Worldwide Good Friday / Easter Communion Service
Letting you know the details on how you can participate
As I’m sure you know, this coming Friday is Good Friday and next Sunday is Easter.
Pastor Robert Morris and I have joined with leaders across America and around the world to organize a worldwide prayer movement called Unite714. The details of how you can be involved in this are on the website unite714.com.
We are also coordinating a worldwide Good Friday / Easter communion service. This will be done through each individual church and believer participating in their own way. Some churches will do this on Good Friday and others will incorporate it into their online Easter services. At Gateway Church, Pastor Robert is taping a communion service online that will be on our website this coming Friday so you can participate at any time you choose. The web address is gatewaypeople.com.
Pastor Robert will also be preaching this coming Easter weekend and that service will be aired first online on Good Friday at 4pm. After that it will be available on demand for the rest of the weekend and beyond.
This Palm Sunday weekend (April 4th & 5th) I preached a message at Gateway Church called “Overcoming Fear”. It is on our website and on YouTube if you would like to watch it. I believe it will bless you.
In regard to how you can participate in the online communion at home, the main thing you need to do is simply prepare the elements for you and those with you. Pastor Robert will lead you in taking them.
At church we use grape juice and a small unleavened wafer. But you can use anything at your disposal. For example, you may not have grape juice or unleavened bread. So, feel free to use regular bread, crackers or something like that.
Also, rather than grape juice, you can use any juice you would prefer. Some churches and believers use wine, but that is something that depends on your own personal convictions. The elements are symbolic of the body and blood of Jesus. That is what makes them sacred and special.
I hope you will join us for this special Good Friday / Easter communion service and for our Easter service as well. Remember, we are believing together for a Passover / Easter miracle to break the power of this coronavirus plague.
I can’t imagine anything more powerful than the worldwide Body of Christ coming together on Good Friday and Easter to celebrate the victory of Jesus death and resurrection through communion. This is a special opportunity for us to experience a true Passover and an Easter miracle such as the world hasn’t seen for two thousand years!
In case you missed it, here is the YouTube video of my Palm Sunday message this weekend at Gateway:
Pastor Jimmy, I just wanted to say thank you, thank you for encouraging us to celebrate True Passover together!! Our daughter attends TKU and is in the Messianic studies. So, this is something that our family started a few years back after attending many amazing Messianic Shabbats at Gateway, but now enjoying our home celebration this year on Zoom with another family. We are believing together for a Passover / Easter miracle to break the power of this coronavirus plague. Miracles happened on the night of April 8th evening during our Passover meal....we participated in a meal together, Kaddish blessing, and communion. You encouraged us to learn more about Passover and it was incredible. We went to our front door and anointed it with oil speaking these precious words over our families and others..... I wanted to share this with you and your readers. Our dear friend, Marcus wrote this blessing prayer. It was powerful.
Father, we believe that you are a God who loves to bless his people.
We believe that with your mighty hand and outstretched arm, you will provide all that we need. You will fill our storehouses and we will see you open wide the windows of heaven.
You will give life to the dreams you've planted in our hearts.
You will scatter our enemies and break any chains that hold our family down.
You will increase and bless our influence.
Your mark will be on our home, it will be on us, on our children.
It will be a light shining for others to see.
The peace of God will guard our home, our hearts and our minds.
Let your favor be on us, our home and on all we do.
Bless our family in the land that you're giving us.
Bless the work of our hands and all that we undertake.
We ask that you would go before us as we come in and as we go out.
We lay up these words in our hearts and in our souls.
As we sit in our home, as we lie down and as we rise.
We share them with our children and our children's children.
We speak them over the doorposts of our home.
We ask that you would give these words power. That they would be pleasing to you and find favor with you.
That you would let all of these blessings come upon us and overtake us.