Resurrection Sunday
Holy Week and Easter Schedule – 2026
Maundy Thursday and Good Friday Worship
Spring Fling & Easter Egg Hunt
Palm Sunday Worship
Children & Family Easter Celebration
Children & Family Celebration – Saturday, April 4 – 11am – 1pm – All families with children are invited for a time of fun, learning, games and an egg hunt. Please RSVP on the yellow Connect Card or contact the church office for more information. We will have food trucks – hot dogs & ice …
Easter Preparations Underway
Easter Preparations will soon be underway!! And Many hands make light work! You are invited to help on Saturday, March 21 from 8:00am to Noon as we continue to make our grounds and our Prayer Garden & Columbarium area beautiful. We know we see a lot of visitors during Holy Week and Easter and we …
Kids and Koinonia Family Ministry Dinner
Kids and Koinonia Family Ministry Dinner –– Saturday, March 14 – Koinonia is the ancient Biblical Greek word for fellowship. All families with children Pre-K through Grade Six are invited to join us for food, fellowship and a conversation about faith. From 5:30 – 7:30pm. The adults will enjoy a lovely dinner in the Fellowship …
MidWeek Worship – February 25th
Come Dine With Us – Southern Comforts
Youth Life Updates
Come Dine with Us– March 7. 3 pm -9 pm. This is a huge fundraiser for the youth group. Please plan on participating. Parents, we will need your help too! Our theme this year is Southern Comforts-Taste of Home! We will have two seatings: one at 5 pm and another at 7 pm. We usually serve 100 people …
Why Lent – A Reflection
Come Dine With Us – Southern Comforts
Lenten 5-5-5 Service Project
This year we will support our local community by items to support Jacksonville Family Promise. This organization helps families facing or experiencing homelessness. We have a goal to collect 500 items and raise $500 during the 5 weeks of Lent. Please use the link below for the list of items most needed with the list of items most needed by these organization. There …
Why Lent?
Midweek Lenten Worship Services Wednesdays at Noon – Live-streamed Wednesdays at 6:30pm Each Wednesday through March 25th During Lent, through March 25 we offer Lenten Worship at Noon and at 6:30 with a Fellowship Meal of at 5:30pm. Our focus of reflection this year is answering the question of “Why Lent?”, why do we observe the faith …
Ash Wednesday Worship
NALC Lent Devotional
Join us in reflection this Lent & Easter season “For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus …
Ash Wednesday Worship
Families with Children – Lenten Educational Resources
Calling all parents and grandparents – please stop by the table in the Gathering Area this weekend to speak with Sherrie Prendergast who is our Children’s Ministry Coordinator. She has ordered some wonderful materials to share with your children during the season of Lent. This is not always an easy topic to explain to children …
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Shrove Tuesday
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday – February 18 – and lasts the forty days (not counting Sundays) until Easter. It has traditionally been a solemn time of fasting, meditation and sacrifice. To use up supplies, that would otherwise go bad during these 40 days, a Feast was created and celebrated the day before Ash Wednesday – Some …
Ash Wednesday Worship
Lent is Drawing Near – Join us for Ash Wednesday Worship – We offer traditional Ash Wednesday worship with the imposition of ashes for those who desire. This solemn service begins our season of Lent – forty days of reflection, prayer, repentance, service and meditation of God’s gifts. On February 18th we will hold two …
Calling All Men – Shrove Tuesday
The Men’s Bible Study group is hosting our Shrove Sunday Pancake Breakfasts on Sunday, February 15 after each of the worship services. The men will be doing all of the prep, cooking, serving and clean-up!! All men, even if you don’t attend the Saturday Bible Study group, are invited to roll up their sleeves and …
Easter Worship – April 20th
Easter Sunday Kids Schedule
Easter Sunday Worship
Good Friday – Worship 2025
Good Friday
Good Friday – this holy day recalls the last hours of Jesus’ life as the suffering servant is nailed to the cross, fulfilling his mission as the sacrifical Lamb of God. The sinless One takes on humanity’s sin as he is betrayed, arrested and sentenced to death, even as Pontius Pilate finds no fault in him. We …
Maundy Thursday – Worship 2025
Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday – provides us the opportunity to recall Jesus’ last supper with his closest friends, during which he institutes what we call The Last Supper (the sacrament of Holy Communion). As a sign of his servant love, Jesus washes his disciples’ feet and gives them a new commandment, that they should love one another as he has loved …
Maundy Thursday and Good Friday
PLEASE JOIN US FOR WORSHIP Maundy Thursday, April 17 Join us for a traditional Maundy Thursday worship service with Holy Communion. The services will include a symbolic foot washing and concludes with the stripping of the altar. Services at Noon and 6:30pm. The Noon service is live-streamed Good Friday, April 18 Join us as we reflect …
Holy Week Worship Schedule
MidWeek Lenten Worship – April 9th
Resurrection Sunday
Palm Sunday
Easter Candy
Candy Collection – We are collecting bags of individually wrapped candy for the children’s Easter party on Easter Sunday. Bring in your candy donations by Friday, April 18th and place in the bin provided in the gathering area.
