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7pm Holy Friday
Home Events Rooted in Grace 7pm Holy Friday

7pm Holy Friday

  • April 18, 2025
  • 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
  • 5265 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819
  • Sanctuary
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Holy Friday

7pm Friday, April 18

We’ll gather both in-person in the Sanctuary and also be online at thetable.live + The Table’s Church Center App at 7pm on Holy Friday for a somber remembrance of the crucifixion of Jesus.

This will be an adult-centered gathering.

April 18, 2025

7pm at The Table (5265 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819) & online (thetable.live + The Table’s Church Center App)

ORDER OF WORSHIP for Holy Friday

  • Welcome
  • Now & at the Hour of Our Death
  • Luke 23.32-38
  • Were You There
  • Luke 23.39-43
  • Prayer
  • Does Your Heart Break
  • Luke 23.44-49
  • Serenity Prayer
  • Message: Resistance & Acceptance
  • Have You Forsaken Me

MINISTRY TEAM

  • Debbie Edgar, Director of Operations
  • Sarnit Prasad, Sunday Coordinator
  • Bailey Sagar, Sound Engineer
  • John Buggy-Agresti, Visuals & Livestream Technician
  • Cesca Wolos-Fonteno, Online Worship Curator
  • Jae Phoenix, Online Host

Music Team

  • Brenden Lowe, Music Director & Piano
  • Natalie Hagwood, Vocals & Cello
  • Hannah Jane Kile, Vocals & Guitar
  • Ben Kopf, Bass
  • Tim Stephenson, Drums
  • Omari Tau, Vocals

Liturgists 

  • 7pm Debbie Edgar, Bob Martinez, & Sarnit Prasad

Worship Art

  • Erik Castellanos, Artist in Residence
  • Colleen Cascio
  • Jan Martinez
  • Corey Strange

Co-Pastors

  • Linda Dew-Hiersoux, Co-Pastor
  • Matt Smith, Co-Pastor

 Easter Sunrise 6:30am in Rose Garden at McKinley Park (33rd Street & H Street)

Easter Worship Celebrations 9:30am + 11am at The Table (5265 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819)

9:30am online at thetable.live + also on The Table’s Church Center App

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5265 H Street Sacramento, CA 95819

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  • Worship online via thetable.live at 9:30am Sundays. Worship in-person 9:30am & 11:00am Sundays in the Sanctuary.

  • 916.452.5016

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"Messianic Secret"
FROM THE ARTIST:
“Messianic Secret”
Inspired by John 2:1-11
14″x18″ Acrylic on canvas

The Wedding at Cana is my favorite text because there is a lot of humor in it. There’s humor in a mother approaching her son and telling him to do something without ever actually telling him to do it. There’s his pouty resistance to his mother’s non-demand while she completely ignores him and paints him in a corner. There is humor in a raucous wedding reception where the people are so “lit” that the wine has run out. And, for me, it’s particularly humorous that there’s this huge, beautiful secret of which only a few people are aware.

Those people include Jesus’ mother and the select servants who help him pull off the miracle that inaugurates his ministry. Servants are normally meant to be inconspicuous, so I wanted to focus on the servant who goes to the chief steward with a cup full of what, as far as he’s concerned, is water.

If Jesus—whose ministry has not started, so there haven’t been any wonders associated with him yet—tells you to fill jars with water and draw from the jar to give to the chief steward, what is going through your mind at that moment? I invite the viewer to focus on this servant and all his curiosity and expectation, and think of a time when you were surprised by something God did. What actions preceded the miracle? Did it make sense? What did you know, and what was hidden from you? What “secrets” might God be keeping from you now as God works clandestinely on your behalf?

—Rev. T. Denise Anderson