Pine Street Life - April 2011

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Operating Budget . . . . . . 2 Session Notes . . . . . . . . . . 3 Stewardship. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 DDB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 April Calendar. . . . . . . . . 7 April Scripture. . . . . . . . . 8

April Dates at a Glance Apr 3 ������������ Bagels & Belief

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Apr 8 ��������������� DDB Benefit

Concert (p.5)

Apr 9 ������������Men’s Breakfast

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Apr 10 ���� Pine StreetWalkers

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Apr 17–24 �����������Holy Week

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Apr 17 & 24 ��������������� Youth

Fundraiser (p.5)

Apr 17 �������� One Great Hour

of Sharing (p.6)

Apr 29 �����������MAPS concert

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Volume 31, Issue 4 April 1, 2011

Stephen Ministry Needs You! The Rev. Dr. Russell Sullivan, Pastor

Our congregation has had an exciting assertiveness, maintaining boundaries in journey into Stephen Ministry, a caregiving, and grief. This is distinctively program of lay caring ministry for the Christian and focuses on God as the one congregation. We began who cures as we care. this journey in 2009 with When the Stephen a dedicated team from Ministers have completed Pine Street who received Holy Week Services their training, they will in-depth training, and be commissioned and upon our return from that Maundy Thursday ready to begin their April 21 at 7:30 p.m. training, we recruited and ministry. Working Market Square Presbyterian trained a class of Stephen under supervision, these Rev. Alex Lang preaching ministers who have been Stephen Ministers will busy sharing the love and be available to meet Good Friday Tenebrae compassion of Christ weekly with people April 22 at 7:30 p.m. with people. experiencing such Pine Street Presbyterian Recruiting committed problems as these and Rev. Kelly Wiant, Associate Pastor Stephen ministers is an many more: bereavement, at Market Square, preaching ongoing process. We single parenting, need to find more men job loss, terminal Easter Sunday April 24 at 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. and women who are illness, and long-term Pine Street Presbyterian willing to answer Jesus’ hospitalization.

Rev. Russell Sullivan preaching call to serve as Stephen While being a Ministers, beginning with Stephen Minister 50 hours of stimulating requires commitment and useful training in Christian caring of time and effort, it also brings joy and skills. This training will be led by trained fulfillment. It may be one of the most Stephen Leaders and will include a variety rewarding challenges you will ever embrace. of topics such as listening, Christian (See Stephen on page 2)

PSL deadline

Articles, photos and items of interest for the May issue of Pine Street Life are due by April 15, 2011. Please e-mail to Sue Black at BL3COL@aol.com

MAPS Presents Organist Lynne Davis

by TomClark-Jones

On Friday evening, April 29 at 7:30, Music at Pine Street (MAPS) is pleased to present the internationally acclaimed organ virtuoso, Lynne Davis in concert.

A native of Michigan, Lynne Davis graduated with honors in organ performance from the University of Michigan where she studied with Robert Clark. Shortly after, she moved to France to study with Marie-Claire Alain.

While there she also studied with Jean Langlais, Maurice and Marie-Madeleine

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Bagels and Belief Topics & Speakers April 3, 2011 What we believe about the Church Rev. Heather Sigler

May 2, 2011 What we believe about Evil Rev. Alex Lang

June 5, 2011 What we believe about Christianity and Other Religions Dr. Lee Barrett

Bagels & Belief meets in Fellowship Hall at 9:40 a.m.

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Pine Street Presbyterian Church Operating Budget 2011

In addition, you will use the skills you learn not only in your caring ministry, Week Number: 9 February 2011 but also in your everyday relationships Member giving with family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers. You will also grow spiritually needed per week $11,042.19 when you serve as a Stephen Minister. needed YTD $99,379.71 This is a great opportunity for you to live received YTD $90,245.58 into your baptismal promise to serve as a Member giving vs.

-$9,134.13 disciple of Jesus Christ. budget balance Think and pray about this opportunity.

