Where to find Charlotte area Passover, Holy Week and Easter services
Charlotte synagogues and churches have adjusted their Passover, Holy Week and Easter services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For many congregations, worship will occur online, via Zoom and websites. Here is how some of the congregations plan to worship:
Temple Israel
Passover Evening Service, scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday can be viewed on Zoom at TempleIsraelNC.org. Shabbat Evening Services at 6:15 p.m Friday, and all other services over the eight days of Passover will likewise be shown on the synagogue’s website, via livestream or Zoom.
Temple Beth El
Temple Beth El will hold its Second Night Seder at 6 p.m. Thursday via Zoom. “We’ll provide Haggadah online,” temple leaders said on the temple’s website. “You can zoom or stream the Seder into your own home and celebrate Passover with your Temple Beth El community. No registration needed.”
Other services throughout the eight days of Passover will likewise be shown online.
Empowered Living Church
The church in Charlotte’s Steele Creek community will livestream its Easter Sunday service at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. at EmpoweredLiving.Church/live and Facebook.com/EmpoweredLivingChurch.
Myers Park Baptist
Two Good Friday services will be streamed live at noon and 7 p.m. The services will include virtual communion, where worshipers are encouraged to have bread and the cup (with wine or juice) at home to celebrate communion at home. Sunday service is both online and via Facebook at 10 a.m.
Calvary Church
An Easter Sunday service at 9:45 a.m. will be livestreamed via the church’s website here and via Calvary’s Facebook page here.
Good Shepherd Presbyterian Charlotte
The church on Rea Road will broadcast its pre-recorded Easter Sunday service at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Facebook.
The service will be available all week on the church YouTube channel and website, starting at 10 a.m. Sunday.
First Presbyterian Church Charlotte
Easter Sunday service at 11 a..m. will be available on the church’s website, as well as a 7:30 p.m. Good Friday service. Details here.
Forest Hill Church
Forest Hill’s seven campuses will jointly hold Easter Sunday services at 9:15 a.m., 11 a.m. and 8 p.m., via both the church’s YouTube channel and the church’s website.
Covenant Presbyterian
Livestreams of these services — Good Friday at noon and 7 p.m. and Easter Sunday at 9:30 and 11 a.m. — will be available via the church’s website here or Facebook Live here.
Matthews United Methodist
Two Easter Sunday services will be available online: contemporary at 9:30 a.m. and traditional at 11 a.m. They can be accessed on the church’s YouTube channel or via Facebook Live.
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Services will be available on Facebook Live at 6 p..m. Good Friday and 8 a.m. Easter Sunday.
Myers Park United Methodist
Online services will be available via Facebook Live or livestream on Good Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Easter Sunday morning at 8:45. 9:45 and 11.
Transformation Church
The church in Indian Land, S.C., will livestream services on Good Friday at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. and Easter Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. See other online options to access services here.
Charlotte Catholic Diocese
Bishop Peter Jugis on Sunday launched a series of six livestream worship services tracing the events of Easter. He is conducting the services in the empty St. Patrick Cathedral in Charlotte. The services are livestreamed for some 400,000 Catholics across Western North Carolina.
Remaining services also will air on the diocese’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/dioceseofcharlotte:
Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7 p.m. Thursday.
Good Friday, 3 p.m. Friday. People can also visit outside St. Patrick Cathedral – in small numbers and at socially appropriate distances – to see a special crucifix containing a relic of the True Cross that will be on display.
Easter Vigil, 8 p.m. Saturday. As part of this broadcast, at dusk, Jugis will bless the Easter fire and light the Paschal candle to usher in the Easter celebration.
Easter Sunday, 10 a.m.
Replays after each Mass also will be available on YouTube.
On Easter Sunday across the diocese, which covers the western half of the state, a number of priests will also livestream services from local parishes. People should check with their priest/parish.
Catholic Charities is still delivering services to the poor, and the diocese’s priests are doing drive-by confessions, visiting the sick and performing Last Rites — with proper precautions — and checking in with their most vulnerable parishioners by phone.
This story was originally published March 12, 2020 at 1:23 PM with the headline "Where to find Charlotte area Passover, Holy Week and Easter services."