Ravenswood Covenant Church has a great opportunity to help people in Honduras obtain clean water.
Every day, 1600 children under the age of five die from diarrhea due to lack of clean water, and women and children fear the worst as they walk for miles to gather water for their families. In many countries, families do not have running water available to prepare food, drink, bathe, and provide toilets. People must walk for miles,
sometimes 4 times a day, to a river where they carry back dirty water to provide for their families.
Covenant World Relief is our denomination’s help agency to alleviate many needs around the world. One of these prominent needs are in Honduras where our financial gifts will be partnering with a whole community to dig wells and provide a pipeline for running water to their homes.
Please take a lid and label home. Attach these to an empty soup can (they also fit on mason jars), then place the bank on your kitchen table or other accessible spot. Each day have family members add
some money, give thanks, and pray for needy people around the world.
On Pentecost Sunday (May 24) we will corporately bring these banks to church, then send our support and help to this Honduras community. Additional questions: ask Janelle Hollingshead or Colleen Carlson.
Holy Week Worship
In conjunction with Grace Covenant Church, Immanuel Covenant Church, and Resurrection Covenant Church, we are participating in the Paschal Triduum. On Palm Sunday we remember our expectations for the coming reign of Christ. In the week that follows, together we retrace the path that Jesus took towards his exaltation — a path of suffering and death but also of resurrection, new creation, and new life.
During this week we’ll wave our palms along the road to Jerusalem, have our feet washed by our Lord, and eat at his table. We’ll witness his arrest, be crushed by the crucifixion, and grieve his death. And, we will marvel and wonder at his resurrection.
Walk with us.
Holy Week Services, all at 7:30pm
Childcare provided for all services
April 17: Maundy Thursday at Ravenswood Evangelical Covenant Church
April 18: Good Friday at Grace Evangelical Covenant Church
April 19: Holy Saturday at Resurrection Covenant Church
April 20: Easter Sunday at Ravenswood! Join us at 9:30am for breakfast and at 10:45am for worship!
For your calendar:
April 26: Ladies Tea at Carol Erickson’s house, 9:30am-12pm
May 4: Parenting ProGRESS Sunday, meal after church – please bring side dish to share
May 11: Confirmation Sunday and Mother’s Day
May 18: Church Picnic
Scripture for Sunday, April 20
Easter Sunday
John 20:1-18
Psalm 118:21-29
Holy Week Worship
In conjunction with Grace Covenant Church, Immanuel Covenant Church, and Resurrection Covenant Church, we are participating in the Paschal Triduum. On Palm Sunday we remember our expectations for the coming reign of Christ. In the week that follows, together we retrace the “actual” path that Jesus took towards his exaltation — a path of suffering and death but also of resurrection, new creation, and new life.
Walk with us.
Maundy Thursday, April 17
Ravenswood Covenant Church
4900 N. Damen Ave
Good Friday, April 18
Grace Covenant Church
4201 N. Monticello Ave
Easter Vigil, April 19
Resurrection Covenant Church
3901 N. Marshfield Ave
All services are at 7:30 PM
Childcare available at all services
Please note that the Easter Vigil on Saturday is fairly long.
Childcare will still be available.
"With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable will we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade." (Mark 4:30-32 NRS)