If you decide you would like to be a Operating Funds Stephen Minister, please contact me budgeted per week $16,958.34 (238-9304, ext.101) or Robert Daub budgeted YTD $152,625.06 (737-7742). You can also speak to one of the Stephen Leaders or Ministers who expended YTD $176,474.88 will be in the Gathering Place next to Operating Funds vs.

-$34,499.31 the Stephen Ministry banner, following budget balance YTD both worship services beginning Sunday, April 3. Two things are required. First, you will need to complete an application. As soon as you contact us, we will send that to you. After your application is completed, you will be interviewed by members of the Stephen Ministry team. Our hope is that a new class will begin training in September 2011.

Stephen Ministry is a profound way to serve God and his people. We need all of you who feel called into a ministry of caregiving. I am excited to see what God is going to do in the lives of those who undertake this ministry and in the lives of those who will receive care from our Stephen Ministers. x

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Duruflé, and Edouard Souberbielle as well as other great European master organists.

For over thirty years, Lynne Davis made France her home, marrying Frenchman and Chartres International Organ Competition founder, Pierre Firmin-Didot. Between them the couple played a major role in the French organ music scene. Ms. Davis’ career was launched by taking First Prize at the prestigious St. Albans International Organ Competition in England. Since then she has appeared across the globe in concert and recital. Her unique living and working experience in France gives her the status of world authority in French organ repertoire.

A renowned teacher, she has served as organ professor at the Conservatory of Music in Clamart near Paris and from 1997 to 2006 at the French National Regional Conservatory in Caen in Normandy. In the fall of 2006, she was appointed Associate Professor of Organ, holding the Ann and Dennis Ross Endowed Faculty of Distinction chair at the Wichita State University School of Music in Kansas.

This is an unusual opportunity to hear one of the world’s greatest authorities on French music play right here at Pine Street. Plan now to be part of this exciting concert. A donation of $10.00 is suggested at the door. Child care is provided and parking is available in the South Street Garage as well as on street. Come and enjoy! x

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Session Notes for March It is that time of year again when the Undesignated Gifts Fund has started its allocation process. The Administration & Finance Committee is pleased to announce that the Undesignated Gifts Fund has $20,000 to allocate for 2012.

Do you have an idea for how Pine Street can better serve the Lord, but have reservations about available funding in these difficult economic times? Often times the lack of resources puts boundaries around our thinking of what is possible. These undesignated gifts are given in the name of God to glorify God. This creates a great opportunity for Pine Street to rise to the occasion and serve the Lord in new and better ways. Whether it is a new ministry or an idea that has lain dormant due to budget constraints, this approach should give everyone confidence that once the application is approved the money is in-hand to carry out what He has called us to do.

Pine Street’s strategic plan invites us all to be intentional with our actions and the A&F committee has designed this process to be transparent and available to the entire congregation. Since God speaks to all of us and calls us in various ways, it is important that everyone know that these funds exist and are available.

The process is quite simple. With this announcement anyone from the Pine Street faith community can fill out an application requesting funding for a particular idea, program, project, initiative, etc. that promotes or supports our ministry. The applications will be reviewed by the A&F committee and submitted to Session for consideration. Applications chosen by Session will have the approved amounts placed into the budget for the upcoming year. From now until June 30, 2011 applications will be accepted for consideration by Session during the fall budgeting process. Applications and instructions are available at www.pinestreet.org/ undesignatedgifts.html or through the church office. Upon completion of the “Undesignated Gifts Application”, please submit the application along with all supplemental pages to Michelle Kennedy, Pine Street Presbyterian Church Office Manager (contact information below).

Pine Street Presbyterian Church Michelle Kennedy 310 N. Third Street Harrisburg, PA 17101 Office: 717-238-9304 Fax: 717-232-9341 E-mail: MKennedy@pinestreet.org If you have any questions about the Undesignated Gifts Fund or how it works, please contact Jack Shepley by email jshepley@naicir.com or feel free to call (M) 717-645-2254, (H) 717-728-5552, (O) 717-761-5070.

