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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Wishing You a Blessed Easter


By RON MALY

This is Holy Week and we're doing The Church Tour in the Twin Cities. It helps that a number of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod churches in the St. Paul/Woodbury, Minn., area provide both late-morning and night services at the Easter season. That enabled us to attend both the 11:30 a.m. Maundy Thursday service at Emmaus Lutheran Church, 1074 Idaho Avenue West in St. Paul, and the 7:30 p.m. Service at Woodbury Lutheran.  A feature of the service at Emmaus was Michael Dorner's expert work at the pipe organ with such hymns as"When You Awoke That Thursday Morning," "O Lord We Praise Thee" and the distribution hymn "Draw Near and Take the Body Of The Lord." The reason we went to both services was because our granddaughter Shelby was busy with her classes at Concordia Academy during the day, but was able to join everyone else at the 7:30 service at Woodbury. Lutheran at night.  A highlight has been that another of our granddaughters, Shelby's older older sister, Jerika,  has been in Woodbury all week while on break from her classes at Concordia-Irvine University in Irvine, Calif. There was no school for Shelby on Friday, so everyone was able to attend Eastern Heights Lutheran Church, 616 Ruth Street in St. Paul--with Rev. Steve Benson in charge, Mark Krause at that the organ and piano and Kathy Jacobson the soloist--at the 11:30 a.m. Good Friday service. We'll be going to the 10:45 a.m. service at Eastern Heights Lutheran on Easter.  I hope all of you have a Blessed Easter.