<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Dear Ellie,<div>Thank you so much. </div><div>I have co ordinated Easter Sunrise Services so similar to yours. Here we are cooling down with our weather, and yet the sunrise is the same, and connects us. </div><div>Peace is yours,</div><div>Isobel Bishop <br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 2 Apr 2020, at 7:09 am, Ellie Stock via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<div>As we move, in the Christian tradition, from Lent into Holy Week, which the whole world is now experiencing in the midst of the detachment, suffering and death caused by the coronavirus pandemic crisis, we have the benefit of also looking toward what we now experience as Easter, the possibility of new life and transformation which the early followers of Jesus could not have anticipated, following the crucifixion.</div>
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<div>These last weeks, like many of you, we have been worshipping at home via live-streaming services. For many years, I have coordinated the outdoor Easter Sunrise Service on the west bank of the January-Wabash Lake, sponsored by the Ferguson Ministries Alliance. This year the service will not be held. Wherever we have lived, the Easter Sunrise Service (when it has been held outdoors, as this one is) has always been my favorite, but this year, with everything else changing, so has the way we will do this service. The service has always been informal--no robes, microphones, hymnbooks--just gathered together (standing or sitting in portable chairs) in a sort of semi circle, facing the lake, the fountain, the sunrise, and enjoying the sights and sounds of spring's creation, including the flyover or swimming geese with their bellowing honks. The service was held there rain or shine or snow, cold or warm with umbrellas or hats and gloves or no coats at all. Always a joy-filled occasion. Coffee and donuts followed. Then folks went home or off to their various congregations, breakfasts and Easter egg hunts. </div>
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<div><b>Attached</b> is a copy of the liturgy for this year. Feel free to use it at home and share with others--best to be outside.</div>
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<div>As the words on the final blessing say:</div>
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