Gave approval for Pine Street to collect needed items for the Ecumenical Food Pantry during the Lenten season.

Gave approval for Pine Street to participate in the Rebuilding Together Event Day on April 30, 2011. This will be the second year for our involvement in this event.

Volunteers will work at one or two homes doing painting, light carpentry work, and outside yard cleaning and trimming.

Approved a fund raiser, to be held two weeks in April, to raise funds for the for the Senior High Youth Group, West Virginia Mission trip.

Approved a trip to the Tuscarora Inn as a summer retreat for the Junior High Youth Group.

Prior to the Session meeting, the yearly meeting of the Session, Deacons and Trustees took place.

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Worship Matters

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by Ron Poorman

he worship service is not just another event in the life of a community of disciples.

There are many times when we gather for food, fellowship and festivity. We also gather for work, education and service. Somehow, though, Worship is a different kind of activity. Worship is an opportunity to separate ourselves from all of the business of life and work (even that of the church) and to open ourselves to the possibility of entering into a mystical experience. “Mystical?” you say. “Are you daft, man?” You might even say, “I come more out of a sense of obligation and duty than for a possible The next time experience with the Almighty.” I would suggest that if you don’t you worship, come to worship hoping or expecting to meet God, you are missing look all around the point. You may be dedicated and well-meaning, and perhaps even righteous, but you are missing something. Worship is first and for signs of foremost about communion with God. God’s presence

Births January 31, 2011 Dominic Bennett Car son of Thomas & Ann Marie Bennett Car

Deaths Ron Bollinger November 10, 1927 – February 15, 2011

with us.

Ann Dolbin Worship is held, first of all, in a sacred space, a space mortals design December 1, 1931 – and set aside according to their particular aesthetic or sense of beauty.

February 14, 2011 Everything about that space should inspire us to commune with God, to seek God, to see God. The gothic building (of which Pine Street Church is a fine example) was designed Carol Mader to force us to look up to where God is, not to look down where the common things of April 30, 1946 – life are. Even the most humble worship spaces are adorned with objects of beauty and February 22, 2011 symbols of the faith. We are called to employ our senses in worship: we are called to see, to feel, to hear, to touch, to speak with God. The worship space, stained glass windows, Ernest Shaw clerical vestments, paraments, choir, organ, bells, prayers and responses all work together July 8, 1917 – to shake us from our everyday experience and to remind us that communion with God is February 21, 2011 possible.

The liturgy of the church (the work of the people) is a call and response between laity and clergy on one side and God on the other. Pay attention to the service – listen for the call – pay attention to our response – and listen for and be sensitive to the mystical touch of God in reaction. If you can free yourself from everyday concerns and pray each word and sing each hymn full of meaning, one time you may lose yourself and those everyday worries and feel the presence of God. Preparation for worship involves the work of many people. Clergy write the prayers, plan their participation in each service, prepare sermons, organize baptisms, counsel parents prior to baptism, visit those who are ill, talk about death with their parishioners, and plan funerals and memorial services. Deacons and Elders serve communion and Deacons offer hospitality at worship and provide congregational care.

Musicians prepare music that is appropriate for the texts of the day, rehearse and offer music to glorify God. Communion Prep teams prepare communion bread and wine for use at virtually every worship service at Pine Street.

Worship and Arts Committee members prepare and hang banners and special displays for the liturgical seasons. Art exhibits are obtained and “hung” in the Gathering Place as further spiritual nourishment.

Services at Christmas and Good Friday require extra help by deacons, elders and the congregation to light candles and extinguish them. Members of the congregation volunteer as Lector, Beadle, Crucifer at 11:00 a.m. and to present the Communion Elements at 8:30 a.m. worship. Memorial Flowers are provided for worship. (More about this next month) A new committee, a “Sanctuary Guild” will oversee the care of the paraments, banners and the sanctuary.

