HOLY WEEK SERVICES

Maundy Thursday

Centenary United Methodist Church will host a worship and drama service at 7 p.m. on "Women of Courage." The service will look at the role of women in Jesus' life. It includes communion.

A community wide service will be held at First Presbyterian Church Thursday at 7 p.m. Several soloists and members of the church choir will present "Seven Last Words of Christ." The Rev. Alan Oakley will serve communion.

Christ Presbyterian Church will have a "Service of Shadows" at 7 p.m. at the Education Center in St. Francis Medical Center.

Hobbs United Methodist Chapel will have a service at 7 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church in Jackson will hold a service with communion at 7 p.m.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Chapel will hold a Passover Seder service at 7 p.m.

Christ Episcopal Church will hold a holy Eucharist service at 7 p.m.

Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Cairo, Ill., will hold Mass at 6 p.m.

Good Friday

The Jackson Ministerial Alliance will host a community worship service at 12:10 p.m. at New McKendree United Methodist Church. The Rev. Jim Lyon will speak.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Chapel will hold a service at 7 p.m.

Christ Episcopal Church will hold a service at 7 p.m.

Evangelical Church of Christ, three miles west of Fruitland, will hold a service at 7 p.m.

Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Cairo, Ill., will hold a one-hour service at noon.

Holy Saturday

Christ Episcopal Church will hold the great vigil of Easter at 7 p.m.

Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Cairo, Ill., will hold a vigil Saturday. It includes the service of lights, service of lessons, a renewal of baptism vows and communion.

Easter

Fairview General Baptist Church near Advance will hold a sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. Breakfast will be served after the service.

Church of Jesus Christ in Jackson will have a 10 a.m. service at Main Street Fitness Community Room.

Hobbs United Methodist Chapel will have a sunrise service at 6 a.m. with a continental breakfast following. Worship services also will be at 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. An Easter egg hunt begins at 7:30 a.m.

Bald Knob Cross near Alto Pass, Ill., will hold its 63rd annual sunrise service beginning at 6:30 a.m. The Rev. Larry Johnson will speak. A breakfast will be served beginning at 4 a.m. For information, call (618) 893-2344 or (618) 893-2170.

First Presbyterian Church in Jackson will hold a sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. at Bent Creek Clubhouse. A Sunday School program will be performed at 9 a.m. in the church fellowship hall. An Easter celebration service will be at 10 a.m.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Chapel will have a 6:30 a.m. sunrise service with a breakfast at 7:30 a.m. A Sunday school Easter celebration begins at 8:45 a.m. and at 10 a.m. is a festival service. Special music by the choir and handbells will be performed during both services.

Christ Episcopal Church will hold a service at 10:15 a.m., with holy Eucharist.

St. James United Church of Christ, on County Road 366 near Tilsit, will have a sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. A pancake and sausage breakfast will follow the service.

Dr. Robert C. Reynolds will lead worship at First Presbyterian Church at 10:45 a.m. Reynolds is executive presbyter of the Giddings-Lovejoy Presbytery in St. Louis. The church choir will perform Beethoven's "Hallelujah" with Claire Syler as guest soloist.

Perkins Baptist church will have an outdoor sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. near three wooden crosses on the church grounds. A children's egg hunt will be held at 9:30 a.m. and then a worship service at 10:30 a.m.

Evangelical Church of Christ will have a sunrise service at 7 a.m. A breakfast will be held immediately afterward. Sunday school will be at 9:15 and a worship service at 10:35 a.m.

Westminster Presbyterian Church will have an informal sunrise service at 7:30 a.m.. It begins in the fellowship hall but concludes outdoors. A light breakfast will be served afterward. The traditional worship service begins at 10:45 a.m. with a congregational anthem, "Sound the Trumpets."

The churches of Delta will sponsor a community sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. in the Delta Community Center. A breakfast will be served after the service.

Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Cairo, Ill., will hold a resurrection Mass at noon, with the Rev. Arnold Hoffman.

Hanover Lutheran Church will have a sunrise service at 6:30 a.m., in the church parking lot, weather permitting. A breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m. A 10 a.m. festival worship service is planned also and includes the dedication of a processional cross.