Holy Week Services This Sunday is Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week. We will have shared Holy Week services with Grace UMC and New Church UMC.

         
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Holy Week Services

This Sunday is Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week. We will have shared Holy Week services with Grace UMC and New Church UMC.

* Inman Park UMC will host a Maundy Thursday worship service with communion on April 13 at 7p.
* New Church UMC (1561 McLendon Ave NE) will have prayer stations set up in their sanctuary during the day on Good Friday, April 14 from 11am - 1pm.
* Grace UMC will be hosting an Easter Sunrise service on the Beltline at 7a on April 16. All are welcome, including our four-legged family members. Click here for location and more info.

Easter Celebrations will begin at IPUMC at 9:30a and will include kid's crafts, games and egg hunting! Easter worship will be at 11a in the sanctuary.

What is Holy Week?

Holy Week is the week preceding Easter. It is the last week of the season of Lent. In Holy Week, we follow the last days of Jesus’ life, from his entry into Jerusalem to his crucifixion to the days before his resurrection. Click here for more info and ways you can observe Holy Week.

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Welcome New Members!

Last Sunday, April 2, we had five young adults join the IPUMC family! We're excited to officially welcome Kyungho & Shelby Rhee, Tom Dobberke, Melanie Wooten and Marion Rice to CONNECT, GROW and SERVE with us!

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SERVE: We need Easter Eggs! Due this Sunday

We're collecting 500 prefilled eggs for Easter Sunday. Please drop them off in the "Egg Drop" buckets at church by this Sunday, April 9. We're also accepting candy, stickers, and tiny toys to fill eggs. Please avoid candy with nuts.

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SERVE: Festival Sign Up!

It's time to sign up to SERVE for Festival! This is a great opportunity for fellowship and to SERVE in our community. We need your help to make this a success!

Volunteer positions include kitchen prep, golf cart breakfast delivery, and food service under the tent. Partial shift volunteers may be needed as well, so make a note in your sign-up if you'd like to help but can only do a partial shift. Get to know your church family in a whole new way! Click here to sign up!

The church will also be on the Festival Tour of Homes. If you would like to sign up to SERVE as a "sitter" for the church on the Tour, please click here for the main Festival volunteer page and scroll down til you see Inman Park Church.

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New Adult GROW Group

Britney Toner, our Intern, is leading a new Adult GROW Group Sunday mornings at 9:45a in the Library. This six week Adult GROW experience entitled “Creative Writing as a Spiritual Practice” will have a weekly focus on a biblical story, time of discussion, writing and prayer. Come discover how to creatively engage with the biblical story and let it transform your life.

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SERVE: Feed the Farnsworth Family!

Our IPUMC family has grown again! Lisa, Andrew and Lorelei Farnsworth welcomed baby Alex on March 10…and we want to nourish them! We use a great online tool, www.TakeThemAMeal.com. You can click here or just go the www.takethemameal.com, enter the last name Farnsworth, and the password is nourish. You’ll see days available as well as a bit of detail about preferences. Meals start this Saturday, April 1. You’ll see all these details on the site as well. Take Them a Meal also includes lots of meal/menu suggestions, recipes, as well as meals you can purchase and have sent.

If you have any questions, call Kris Dwyer at 678-488-6501. Let’s get cooking!

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CONNECT: Join us at the Wild Goose Festival!

We're excited to announce that Kristen Vincent will be leading a workshop and having a booth at this year's Wild Goose Festival! If you've never heard of it, to put it briefly it’s a 4-day Spirit, Justice, Music and Arts Festival. But it’s so much more than that too!

Come hang out with us and hear amazing speakers including Nadia Bolz-Weber, William P. Young (author of The Shack), Diana Butler Bass, and many others, including a number of Upper Room authors. There's also music, Beer & Hymns, food trucks, camping, and all manner of zaniness. It always draws some of the best contemporary Christian speakers and musicians. Seriously, not to be missed!

Kristen will be offering a workshop on her new book, Beads of Healing. She'll also have a booth where she'll be selling prayer beads, holding crosses, Deeply Loved merchandise, and much more!

The Festival is July 13-16 in Hot Springs, NC, and you can camp. glamp or do Airbnb. Click here for more info!

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We're excited about our 2nd Annual Merry Artists Market this November! If you would like to help out with the planning the market or volunteering at the event, please contact Laura Tanguturi (laura_024@hotmail.com). Tell your artist friends and save the date!

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Beads of Healing is Here!

If you would like a copy of Kristen Vincent's newest book, Beads of Healing, they are available for purchase in the church office. Proceeds from books sold here at the church will go to IPUMC. The books are $14 each (the church would make $5.60 on each copy sold).

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Ecumenical Prayer Cycle

As a way to remember our connection with Christians around the globe, we will start using a great prayer tool: the Ecumenical Prayer Cycle. Each week of the year a number of countries are highlighted to lift up in prayer. There are also prayers written by Christians in those countries that you can use. By following the cycle throughout the year, you would pray your way around the globe. We will start listing the different countries each week in our prayer list.

For the week of April 9 pray for: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania

To find out more and to find links to the prayers from countries around the world click here.

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Click here to see IPUMC's Weekly Kid's Newsletter!

Click here to see IPUMC's Weekly Youth Newsletter!

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Happy Birthday!

We have one birthday this week:

Patrick Knebusch - April 6

Happy Birthday!

If your name is not listed but you would like to be included on the birthday list, please email the church office by replying to this email.

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Max Vincent, Minister
Cecelia Reilly, Coordinator of Children & Youth Ministries
Lisa Farnsworth, Music Coordinator
Sarah Adair, Office Manager
David Myles, Maintenance Tech
Britney Toner, Ministry Intern
404.522.9322

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