March 28, 2024

Cross Walk set for Friday

The community is invited to attend the annual Cross Walk presented by the Mission Coalition and hosted by the seven downtown churches on Good Friday.

The walk begins at noon at the First Presbyterian Church and will conclude at 1 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. The walk will include stops at the other churches — United Presbyterian, First United Methodist, Congregational United Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ and First Lutheran Church — and will have prayer, scripture readings and music at each stop led by various church members. The cross will be carried from church to church.

“Christ was executed in the morning, and it was early afternoon when he died,” First Presbyterian interim pastor Linda Curtis-Stolper told the Daily News in March. “This is what we’re trying commemorate with the Cross Walk. It has been a very meaningful way for me to spend Good Friday. I hope that all of us as Christians on Good Friday are thinking about what it is we’re remembering. This is the day of the death of our Lord and Savior.”