Easter Sunday – Breakout Rooms and a New Guided Meditation

 

Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!

Share this traditional Easter greeting with us Sunday, April 12 as we celebrate the Resurrected Christ via Zoom at 10:30 am.

In this time of precautionary social-distancing, we’ve been encouraged to find real community online with our fellow Vineyard One members as well as new friends and visitors. We’ve spent much time interceding for those affected by the covid-19 crisis: people who have caught the virus, frontline and essential workers, and the vulnerable of society who have become even more so in this time of illness and economic uncertainty.

This past Wednesday, on our weekly prayer night, we tried something new: Zoom’s breakout rooms. We used them to get into small groups for more intimate times of prayer and fellowship. They were a hit, and we’re going to use them again this Sunday for prayer and ministry time.

On Easter Sunday, we look forward to joining together again as a diverse family empowered by the Holy Spirit and by the promise of new life in Jesus. We hope you will join us! Use this link: https://zoom.us/j/9983878948

We also want to make this Easter guided meditation available to you. We hope that letting the Holy Spirit guide your imagination while you listen to John 20:1-18 will bring you hope, peace, and renewed faith for the season.

Carrie Myers

Spiritual Director, Vineyard One NYC

 

*Meditation written by Janine Rohrer and Carrie Myers @ravishedbylight. Voiceover and music by David Buchs @sleepwithmusic.com

 

 

Good Friday News

Today, as we commemorate the passion of Christ, we have a few offerings to help us mark the day.

First, here is a guided contemplative prayer created by spiritual director Janine Rohrer, musician and composer David Buchs, and me. This prayer invites you to walk with Jesus through his experience of suffering, loss, and death in light of your own suffering and losses during this past month when the covid-19 crisis has been raging in New York City and many other places in the nation and world. It invites you to breathe deeply of God’s presence and partake of his grace even in this dark season.

 

 

Second, we are having a Good Friday Movie Watch Party! Jude D’Souza is inviting all of us to join him at 6pm sharp to watch “Risen,” a movie about a Roman soldier who is determined to disprove the rumors of a risen Christ, but instead finds his skepticism challenged by the truth.

 

 

Steps to join the Live watch Party

Please click on the address below:

https://s.kast.live/g/7dj62thvwl7

You will need to download and install the Kast app on your viewing device (i.e. PC, IOS device or Android). The app is free and easy to install. You will be asked to create a free account which itself is also very simple. Once the account is created and you’re logged in, please click on the ‘Vineyard One Party’

We will begin the movie at 6pm sharp!

We hope you find rest and peace in your encounter with God through your prayer time. And then join us tonight for the movie!

May Christ dwell with you today-

Carrie

Pray With Us Tonight at 7pm

 

Dear friends,

We will meet again tonight via Zoom for what has become our regular weekly prayer night. We will intercede for our city and all those over the world affected by covid-19.

In these dark times in our city, our best weapon against fear and anxiety – in addition to social distancing! – is to come together as the body of Christ in prayer, under the covering and inspiration of the Holy Spirit. As we pray, the Holy Spirit will remind us who God is, who we are, and in whom our hope and trust lies – in the risen Christ. We will be empowered to love and care for ourselves and our neighbors.

Let’s all cry out together for the Lord’s healing, protection, and redemption.

Zoom link:  https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9983878948

Time: 7 pm

 

In Christ,

 

Carrie Myers

Spiritual Director, Vineyard One NYC