Local church prepares for holy week services

Published 10:22 am Friday, March 27, 2015

JULIA V. PENDLEY / During Kynett's Thursday service, everything will be draped in black. By Easter, the dressing will be white.

JULIA V. PENDLEY / During Kynett’s Thursday service, everything will be draped in black. By Easter, the dressing will be white.

As the Lenten season comes to an end, local churches are turning their eyes to Holy Week, which begins this Sunday with Palm Sunday.

Kynett United Methodist Church is looking forward to celebrating the special time in their new building for the first time. Blanche Cason, a member at Kynett, said their traditions help attendants imagine the difficulties Jesus faced.

Cason said everything was draped in black for the last Maundy Thursday service that pastor Carolyn Webster conducted. When the congregation returned on Easter, the black had been replaced with white.

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“It would have made you cry,” she said. “As long as I’ve been around, I’ve never witnessed something like that.”

Cason expects this year’s service to be just as impactful.

Cason said Holy Week is important because it allows people to focus on the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross.

“Easter and Holy Week is a time to refresh your memory back on the Messiah,” she said. “It brings back what his death was all about, and that was to save us.”

This year’s service on Maundy Thursday will be at 6 p.m., and there will be an Easter sunrise service at 7 a.m.

Cason said Easter prepares Christians to face the world.

“It should make us more aware of how to live in this world today,” she said.

Cason believes this Easter will be the beginning of a great transformation at Kynett. The goal of the church is to reach out to those who are hurting.

“Kynett is about saving lives, about getting people to come to the church,” she said. “If we don’t bow down on our knees and ask God to help us, we’re lost.”

Cason said with recent events in Lincoln County, people should be feeling something is wrong.

“We need to come together as a community and worship together,” she said. “We would be a lot better off.”

Cason said the focus should be on getting young people back in the church.

“We’re going to be out in the community more and more, and I believe this Holy Week is the way to start it off,” she said.

Cason said Kynett’s doors are always open to anyone looking for a church home.