Palm Sunday preparations in Perrysburg

3/28/2010
Slug: CTY palms28p Date: 3/27/2010 Toledo Blade/Amy E. Voigt Location: Toledo, OH CAPTION: A basket of palms is at the entrance of First United Methodist Church during a contemporary prayer service for parishioners to take home if they can't make Palm Sunday services tomorrow.
Slug: CTY palms28p Date: 3/27/2010 Toledo Blade/Amy E. Voigt Location: Toledo, OH CAPTION: A basket of palms is at the entrance of First United Methodist Church during a contemporary prayer service for parishioners to take home if they can't make Palm Sunday services tomorrow.

A basket of palm branches sits at the entrance to First United Methodist Church in Perrysburg Saturday. Sunday is Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week.

Churches use branches to commemorate the biblical account of crowds waving palm branches to greet Jesus as he entered Jerusalem, five days before his death on the cross.