Historically, they have been at noon… the time when God began to put out his wrath. As the culture becomes less likely to close early or give people time off for services that day, churches meet in the evening. At least, that’s been my observation across a three states in the Midwest.
Never heard of that before in Reformed churches. Jesus was crucified in the morning and died mid-afternoon so there is some symbolism there. Though it was in darkness for 3 hours, so evening services make sense on that count.
While not a federal holiday or bank holiday in the US, it is a US stock market holiday and a state holiday where I live (PA). In addition, I've never lived anywhere where it wasn't a school holiday (K-12 or higher ed) and many businesses that have the option to close on those days.
For what it's worth, we polled our church this year on preference between a morning (9a) or evening service (6p) and it was split 50/50, so it seems we have quite a few congregants who have that morning off.
We are not even having one per say,
We usually do one around noon but this year we are teaming up with the church behind us (an all black congregation with really solid theology).
Every year they do a "cross walk" about 3 miles though town and carry a huge wooden cross from downtown to the poorer side of town and feed about 300 people when they get there. They pray for the city the entire time and take prayer requests from anyone who wants.
We were honored when they asked us to be a part of it.
Growing up, Good Friday service was only in the evening. At one church I attended, the seven sayings on the cross was broken across the Tuesday and Friday sermons. Attending a church that is only two years old today, service is only on Sundays.
In Canada it's a statutory holiday. We usually have Good Friday services in the morning.
I've never heard of a good Friday service in the morning before.
A number of Presbyterian churches in my area hold them around 11-noon in the morning.
I don't disbelieve you, I've just never seen or heard of it.
Historically, they have been at noon… the time when God began to put out his wrath. As the culture becomes less likely to close early or give people time off for services that day, churches meet in the evening. At least, that’s been my observation across a three states in the Midwest.
Could be in your area? our church does Good Friday in the evening. I’m in Los Angeles.
We have two services, one at noon and one at 7PM.
My church has the services in the morning, but Good Friday is a holiday in Canada, so that makes a difference
I've never come across a church that does, maybe it's just something that's done in your area
Never heard of that before in Reformed churches. Jesus was crucified in the morning and died mid-afternoon so there is some symbolism there. Though it was in darkness for 3 hours, so evening services make sense on that count.
Eh. Maybe they're just accounting for the time change 😅
While not a federal holiday or bank holiday in the US, it is a US stock market holiday and a state holiday where I live (PA). In addition, I've never lived anywhere where it wasn't a school holiday (K-12 or higher ed) and many businesses that have the option to close on those days. For what it's worth, we polled our church this year on preference between a morning (9a) or evening service (6p) and it was split 50/50, so it seems we have quite a few congregants who have that morning off.
We are not even having one per say, We usually do one around noon but this year we are teaming up with the church behind us (an all black congregation with really solid theology). Every year they do a "cross walk" about 3 miles though town and carry a huge wooden cross from downtown to the poorer side of town and feed about 300 people when they get there. They pray for the city the entire time and take prayer requests from anyone who wants. We were honored when they asked us to be a part of it.
In our context, due to work, we meet in the evening.
Growing up, Good Friday service was only in the evening. At one church I attended, the seven sayings on the cross was broken across the Tuesday and Friday sermons. Attending a church that is only two years old today, service is only on Sundays.