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Are you unable to join us for worship this Easter? Would you like to share with out-of-town friends and family our Easter celebration? We will be live-streaming our 11:30 a.m. Easter service online at www.bit.ly/FPCworship
, which can also be accessed Sunday morning at
www.fourthchurch.org
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Those who will be with us but who would like to experience the festive worship again will also be able to view the video there later in the day and throughout the coming weeks.
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Calling All Singers
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Sing with the Fourth Church Choral Society
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Interested in singing with the Fourth Church Choral Society as they present French works in concert on Friday, May 19?
All singers are invited to join us for rehearsals on Thursdays, starting April 20 at 7:00 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel.
For more information about the Choral Society, contact
John Sherer
(312.787.4570).
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Help Chicago Lights Win $64,000!
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All It Takes Is Two Clicks on Your Electronic Devices
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We have received word that Chicago Lights is in second place in the national competition to win a $64,000 grant as part of Opus Foundation's Third-Annual Gerry Rauenhorst Building Community Award.
All it takes to move into first place is more votes--which you can place through this Friday, April 14 at 3:00 p.m., which is the competition deadline. Results will be announced next week.
To vote, simply go to www.bit.ly/GRBCA and
- click on Chicago Lights once per device (e.g., vote via your home computer and your work computer, your smartphone, your tablet)
- share the www.bit.ly/GRBCA link with friends and ask them to vote too!
With your help we can secure this important funding for our Chicago Lights community outreach programs.
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Care of Creation: Earth Day
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Recycling Tennis Shoes, Exploring Climate Change
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To mark Earth Day, which is next Saturday, our Care of Creation Committee is hosting two special opportunities next Sunday, April 23.
The first is an invitation to bring used tennis shoes to church that day and drop them off during Coffee Hour. The shoes will then be recycled into materials used in creating athletic fields and playground surfaces.
Also that day, the committee will host a screening of the film Before the Flood, a documentary about climate change. Join them at 12:15 p.m. in Room 4F next Sunday for this thought-provoking film and conversation.
Time:
Sunday, April 23
12:15 p.m.
Place:
Room 4F for the film
Coffee Hour (all morning) for dropping off tennis shoes
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Worship This Week
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Maundy Thursday
April 13, 2017
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12:10 p.m. with Communion
Hardy H. Kim, Associate Pastor, preaching
7:30 p.m. Communion Tenebrae Service
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Good Friday
April 14, 2017
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12:10 p.m.
Rocky Supinger, Associate Pastor, presiding
5:30 p.m.
Good Friday Children's Program
in Buchanan Chapel
7:30 p.m. Choral Service
featuring works by Allegri, Barber, and Whitacre
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Easter Vigil
April 15, 2017
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Easter Sunday
April 16, 2017
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6:30 a.m. Sunrise Service at Oak Street Beach
Hardy H. Kim, Associate Pastor, preaching
8:00, 9:30, and 11:30 a.m.
Shannon J. Kershner, Pastor, preaching
4:00 p.m. Jazz Service with Communion
Nanette Sawyer, Minister for Congregational Life, preaching
Worship bulletins
for this coming Sunday are available online Friday afternoon at
www.fourthchurch.org/worship/this-week.html
"News and Opportunities"
is the weekly printed newsletter distributed with the Sunday bulletin and is available online Friday afternoon at
www.fourthchurch.org/news/2017/041617no.pdf
Sermons
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Passages
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The memorial service for David Donovan, Associate Pastor Emeritus, will take place on Friday, April 21 at 10:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary.
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Concerts at Fourth Church
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Friday Noonday concerts are free.
Friday, April 14, 2017
No Noonday concert on Good Friday
Friday, April 21, 2017
Menghua Lin, pianist
12:10 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Camerata Chicago
7:30 p.m. in Buchanan Chapel
Tickets available through Camerata Chicago
(use coupon code FPCC for a 40 percent discount)
Lakeside Singers
7:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Tickets available through Lakeside Singers
Friday, April 28, 2017
John W. W. Sherer, organist
(Organist and Director of Music at Fourth Church)
12:10 p.m. in the Sanctuary
A complete concert schedule is available online.
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Volunteer at Fourth Church
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There are several ways to get involved in the mission and ministry of Fourth Church. See below for details!
Hosts and servers are needed on Easter Sunday, April 16 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. to help with the congregational Easter Brunch.
Easter Sunday Night Supper volunteers are needed to cook (2:00 to 6:00 p.m.) and serve (3:30 to 6:00 p.m.) the Fourth Church Meals Ministry supper for our guests who are hungry and homeless.
Those interested in helping out on Easter Sunday, April 16 or curious to know about additional volunteer opportunities should email Robert Crouch, Director of Volunteer Ministry.
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