Bellwether Holy Week Services

This week is Holy Week, the most important week in the Christian calendar.  We celebrate, remember, honor, and can ultimately be transformed by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.

At Bellwether, each year we try to honor Holy Week in a great way.  We do our best to take you through Holy Week, event by event, step by step - from the Last Supper to the cross and the empty tomb.  Each service is unique and powerful in its own right.  We hope you will be able to attend some of them.  At best, we hope you can be at each one.  If you can, we believe you will experience the fullness and magnitude of this Easter Holy Week.  

Here are our planned services, times, and places, and what they are about:

Maundy Thursday:  6pm dinner, 7pm service.  At Bellwether Fondren beside Cups.  This service is about experiencing in a small way what it was like at the Last Supper Jesus had with His disciples.  We will eat together as the body of Christ, we will reflect on what was happening that evening, and we will take Holy Communion together.  Again, this service is at 7pm, with dinner before.  You are welcome to bring the entire family.  This year, we will have the service outdoors in our Fondren space.

Good Friday Tenebrae service:  11:30am, Jackson Academy Performing Arts Center.  Many people say this is our most powerful service each year.  It is extremely moving.  A Tenebrae service is when you focus on the death of Christ on the cross.  It will be extremely dark, in lighting and in tone in reflecting the death of our Lord.  We will go over each sentence Christ spoke on the cross, and give a brief message on what He said.  Please try to attend this service and invite someone to it. 

Baptism service Easter morning.  7am.  Outside Jackson Academy's Performing Arts Center.  Bellwether will have its immersion baptismal outside to baptize new believers of Christ.  At this moment we have 8 people who will be baptized.  However, anyone is welcome to come forward and be baptized by water and the Holy Spirit.  Why this baptism on Easter morning?  A tradition of the early church was to baptize new converts each Easter morning, and have them affirm that they believe the tenets of the Apostle's Creed.  We will honor this tradition of the early church as we begin to celebrate that Christ has Risen! 

Easter Resurrection - 10:30am - Jackson Academy Performing Arts Center.  He is Risen!  We will rise again if we have faith in Him!  This is our Easter celebratory service of New Life and that Jesus is Lord!  We hope you can be with us to worship, celebrate, and invite someone who needs to hear the Good News of New Life in Christ!  

We hope to see you often in the next few days as we walk together through the Last Supper, the Cross, and the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We believe He will bless you, and change you, through it.