Greetings, one and all, and welcome to the Pastor Mike Drop podcast. My name is Mike

Householder, and I'm your host, and I'm joined as always by Emily Lang Paul. Hello, Emily.

How are you?

I'm good. How are you? Excellent. The continuation

of social distancing continues on this podcast. So you are home, are you not right now? I am home. Excellent.

But you are working hard. I know that because we are on video calls all week long. Joining us today are some familiar faces to the Pastor Mike Drop podcast, and we are so glad

to have you guys both back.

Colette Nelson is the director of our pastoral care team here at Hope.

Hello, Colette.

Hello.

Welcome back.

And you know them, you love them, the lead-off hitter in our lineup, Pastor Jeremy Johnson. Welcome back, Jeremy.

Hey, it's great to be here. Thanks for having me today. So this episode of our podcast, we want to talk about Holy Week. And we want to talk about it in context with what we're dealing with as, I was going going to say as a community, but it's bigger than

that, as a world, this COVID-19 season of uncertainty, these difficult days for so many people,

even if it isn't for you, it's difficult for some. So we want to talk about this Holy Week

with the backdrop of COVID-19 and talk about it as a

Holy Week heart check and kind of get to the heart of what Holy Week is really all about,

the stories that we get to share and celebrate and rejoice in, the stories that stand at the

heart and center of our Christian faith.

And I'm so glad you guys are here to join us for that. So without further ado, Emily,

let's dive right into our two-minute drill.

Let's do it.

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