2026 Holy Week and easter Services

Check out all of the different worshipping experiences and gatherings this Holy Week, March 28-April 5

Celebrate resurrection WITH The Gathering PLACE

There are many different opportunities to worship and serve this Holy Week. Check out everything going on at The Gathering Place and First United this Easter season:

  • One of our favorite days of the whole year! We’ll have age-level Easter egg hunts, inflatables, crafts, face-painting, and more!

    Location: 1700 5th St, Daytona Beach, FL 32117

    Wanna volunteer? We could use some more help! Click here to serve: https://firstunited.shelbynextchms.com/external/form/e06fe077-a544-4ca8-960a-f8208bfc6b14

  • Worship at The Gathering Place with the message and music that kicks off the holiest week in the Christian year. Kids will walk through the worship center with palm branches at the end of the service.

    Location: 518-K Fentress Blvd, Daytona Beach, FL 32114

  • Serve and share dinner with the veterans at Barracks of Hope with a brief worship service after dinner.

    Location: 962 Derbyshire Rd, Daytona Beach, FL 32117

    Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904044BA5A92AA0FF2-62599615-maundy#/

  • View the masterpieces featured in the Sacred Gallery at First United with devotions at 4pm, 5pm, and 6pm.

    Location: 336 S Halifax Dr., Ormond Beach, FL 32176

  • Hope is alive! Christ is risen! Alleluia!

    Worship and praise at The Gathering Place as we experience the hope that picks up all our broken pieces and makes a masterpiece.

    Location: 518-K Fentress Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114

Watch Easter

wherever you are

Retired UMC pastor Rev. Annette Stiles-Pendergrass will be preaching on Easter Sunday, April 5, 2026 while Pastor Amy is out on maternity leave.

  • "Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen."

    Luke 24:5-6

  • "He was buried and raised from the dead on the third day, just as the scriptures said."

    1 Corinthians 15:4

  • "Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though they die, yet shall they live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die."

    John 11:25-26