Easter services planned for Town Ward churches
Town Ward churches are holding a variety of Easter Celebrations this week; all are welcome.
All Saints Anglican Church hosts a Maundy Thursday Parish Supper and service, in the Parish Hall, beginning at 6 p.m. this Thursday. Bishop Riscylla Shaw, Area Bishop of Trent Durham, will preside.
A Good Friday service takes place at 10:30 a.m. during which the choir, under the direction of Syd Birrell will sing Allegri’s Miserere, Sander’s Reproaches and Lotti’s Crucifixus. Easter Sunday Services take place at both 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. Pastor Jim Halmarson will be presiding over the Good Friday and Easter Sunday services. All Saints Anglican Church is located at 235 Rubidge St.
Emmanuel United Church East, located at 534 George St., hosts a Potluck Supper on Maundy Thursday. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m., followed by worship at 7 p.m. On Good Friday, the congregation of Emmanuel United Church will worship at 10 a.m. at Trinity United Church, 360 Reid St.
On Easter Sunday, a Sunrise Service is scheduled for 7 a.m. on Courthouse Hill, and an Easter Worship Service is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. at the church.
For more information, please phone 705-742-4162 or visit www.emmanuelunitedchurchpeterborough.ca.
St. James United Church, located at 221 Romaine St., worships at 10:30 a.m. on both Good Friday and Eater Monday. For more information, please phone 705-742-2222 or visit www.stjamesunitedchurch.ca.
St. John’s Anglican Church is hosting a Maundy Thursday Celebration at 7 p.m. and a service on Good Friday at 10 a.m. On Easter Sunday, a Traditional Celebration of the Eucharist is scheduled for both 8:15 and 10 a.m., with Open Circle Contemporary Worship at 10:05 a.m. St. John’s Anglican Church is located at 99 Brock St. For more info, call 705-745-7624 or visit www.stjohnspeterborough.ca.
Together We Eat
The Nourish Project presents Together We Eat, a free community dinner, on Wednesday at St. James United Church, 221 Romaine St. This event runs from 5 to 7:30 p.m. with dinner served at 5:30 p.m. To register for this event, please call 705-743-3526 or email events@nourishproject.ca
Three Minute Thesis
Trent University’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition takes place Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Market Hall, 140 Charlotte St. The competition challenges 20 Masters and Doctoral students to explain their complex and highly specialized research to a general audience in three minutes with only one PowerPoint slide.
The President’s First Prize is $500 and an opportunity to represent Trent at the Ontario 3MT finals. This is a free event, and all are welcome. For more info, visit www.trentu.ca/events.
Trent Film Society
A free screening of the movie Mysterious Skin (2004), directed by Gregg Araki, is presented by the Trent Film Society on Wednesday, 8 p.m., at Artspace, 378 Aylmer St. All are welcome. For more info, visit the Trent Film Society Facebook page.