The faithful also helped to ease the pain of people ensnared by a tragedy closer to home, the enduring homeless crisis and prayed for solutions.
Parishioners attend the 73rd Easter Sunrise Service at Green Hills Memorial Park, hosted by San Pedro’s Pastors Fellowship and the Alive worship band, in Rancho Palos Verdes on Sunday, April 17, 2022.
The Feast of the Resurrection is the oldest and most important Christian celebration. Christians believe Jesus, the long-awaited Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Scriptures, offered his life and his death for the forgiveness of sins. But God raised him up, showing his power over sin and death and revealing Jesus as his beloved Son. For many, Sunday’s new morn provided a symbolic rising up out of a two-year pandemic that has taken its toll in unfathomable ways.
Parishioners attend the 73rd Easter Sunrise Service at Green Hills Memorial Park, hosted by San Pedro’s Pastors Fellowship and the Alive worship band, in Rancho Palos Verdes on Sunday, April 17, 2022. Parishioners attend the 73rd Easter Sunrise Service at Green Hills Memorial Park, hosted by San Pedro’s Pastors Fellowship and the Alive worship band, in Rancho Palos Verdes on Sunday, April 17, 2022.
Parishioners attend the 73rd Easter Sunrise Service at Green Hills Memorial Park, hosted by San Pedro’s Pastors Fellowship and the Alive worship band, in Rancho Palos Verdes on Sunday, April 17, 2022. Parishioners attend the 73rd Easter Sunrise Service at Green Hills Memorial Park, hosted by San Pedro’s Pastors Fellowship and the Alive worship band, in Rancho Palos Verdes on Sunday, April 17, 2022.
The nondenominational event, which in pre-pandemic years drew upwards of 2,300 people, included a benediction, a community prayer and a release of doves, all overlooking the port of Los Angeles. Church leaders throughout the region were hopeful congregation sizes would return to pre-pandemic levels. But, the advent of live-streaming worship services meant some would still opt for the security of home, with coronavirus cases ticking upward last week in Los Angeles County, despite declining hospitalizations.
Ralph Ochoa and Mikaela Esparza attend the Mount Rubidoux Easter sunrise service on Sunday, April 17, 2022. Pastor Mark Davison of Born Again Christian Church addresses the crowd Sunday, April 17, 2022, during the Mount Rubidoux Easter sunrise service. At nearby Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, a full house attended Sunday to hear newly installed Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Mathew P. John’s message.
“Down through history, the church as always faced problems,” said Osburn. “There has been pestilence, disease and wars.” “When we reflect on our times, which are so disturbed with war and divisions, we know that there is only one way to find peace in our families, in our society, in our world, and that is through our faith in Jesus Christ, our personal commitment to follow his teaching and example.”
TMM also organized an Easter Village featuring the Easter Bunny, played by comedian and TMM alumnus Logan Hobson, and baskets full of candy and other treats for children. Nonetheless, orthodox churches hosted Sunday services in Southern California — and other local Christians remembered victims of the conflict in their homilies, their prayers and in vigils and fund-raisers.
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