Please note – The YouTube recording will be updated at approximately noon following the in-person service.
Welcome to our Sunday Morning Online Worship at the Congregational Church of Amherst, UCC!
No matter WHO you are, or WHERE you are on life’s journey, YOU are welcome here!
April 2, 2026 Maundy Thursday 7:00 p.m.
PARTICIPANTS IN THIS SERVICE:
Rev. Maureen R. Frescott, Senior Pastor
Rev. Charlotte E. Y. Bell, Associate Pastor
Sara Phelps, Director of Music
Michael Havay, Organist/Accompanist
Senior Youth Group Readers
Kathleen Bouchard, Deacon in Charge
Tenebrae Readers: Kathleen Bouchard, Sally Hooper, Roger Hooper, Sue Ruggiero, John Swanson, Anita Swanson, Doug Topliffe, Liz MacMillan
Doug Topliffe, Videographer
MUSIC:
Prelude – Picardy (Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence) – Henry Coleman
Anthem – Lamb of God, What Wondrous Love, (Based on Pavanne by Gabriel Faure,
arranged by Allan Robert Petker), Chancel Choir
Communion Organ Meditation: Lenten Meditation – Gerald Peterson
Offertory – When He Cometh, Larry Shackley
Tenebrae Organ Meditations:
– Cantabile Sacra 51 (“He was despised and rejected of men”), Paul F. Page
– Good Friday Soliloquy, Rex Koury
– The Last Hours, Rex Koury
Tenebrae Solo: Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-731944.
HYMNS:
#94 – An Upper Room Did Our Lord Prepare
#85 – What Wondrous Love Is This
The first and third hymns are from Hymns, Psalms, & Spiritual Songs, ©1990 Westminster/John Knox Press.
The second hymn is from Chalice Hymnal, ©1995 Chalice Press.
Donations Appreciated!
You can donate online by using the button below or make checks payable to the Congregational Church of Amherst and mail to the church office at 11 Church St. Amherst NH 03031.
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