As you prepare to enter Lent, we invite you to consider how to deepen your faith life in coming weeks. Below are ideas for how to do that, inspired by this year's theme, "The Hardest Part: hurt we carry, hope we find." | |
Life is this strange, tender mix, isn’t it? Joy and sorrow, love and loss, heartbreak and hope, all tangled together. This year, we invite you to embrace Lent as it is—raw, honest, and tender. This is the season that asks us to stop pretending we’re holding it all together. It’s a time to pause, sit with what’s fragile and unfinished, and let God meet us in the hardest parts of our lives. | |
Daily Devotional
This Lent guide, written by Kate Bowler's "Everything Happens Project," includes daily reflections, prompts, and blessings for personal use, offering a steady rhythm to guide your journey through Lent. Lent guides are designed to be a companion through this season as you pause, reflect, and find the courage to stay with the hard part, trusting that the good part is still coming.
Week-by-week hard copies will be available in the Narthex (it's 90 pages, so we'll only print as needed!) and PDF versions are available below.
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Weekday Prayer Services
Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
This year, we are offering a weekly time of scripture, music, and prayer. Join us on Tuesday nights (before Community Chorus!) for these short and simple services.
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Group Reflection
Join our Adult Education team on Sunday mornings for a group approach to the Hardest Part Series: Sunday mornings 9:45-10:45 in the Library or on Zoom. Can't make Sunday mornings and interested in helping create a different group? Let Louisa know!
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March 5
Ash Wednesday
7:00 p.m. worship with imposition of ashes
Being Human
“Ash Wednesday is when we receive the symbol of this reality on our foreheads—the reality of our finitude, our limitations, our very humanity. But simultaneously, the cross traced on our foreheads also becomes the sign of the love of God who sees us, knows us, and accepts us, in all our beloved imperfectability”
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March 9
First Sunday in Lent
Terrible & Beautiful
LUKE 4:1-13
“There will be terrible days and beautiful days, and Jesus is there for all of them.”
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March 16
Second Sunday in Lent
Lament
LUKE 13:13-35
“When we practice lament, we acknowledge the fact that things are not as they should be, and we start to see what God hopes for in the New Creation… Lament invites us into a place of truth-telling, love, and belonging.”
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March 23
Third Sunday in Lent
Imagination
ISAIAH 55:1-9 | LUKE 13:1-9
“Repent.
It means ‘to move beyond the mind you have.’ It doesn’t mean ‘do good and avoid evil.’ It is about seeing things differently.” -Fr. Greg Boyle
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March 30
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Wisdom
2 CORINTHIANS 5:16-21 | LUKE 15
“We will never be able to make total sense of the pain and suffering we endure. But, somehow, we may find little bits of hard-won wisdom in the midst.”
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April 6
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Love
JOHN 12:1-8
“Really loving people goes beyond what we think we can afford. But it has a multiplying effect. Even as we are diminished by loving action to the point of costing us time, money, or energy, it makes more.”
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April 13
Palm/Passion Sunday
Tenebrae Worship featuring Choral Work by Heather Sorenson
11:00 a.m. Worship
“Anticipatory grief is the living and the waiting during the in-between of what is and what is to come. Instances like these force us to live in two timelines, in two realities. Jesus understood what it was like to live [like this].”
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April 17
Maundy Thursday
7:00 p.m. Communion Worship
“Grace doesn't add up
it sits with betrayers,
washes the feet of backstabbers,
breaks bread with the disloyal,
and shares a cup with double-dealers..."
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April 20
Easter Sunday
6:45 a.m. Easter Sunrise Worship
10:00 a.m. Inter-generational Celebration with Egg Hunt
11:00 a.m. Celebration of the Resurrection
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One Great Hour of Sharing
March 5-April 20
Join with Presbyterians worldwide in sharing God’s love with our
neighbors-in-need around the world by providing relief from natural
disasters, food for the hungry, and support for the poor and oppressed.
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The Annual Lenten “PB&J Challenge” is back!
The Emergency Shelter is always in need of sack meals to give out to folks and we want to help: we are challenging households to make 10 sack meals during Lent! Each sack should include a PB&J sandwich and some non-perishable items like chips, fruit cups, granola bars, or other items. You can deliver them yourself to the Emergency Shelter location - or - we'll deliver these for you on Thursdays March 27th and April 10th if dropped off at church by 11am each of those days.
Want to make sandwiches with friends? Stay tuned for a day and time for some inter-generational sandwich making.
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We hope you will worship, learn and serve with us this Lent! | | | | |