By now, you may be sensing a theme here: Worship Matters! Not only does it matter, it takes dozens of people each Sunday to make worship happen at Pine Street Church. The next time you worship, look all around for signs of God’s presence with us. Listen for His word. Feel His touch. Answer His call.

The Call: I, the Lord of wind and flame, I will tend the poor and lame. I will set a feast for them, My hand will save.

Finest bread I will provide, Till their hearts be satisfied. I will give My life to them, Whom shall I send?

The Answer: Here I am Lord, Is it I Lord? I have heard You calling in the night. I will go Lord, if You lead me.

I will hold Your people in my heart. “Here I am, Lord. Send me.” (Daniel L. Schutte) x

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Annual DDB Benefit Concert You are invited to the annual DDB Concert on April 8, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. The Music at Pine Street series will present the annual concert to benefit Downtown Daily Bread. The concert will feature the Pine Street Quartet: Courtney Gray, Beverly Hudson, Jonathan Hudson, and John Sharpe. They perform a program of popular opera arias, duos, trios, and quartets from all the great operatic literature. Attendees will enjoy a delightful evening of music. A free will offering for DDB will be accepted.

Refreshments will be served after the concert. Thank you to all our musicians, Tom Clark-Jones, and volunteers, and to those of you who plan to attend! We appreciate your continued support!

Downtown Daily Bread needs volunteer(s) to go to Mission Central in Mechanicsburg on a somewhat regular basis to get needed supplies for DDB, then deliver them to DDB in a timely manner. Elaine Strokoff or Chris (counselor at DDB) will notify the volunteer(s) of DDB needs that can be served by Mission Central. Please contact Debbie Olson (533-4548) for more information.

Pine StreetWalkers Enjoy the early spring weather with the Pine Streetwalkers at Wildwood Lake Sanctuary on Sunday, April 10, 2011. Meet at 1 p.m. at the Olewine Nature Center parking lot. This is a three mile loop hike mostly on blacktop with some gravel and wood chip trail along the canal tow path. This is also part of the Capital Area Greenbelt. Get this section in so you can work on the remaining sections in the future. Wildwood Lake Sanctuary is located off of Wildwood Park Drive/Industrial Road which is accessible off Cameron Street (by the Farm Show) or off of Linglestown Road to the North.

For more information on Wildwood Lake Sanctuary go to http://www.wildwoodlake.org/

Men’s Breakfast Before heading out for a day of yard work you will need to be properly nourished. So come to the Men’s Breakfast on Saturday, April 9, 2011.

You will not be sorry and you will get your fill of the best breakfast food in all of Harrisburg. Breakfast will be served at 8:00 a.m., conversation and fellowship will follow. Sign up at the Welcome Center.

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Support Youth Mission On Palm Sunday, April 17th and Easter Sunday, April 24th, the youth will be running a fund raiser for their mission trip to Pickens, West Virginia this summer. Pickens is an area of West Virginia where the median income is well below the poverty line. We will be providing members of the community with important and necessary upgrades to their homes, which they otherwise could not afford.

Unlike last year where the youth ran multiple fund raisers to raise money for the trip, this year we are only doing one. Following both the 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. worship services, the youth will be in the Gathering Place offering three levels of support: the bronze nail ($15), the silver nail ($30) and the gold nail ($50).

If you choose to support the youth with a bronze nail or a silver nail, you will receive a bronze or silver nail cross as a thank you for your support.

If you choose to support the youth with a gold nail, you will receive a gold nail cross and a hand written letter from West Virginia composed by one of the youth on the trip as a thank you for your support.

Ultimately, your support goes towards paying for materials and scholarships to help our youth serve the people of West Virginia.

All donations are tax deductable and much appreciated for this important mission to serve the rural poor.

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Mission Central: New Opportunites for Local Mission The Mission Committee will offer several opportunities to visit Mission Central in Mechanicsburg over the next year. We will take a tour of the facility to see all that is offered to those in need. Then we will possibly volunteer our services for 1 – 1 ½ hours that same day.

