Sign Up (for free!) to Keep Vigil with Jesus and 7 Storytellers For Holy Week
Why not invite a small group of friends to join us? The Holy Week series is free and anyone can sign up through this post or here.
April brings the tenth annual blog series for Holy Week and a Zoom conversation to meet this year’s guest storytellers and we’d love for you to join us.
You might be aware that each year during Holy Week I invite 7 friends to share a personal story of grief or lament on my blog (inspired, in part, by our church's unique Good Friday services).
2022 marks the tenth year I will be curating this blog series for Holy Week, centered around the "Seven Words of Christ from the Cross". Each year seven guests share personal reflections on how they've walked with Christ through challenges in life, within the context of Christ's own suffering on the cross. That’s 70 stories, soon to include this year’s guest storytellers, that have invited us to bring Christ's dying lament into our present, lived experiences of grief and loss.
The tradition of speaking to the Seven Words on Good Friday goes back centuries, but it is a unique tradition we've experienced in our current and former church to invite members of the congregation to speak on them. That unique experience is what I'm trying to extend, gently and with care, to the readers who've followed my blog for so many years. In order to add to that circle of care, this year I'm inviting storytellers from the series to a conversation I'm facilitating on Zoom where those who follow the blog can listen in and ask their own questions.
Meet the guest storytellers joining me as we keep company with Jesus this Holy Week
Michelle Van Loon
Lan-Vy Ngo
Arthur Going
Amy Willers
April Swiger
Sheli Sloterbeek
Each guest storyteller this year is an answer to prayer and I’m moved by the hospitality they offer us to listen with them to the lament of Jesus through the lens of their own stories.
On Thursday, April 7 at noon - 1:15 pm ET, simply show up on Zoom to receive:
time for guided silence and Scripture reading to prepare our hearts for Holy Week
an opportunity to hear from this year’s guest storytellers
a place to ask questions about the spiritual practice of lament and the liturgical practices for Holy Week
a quiet, safe space to prayerfully listen for and respond to God’s invitation to you this Holy Week.
Our conversation will include some moments of contemplative prayer and space for the Holy Spirit to minister to each one of us.
Sign up below to receive the Zoom link for April 7 and one story each day of Holy Week to your email inbox. Then share this post with your friends!
The series will be posted on my public blog, but the Zoom link and the daily emails will only go to those who sign up for them here.