Central Christian Church

Music for Good Friday, Noon at Central Christian Church
A hint of jazz, classical, and Christian contemporary including an original piece, a few spirituals, and arrangements of traditional hymns. Muzetta Swann Miller and Daria Guthrie will present piano music from noon to 1:00 pm in the sanctuary. This is a wonderful opportunity to “be still” during Holy Week. Please join us! All are welcome. Please wear a mask.
Friday, April 2
Noon – 1:00 pm
Central Christian Church
301 Fifth Avenue West (corner of Oak Street)
Springfield, TN

Join us for an hour of contemplative music for Good Friday. Muzetta Miller and Daria Guthrie will be presenting piano music from noon to 1:00 pm at Central Christian Church. It’s an opportunity to be still and contemplate the meaning of Holy Week and all that led up to Easter. Central Christian is located at 301 Fifth Avenue West in Springfield, TN (corner of Oak Street). All are welcome.
Friday, April 2
Noon – 1:00 pm
Central Christian Church
301 Fifth Avenue West
Springfield, TN

A Prayer for a School Year Like No Other:

Holy One

We have grown accustomed to a year with a certain rhythm.

Summer comes, summer ends. New Shoes, New Clothes, New School Supplies

New School Year.

But today, on this first day of school, everything is different.

For months, we have been searching for the right rhythm, the right rhyme, and nothing has seemed to work.

We’ve distanced, sheltered, masked, prayed, cried, prayed some more, and cried through our prayers.

We’ve said goodbye to some, and been unable to say goodbye to others.

We’ve yelled happy birthday across public parks, honked our horns to celebrate retirements, turned every restaurant into a drive-in,

We’ve binged sitcoms on Netflix, finished every puzzle in the house, dusted off unread books and read them all.

And we’ve worried.

About our parents. About our kids.

About our teachers. About our communities.

About each other.

In the midst of uncertainty, help us find the rhythms that keep us strong:

Of Hope and Heart,

Love and Wisdom,

Community and care.

Help us make impossible decisions

and inspire the impossible dreams

we want to come true for all of our students.

We call out to you in our time of confusion,

Gracious God,

be our guide, our hope, our light.

This we pray, in the name of the one who came as a child and became a teacher to us all, the one we call the Christ: Amen.

--Rev. Brandon Gilvin
First Christian Church, Chattanooga

Matthew 9:35 - 10:23
35Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every disease and every sickness. 36When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; 38therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

10Then Jesus summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to cure every disease and every sickness. 2These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; 3Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 4Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, the one who betrayed him.

5These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, 6but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7As you go, proclaim the good news, ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ 8Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. You received without payment; give without payment. 9Take no gold, or silver, or copper in your belts, 10no bag for your journey, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff; for laborers deserve their food. 11Whatever town or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy, and stay there until you leave. 12As you enter the house, greet it. 13If the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. 14If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet as you leave that house or town. 15Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of S***m and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

16“See, I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. 17Beware of them, for they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues; 18and you will be dragged before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them and the Gentiles. 19When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say; for what you are to say will be given to you at that time; 20for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you. 21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death; 22and you will be hated by all because of my name. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. 23When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next; for truly I tell you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.