This is another local mission opportunity for all ages.

More information to follow.

Step Up and Give This Lent, don't simply give something up — STEP UP AND GIVE! Each day, nearly 11% of Pennsylvania's citizens worry about how they will get their next meal. Hunger is a problem in communities across the state. But hunger is a problem that can be solved — and each of us can play a role in ensuring our fellow Pennsylvanians enjoy the bounty of our agriculture industry. The Mission Committee is hosting a Pine Street food drive to help stock the shelves of the Ecumenical Food Pantry. You are encouraged to bring nonperishable items throughout the Lenten season. Place them on and around the mission table and food barrel in the Gathering Place. A list of needed and acceptable items is on the mission table — feel free to take a list home with you as a reminder when you shop. Your donation will help support our community.

Ecumenical Food Pantry averages July 2010 – present: • Family requests – 699 / month • People served – 2,375 / month • Days open – 20 /month Mon., Tues., Thurs., Fri. 9:30 am – 12 noon and 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Wed. 9:30 am – 11:30 am and 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Sundays and holidays – Closed

Ecumenical Food Pantry is located at Messiah Lutheran Church, 6th and Forster Streets, Harrisburg.

OGHS Collection on Palm Sunday One Great Hour of Sharing began more than sixty years ago in response to the devastation of World War II. A Saturday evening nationwide broadcast asked Americans to give generously the next morning in their churches. More than 75,000 churches responded — churches of many denominations. Now each denomination decides how their contributions will be dispersed. PC(USA) divides our contributions into three programs: Self-Development of People (32%), Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (32%), and the Presbyterian Hunger Program (36%). Four percent of the Presbyterian Hunger Program money is used for its work on homelessness and affordable housing. None of the One Great Hour of Sharing offering stays at Pine Street Church — it all goes to help those who have much less than any of us.

One Great Hour of Sharing continues to offer hope for those most hopeless.

It walks toward recovery and wholeness with those whose lives have been shattered by disaster. It stands with communities facing the slower crises of hunger, disease, unemployment, and environmental degradation that make them vulnerable even before disasters strike. In sharing resources with people in need around the world, we not only witness God’s love in action in their lives — we also feel it moving in our own lives.

PLEASE, actually read the bulletin inserts you will see during the Lenten season. These stories are about real people. People who none of us will probably ever meet. But they are God’s children, just like us.

By chance many of them were born into poverty, into countries where there are no policies or infrastructure in place to provide for them. And they need us to reach out to them.

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8:30 AM Worship - Sanctuary 9:30 AM Children's Choir Practice (Pre-K5 Grade) - Rm. 108 9:40 AM Church School - All Ages 11:00 AM Worship –Sanctuary 4:00 PM Youth Handbell Choir Bell Room 5:00 PM SYF – Fellowship Hall & Boyd

1:30 PM Stephen Ministry Supervision – Room 306

8:45 AM Staff Worship 9:15 AM Staff Meeting 7:00 PM DDB Advisory Board Mtg.Boyd

12:10 PM Lenten Noonhour Recital 12:35 PM Soup & Bread Lunch – Fellowship Hall 6:00 PM JYF - Boyd 6:00 PM KOALA 7:30 PM Adult Handbell Choir - Bell Room

6:30 PM Chamber Singers Rehearsal - Rm. 303 7:30 PM Chancel Choir Rehearsal - Rm. 303

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8:30 AM Worship - Sanctuary 9:30 AM Children's Choir Practice (Pre-K5 Grade) - Rm. 108 9:40 AM Bagels & Belief – Fellowship Hall 9:40 AM Church School - All Ages 11:00 AM Worship –Sanctuary 4:00 PM Youth Handbell Choir Bell Room 5:00 PM SYF – Fellowship Hall & Boyd

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7:30 PM MAPS Event – DDB Benefit Concert – Choir Quartet & Tom Clark-Jones

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8:30 AM Worship - Sanctuary 9:30 AM Children's Choir Practice (Pre-K5 Grade) - Rm. 108 9:40 AM Church School - All Ages 11:00 AM Worship –Sanctuary

