Hickory – The Hickory Area Ministers and Greater Hickory Ministerial Alliance will host the following programs for the upcoming Easter season:

Community Lent Luncheon Series, March 6-10, Wednesdays 12:00pm – 1:00pm, Lunch $5:

Corinth Reformed Church, 150 16th Ave NW Hickory, NC 28601. March 6 -Speaker Rev. Dr. Ted Powell, retired United Methodist pastor; March 13 – Speaker Rev. Dr. Virginia Wright, Associate Pastor Mt. Zion Baptist Church; March 20 -Speaker Sis.Carolyn Thompson, Lay Leader, Hartzell Memorial United Methodist Church

Friendship Missionary Baptist Church 340 1st St. SW Hickory, NC 28602. March 27 – Speaker Rev. Mary Roller, First Advent Christian Church; April 3 – Speaker   Rev. Jill Isola, Pastor, Northminster Presbyterian Church; April 10 – Speaker   Rev. Dr. Christy Lohr Sapp, Pastor, St. Andrews Lutheran Church

Holy Week, April 15 – 19, 7:00pm nightly, Morning Star First Baptist Church 126 4th Ave SW, Hickory, NC 28602. Speaker: Rev. Dr. Clinton Feemster, Pastor, Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, Bessemer City, NC .

Seven Last Words Worship Service, St. Aloysius Catholic Church, 921 2nd St NE, Hickory, NC 28601, 12:00pm – 3:00pm. Speakers: Rev. Bob Thomson, Pastor, Corinth Reformed Church; Rev. Whit Malone, Pastor, First Presbyterian Church of Hickory; Rev. Chris Webb, Pastor, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church; Rev. Paul Christy, Pastor, First United Methodist Church; Rev. David Roberts, Pastor, Morning Star First Baptist Church; Deacon Bill Schreiber, St. Aloysius Catholic Church; Rev. Tryggvi G. Arnason, Pastor, St. Albans Episcopal Church.

Sunrise Service, April 21, 6:00am Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 340 1st St. SW Hickory, NC 28602. Speaker: Rev. I. Melvin Peay, Pastor, St. Paul AME Zion Church.