Article: Services focus on last days of Jesus ; With music, ritual and pageanty, St. Andrew United Church of Christ will join Christians in many places for Palm Sunday observances.

St. Andrew Church of the United Church of Christ at Lime and New streets will observe Palm/Passion Sunday with a service of preaching and Communion at 10:45 a.m.

Before the processional hymn, "All Glory, Laud, and Honor," the Rev. Robert Hunsicker will read the account of Christ's entry into Jerusalem from the Gospel of St. Matthew.

Later in the service, Hunsicker and lector Lois Geist will share in reading Matthew's account of Christ's suffering and death. After the Communion service, palm branches will be distributed by Sunday school children.

The St. Andrew Choir, under the direction of Roger Kurtz, will sing "Upon the Cross Extended" by Leonhard Lechner.

Kurtz's organ prelude will be ...

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