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8:30 AM Worship - Sanctuary 9:30 AM Children's Choir Practice (Pre-K5 Grade) - Rm. 108 9:40 AM Church School - All Ages 11:00 AM Worship –Sanctuary 4:00 PM Youth Handbell Choir Bell Room 5:00 PM SYF – Fellowship Hall & Boyd

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Lectionary Readings for April Friday, April 1 Psalms 22, 148 Jeremiah 11:1–8, 14–17 John 8:33–47

Friday, April 8 Psalms 22, 148 Jeremiah 23:1–8 John 6:52–59

Saturday, April 2 Psalms 43, 149 Jeremiah 13:1–11 John 8:47–59

Saturday, April 9 Psalms 43, 149 Jeremiah 23:9–15 John 6:60–71

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Sunday, April 10

4th Sunday in Lent

Psalms 84, 150 Jeremiah 14:1–9 (10–16) 17–22 Mark 8:11–21 Monday, April 4 Psalms 119:73–80, 145 Jeremiah 16:(1–9) 10–21 John 6:1–15 Tuesday, April 5 Psalms 34, 146 Jeremiah 17:19–27 John 6:16–27 Wednesday, April 6 Psalms 5, 147:1–11 Jeremiah 18:1–11 John 6:27–40 Thursday, April 7 Psalms 27, 147:12–20 Jeremiah 22:13–23 John 6:41–51

5th Sunday in Lent

Psalms 84, 150 Jeremiah 23:16–32 Mark 8:31—9:1

Monday, April 11 Psalms 119:73–80, 145 Jeremiah 24:1–10 John 9:1–17 Tuesday, April 12 Psalms 34, 146 Jeremiah 25:8–17 John 9:18–41 Wednesday, April 13 Psalms 5, 147:1–11 Jeremiah 25:30–38 John 10:1–18 Thursday, April 14 Psalms 27, 147:12–20 Jeremiah 26:1–16 (17–24) John 10:19–42

Friday, April 15 Psalms 22, 148 Jeremiah 29:1 (2–3) 4–14 John 11:1–27 or John 12:1–10 Saturday, April 16 Psalms 43, 149 Jeremiah 31:27–34 John 11:28–44 or John 12:37–50 Sunday, April 17

Passion / Palm Sunday

Psalms 84, 150 Zechariah 9:9–12 Matthew 21:12–17

Monday, April 18 Psalms 119:73–80, 145 Jeremiah 11:18–20, 12:1–16 (17) John 12:9–19 Tuesday, April 19 Psalms 34, 146 Jeremiah 15:10–21 John 12:20–26 Wednesday, April 20 Psalms 5, 147:1–11 Jeremiah 17:5–10, 14–17 (18) John 12:27–36

Thursday, April 21 Maundy Thursday

Psalms 27, 147:12–20 Jeremiah 20:7–11 (12–13), 14–18 John 17:1–11 (12–26) Friday, April 22 Good Friday

Psalms 22, 148 Genesis 22:1–14 John 13:36–38 or John 19:38–42

Saturday, April 23 Psalms 43, 149 Job 19:21–27a Romans 8:1–11 Sunday, April 24

Easter / Resurrection of the Lord

Psalms 93, 150 Exodous12:1–14 John 1:1–18

Monday, April 25 Psalms 97, 145 Jonah 2:1–10 John 14:1–14 Tuesday, April 26 Psalms 98, 146 Isaiah 30:18–26 John 14:15–31

Wednesday, April 27 Psalms 99, 147:1–11 Micah 7:7–15 John 15:1–11 Thursday, April 28 Psalms 47, 147:12–20 Ezekiel 37:1–14 John 15:12–27 Friday, April 29 Psalms 96, 148 Daniel 12:1–4, 13 John 16:1–15 Saturday, April 30 Psalms 92, 149 Isaiah 25:1–9 John 16:16–33