Palm Sunday Worship
Mid-Week Lenten Service – March 26th
Mid-Week Lenten Service – March 19th
What Is Lent
Lenten MidWeek Service – March 12th
The Lenten season and is a time of personal reflection, repentance, and renewal. We gather each Wednesday at Noon and at 6:30pm for worship. We pray this Lenten season is a time of reflection and growth in faith. Lenten 5-5-5 Service Project – This year we will support our local community by collecting and delivering items that …
Lenten Discipline Ideas 2025
Lent is a season in the church in which we especially focus on examining our hearts, confessing our sin, and reflecting on the significance of Christ’s death on the cross. Lenten disciplines are a tool in turning our hearts and lives to Christ. Below are some ideas for you, or you may think of some …
Palm Sunday
Mark Your Calendars for Palm Sunday – April 13 – It is our practice to greet the community on Palm Sunday by waving palm fronds on the sidewalk before the services. We even do this before the 5:30 service on Saturday, April 12! We hope to line the entire length of the property with volunteers, and we’ll have a few …
Lenten 5-5-5 Service Project
This year we will support our local community by collecting and delivering items that will be of help to the homeless. We will be helping Beaches Mission House in Jacksonville Beach and St Francis House in St. Augustine. We have a goal to collect 500 items and raise $500 during the 5 weeks of Lent. Please use the link below for the list …
Ash Wednesday Worship
You are dust, and to dust you shall return (Genesis 3:19) Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the lenten season and is a time fo personal reflection and repentance. As a symbol of repentance and admission of our frailty, the imposition of ashes will be offered for those who desire to receive them. We invite …
Lent 2025
Lent is Observed for the Forty Days – begining Ash Wednesday – until Easter – excluding Sundays. As we anticipate the season of Lent, you are invited to make time each week to join us in worship and take time to reflect on the gift of God’s son. We begin on Ash Wednesday, March 5, …
Mid-Week Lenten Worship
Ash Wednesday and Lenten Worship Schedule
As we anticipate the season of Lent, you are invited to make time each week to join us in worship and take time to reflect on the gift of God’s son. We begin on Ash Wednesday, March 5, with worship at Noon and 6:30pm, offering the imposition of ashes at both services. Then, beginning on Wednesday, March …
Shrove Tuesday
We will celebrate Shrove Tuesday…on a Sunday! Whether you call Shrove Tuesday “Mardi Gras” (France), “Dia de la Tortilla” (Spain), “Pancake Day” (England) or “Fettisdagen” (Sweden), please join us on Sunday, March 2 after the 8:30am or the 10:30am services for a Pancake Feast. This is an annual fundraiser for our Youth Life group as they seek …
Ash Wednesday Worship
Women’s Retreat 2025
Lenten 5 – 5 – 5 Project Update
Thank you for your support and involvement with our Lenten 5-5-5 congregational outreach project. We had a goal of receiving 500 items for NALC Disaster Relief Kits and Hygiene kits and collecting $500, all in 5 weeks’ time. We give thanks to God for the love and care you have extended and rejoice at His work through …
Resurrection Day Worship – March 31st
Good Friday Worship – March 29th
Easter Worship
Easter Saturday, March 30 5:30pm – Easter Worship with Holy Communion Easter Sunday, March 31 6:30am – “Sunrise” Easter Worship with Holy Communion 8:30am – Easter Worship with Holy Communion 10:30am – Easter Worship with Holy Communion (Live-Streamed) Please join us for a time of fellowship with coffee and snacks after Worship. It is our mission to spread the Gospel by …
Worship – Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday and Good Friday Worship
Maundy Thursday, March 28 Join us for a traditional Maundy Thursday worship service with Holy Communion. The services will include a symbolic foot washing and will conclude with the stripping of the altar. Services are at Noon and 6:30pm. The Noon service is live-streamed. Good Friday, March 29 Join us as we reflect upon the death …
Midweek Worship – March 13th
Please join us each Wednesday during the Lenten Season as we gather for Lenten Worship at Noon and 6:30pm on 3/6, 3/13 and 3/20. The Noon Service will be live-streamed and the bulletins and links are below. A soup and salad dinner is provided from 5:30 to 6:15pm. Suggested donation is $5. Please kindly RSVP by replying …
Holy Week Worship
Children’s Easter Festivities
Children’s Easter Festivities will be held on Easter Sunday, March 31 from 9:45-10:15 AM. An Easter Egg Hunt will be held for children, nursery-age through sixth grade. All families and their extended families are welcome to participate. Families will gather in the courtyard near the playground by 9:45. A photo station will also be available …
Midweek Lenten Worship – March 6th
Please join us each Wednesday during the Lenten Season as we gather for Lenten Worship at Noon and 6:30pm on 3/6, 3/13 and 3/20. The Noon Service will be live-streamed and the bulletins and links are below. A soup and salad dinner is provided from 5:30 to 6:15pm. Suggested donation is $5. Please kindly RSVP by replying …
Come And Dine With Us
