I'm sitting in my office, reflecting on the events of this Lenten/Easter season. We celebrated Palm Sunday ... our children leading us with streamers and palms ... praising the King of Kings coming to set up the Kingdom we so desperately need in our lives. We had one of the best turnouts I can remember for Maundy Thursday service. It was a beautiful time of worship as we followed Jesus' command to wash one another's feet and "Remember Him" in a time of Communion together. Our District churches gathered on Good Friday to hear again the Last Words of Jesus on the cross. What a blessing!

Then there was EASTER! It was wonderful to welcome SO many to join in the celebration of our Resurrected Lord ... our Living Hope ... our Reigning KING! Thank you to so many who made that such a spectacular service! From the beautiful tomb that set the scene (Thank you Cindy!), the quartet and Abby sharing songs, Gerry on that piano, and our worship team ... What a blessing to have so much talent and people who choose to use their gifts to serve in worship. God is SO Good!

Don't forget...our Resurrected Lord doesn't just come on Easter Sunday. He is with us TODAY and EVERY day! He continues to be our Living Lord and Reigning King. Keep claiming His Presence and Power! Keep walking in His Grace and Forgiveness! Keep yielding to HIS transforming, restoring work in you. God is doing something amazing in and through ALL of our days. Let's watch expectantly and celebrate together!

Hope to see you on Sunday!

We are about to launch something new! We have a new church website! You can check it out at www.highlandparkcog.org. We are still filling in content and taking photos to create a site that looks like us and welcomes people to check out the church. Chris Cicchetti has worked hard to get this up and running.

We also designed an “APP” for our church! (Thank you Chris!!!) We will be able to download this app onto our phones or tablets or notebooks…and access information on the church, events coming up, videos of services, notifications of emails sent out, an online giving resource, and so much more! This will increase communication within the church as well as increase our outreach to those outside of the church.

Your church council is excited about this new opportunity. You will be hearing more very soon. Our hope is to have everything up and running by Easter. Our prayer is that this will invite more people to seek a relationship with Jesus and come grow with us!