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​Maundy Thursday
​Service of Tenebrae   
​7:00 pm
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 Good Friday 

Church Open for Prayer and Meditation 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
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Come Worship with Us...   

Easter Sunday    11:00 am

Potluck Luncheon at 12:30 pm in Bodge Lounge​

All are Welcome!

Sundays at 11:00 a.m.
Worship Service and Church School
    Coffee Hour after Worship
in Bodge Lounge
All are Welcome! 

Celebrating over 100 Years since the formation of the  
  West Center Sunday School
 and the start of West Center Church as we know it today.

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Click here for  Easter's Worship Bulletin

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The Rev. Erv Graves, preaching.

Arnold Ostlund, our Music Director, will lead the choir.

After worship you are invited to stay for a potluck luncheon.

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​​Feed Your Spirit

Your spirit needs to be fed on a daily basis with devotionals, prayer, and even laughter.
Nourish your soul

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From Pastor Erv ~

AN EASTER MESSAGE 
(an adaptation)
            In the sermon on the mount, Christ told those gathered: “consider the lilies of the field, how they grow.  They toil not, neither do they spin; and yet, Solomon in all his glory was no arrayed like one of these. (matt. 6:28-29)  the lily has become a symbol of joy, comfort, and inspiration for Easter.  For many the beautiful trumpet-shaped white flowers symbolize virtue, purity and resurrection, innocence, hope and life, the very spiritual essence of Easter.
            Lilies have an interesting history going back prior to Jesus’ ministry.  Reflecting on our Christian tradition, folklore tells us that lilies played a significant part in the creation story.  It was said that when eve left the Garden of Eden she shed tears of repentance, which caused lilies to spring up.  Here the spiritual principle symbolizes repentance as the beginning of beauty.
            Early writers and artists associated the lily with the Virgin Mary, making it the emblem of the annunciation and her resurrection.  In paintings, the angel Gabriel is pictured extending a branch of pure white lilies to the Virgin Mary as he announces that she will be the mother of the Christ child.  Other artists portrayed pictures of saints carrying vases of white lilies to Mary and baby Jesus.  Legend tells us that three days after her burial the Virgin Mary’s tomb was empty except for bunches of white lilies.  Another tradition says that lilies were growing in the garden of Gethsemane after Christ’s agony, and that beautiful lilies grew from the very spots where drops of Christ’s sweat fell to the ground in his final hours of sorrow and pain.
            With its beauty purity and grace, the lily is therefore, a fitting symbol of the true meaning of Easter.  It also signals the arrival of a new spring bursting forth embodying joy, hope and a new life. In that vein, let us go forth with a new vigor, renewed hope, and re-awakened faith, revealing to all whose we are.

​Sharing the blessings,
Pastor Erv  
Contact us:
Email: westcenterucc@verizon.net     Phone: (914) 337-3829   Address: 101 Pondfield Road West, Bronxville NY 10708