[eee re Rens | Ei : | i : On Good Friday, April 21 at 11:00am the Congregations of Cherry Valley and South Bay United Churches will gather at South Bay Church for the annual Good Friday Service. This will be an opportunity to hear again the gospel stories of Jesus' last hours - and to sing some of the traditional hymns of The Passion. As noted elsewhere in this issue of The Mirror, many folk from Cherry Valley and South Bay will go from the service to the annual Walkathon To Combat Hunger - a co-operative effort with Picton and Bloomfield United Churches. At dawn on Easter Sunday morning Cherry Valley and South Bay congregations invite the community to join them for a Sunrise Service at Little Bluffs Conservation Area. Those who brave the cool temperatures and early morning hour to greet the dawn do so to begin the celebration of Jesus' resurrection. It was at dawn on the first Easter day, that several women came to the tomb (where Jesus body was placed on Good Friday) to find that the stone was rolled away and angels announced that Jesus was alive! Tm a Cherry Vall Bay United Church Holy Week & Faster I cy © South Following the Sunrise Service folks will return to South Bay Church for breakfast of coffee/tea, juice and muffins. At the regular worship hours (South Bay, 9:30; Cherry Valley, 11:00am) the congregations will gather to celebrate The Festival of The Resurrection. Easter hymns, special music and the reading of the Bible stories will be followed by Holy Communion. "Our congregations welcome anyone who would like to join us for these services.", says Rev. Phil Hobbs. "This is the most important day in our Christian calendar, as we celebrate God's action to defeat the forces of death. "Because of Easter Day, we have hope." HARD WORK AND ENJOYMENT GO INTO EASTER CONCERT On April 16, the mixed choir Command Per- formance will present a performance of the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, and other music for Easter at St. Mary Magdalene (Anglican) Go Church in Picton to raise funds for music for future productions. Preparing for this concert is some- thing like building an iceberg. What members of the audience will see on April 16 is a polished pro- duction by the choir under director Don Mowat and accompanist Angie King. What they won't see is the 90% of concerted effort that has gone into preparing for the Continued on page 20)