Our annual Come Dine with Us dinner is a much-loved event with great food, great service and benefitting a great cause – supporting our Youth Life group and their summer camp programs. Confirmation Camp provides time for daily study, relationship building and personal growth. Adventure Camp is all about fun – developing self-confidence, team building skills and accomplishment! On Saturday, March 9th we …
Midweek Lenten Service – February 28th
Lenten Soup and Salad Dinners
You are invited to join us each Wednesday during Lent as we gather for a time of fellowship over a shared meal. Each week we offer two soups and a salad, a representation of a humble meal to help us reflect on our abundant lives and the blessings of the Lord. We will serve continuously …
Lenten 5 – 5 – 5 Service Project
This year we are introducing something new for our Lenten Project! We will be supporting the NALC Disaster Relief Program. NALC – The North American Lutheran Church to which SOTW belongs, has a team of dedicated staff and volunteers who work throughout the year to be ready to assist in times of natural disaster. We are setting a goal …
Ash Wednesday Worship
You are dust, and to dust you shall return (Genesis 3:19) Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the lenten season and is a time fo personal reflection and repentance. As a symbol of repentance and admission of our frailty, the imposition of ashes will be offered for those who desire to receive them. We invite …
Lenten Updates
Lent is Observed for the Forty Days begining Ash Wednesday until Easter – excluding Sundays. Join us on a Lenten journey where we will reflect on the battles we face in life; powers & principalities, evil, darkness, the devil, and even attempts at identity theft as a child of God. We will delve into the scriptures to …
Lenten Midweek Worship
Pancake Breakfast
Lenten Meal Help
Soup Chefs & Salad Helpers Wanted – would you like to assist with our Lenten Soup & Salad Dinners? We would love to have your help! Each week during Lent we offer two soups and a salad, a representation of a humble meal to help us reflect on our abundant lives and the blessings of the Lord. …
Preparing For The Lenten Season
Ash Wednesday Worship
Easter Worship – Livestream Recordings
Easter Worship at Shepherd of the Woods
It is our mission to spread the Gospel by inviting others to worship and to a relationship with Jesus Christ. Please forward this message to family, friends and neighbors who might be seeking a community to share Easter worship. All are welcome! We look forward to seeing you! Saturday, April 8th – 5:30 PM (Indoor …
Easter Egg Hunt
Our Egg Hunt and Easter Party will be held on Saturday, April 8th, from 10 am to Noon for children ages 2 to 10. We will first gather for fun and games and the Egg Hunt will begin at 11 am. Please invite friends, neighbors, and extended family with young children. This is a great way to share our …
Good Friday Live Stream Recording
Maundy Thursday Livestream Recording
Holy Week Worship Updates
Maundy Thursday, April 6 Join us for a traditional Maundy Thursday worship service with Holy Communion. The services will include a symbolic foot washing and will conclude with the stripping of the altar. Services at Noon and 6:30 pm (Noon Service is Live Streamed.) Good Friday, April 7 Join us as we reflect upon the …
Worship – April 2nd
Holy Week at Shepherd of the Woods
Saturday, April 1st and Sunday, April 2nd: Palm Waving on the Sidewalk this Weekend – We invite you to join in the fun, waving palms before each of the services on Palm Sunday weekend. We will line the sidewalk in the front of the church property to wave palms and greet passers-by! This is something for all ages and …
Lenten Worship – March 29th
Celebrate Easter
Good Friday Worship
Maundy Thursday Worship
Palm Sunday Worship
Worship – March 26th
Mid-Week Lenten Worship – March 22nd
Worship – March 19th
Mid-Week Sermon – March 15th
Lenten 5-5-5 Quilting Service Project
We set a goal to cut 500 squares and raise $500 during the 5 weeks of Lent. Cutting Kits will be available in the Gathering Area until Easter if you would like to support the project. The squares will be used to make quilts for Lutheran World Relief humanitarian efforts. This is a great way to involve a friend, neighbor, kids, …
Worship – March 12th
Mid-Week Worship: March 8th
Worship – March 5th
MidWeek Worship – March 1st
Lent – Shepherd of the Woods Lutheran Church and School
Please join us each Wednesday during the Lenten Season for midweek worship. We gather for worship at Noon and 6:30 pm on 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, and 3/29 for Lenten Worship. The Noon Service will be live-streamed and the bulletins and links are below. A soup and salad dinner is provided at 5:30 pm (and served through …
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Worship – Ash Wednesday
Mid-Week Lenten Worship
Lenten Disciplines
Lent is a season in the church in which we especially focus on examining our hearts, confessing our sin, and reflecting on the significance of Christ’s death on the cross. Lenten disciplines are a tool in turning our hearts and lives to Christ. Below are some ideas for you, or you may think of some …
Ash Wednesday Worship
You are dust, and to dust you shall return (Genesis 3:19) Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season and is a time for personal reflection and repentance. As a symbol of repentance and admission of our frailty, the imposition of ashes will be offered for those who desire to receive them. Please join …
Ash Wednesday
