Mount Zion announces Lenten Revival
Mount Zion Baptist Church announces its Lenten Revival schedule for 2015. The schedule includes a series of special devotions and worship services at Mount Zion leading up to Easter. Lent is a season of the year where Christians focus on simple living, prayer, and fasting in order to grow closer to God.
It’s the forty days before Easter, excluding Sundays.
Pastors and congregations from eight area churches will be co-celebrants with Mount Zion in its Lenten observance this year. A joint worship experience at First Baptist Church on Highland Avenue will lead off the revival series on Ash Wednesday, February 18. The revival series move back to Mount Zion each Thursday night thereafter. All of the evening services begin at 7 pm.
The full lineup of pastors and churches coming to Mount Zion for its 2015 Lenten Revival is an inclusive list: February 26, Dr. James Linville and Piney Grove Baptist Church. March 5,
Rev. Frederick O. Bass Jr. and Mount Vernon Baptist Church of High Point. March 12, Rev. Dennis Bishop and First Waughtown Baptist Church.
March 19, Dr. Dennis Leach and Morning Star Baptist Church.
March 26, Rev. Frank Thomas and Mount Zion Baptist Church of High Point.
Locally, Mount Zion’s Lenten Revival culminates with two high worship experiences.
On Maundy Thursday, April 2, Dr. Paul Lowe and his congregation from Shiloh Baptist Church will worship at Mount Zion.
The crowning experience in this annual series will be Sunrise Service on April 5. Rev. James Cook and the St. Stephen Missionary B
aptist Church Family will join Mount Zion at this time for worship and a fellowship breakfast, with service beginning at 6:30 a.m.
Various Mount Zion ministries will assume leadership roles in the revival format.
A special devotional book written by host pastor,
Dr. Serenus T. Churn Sr. will be given to each person attending the Lenten Revival on Thursday nights.
All of the Lenten Revival services are open to the public.
