Up-Coming Lenten Activities

HOLY WEEK

Sunday April 1 Palm Sunday

Worship begins in the Sanctuary

Wednesday April 4 Meditation Time 5:00 – 6:30 pm

Thursday April 5 Maundy Thursday Service 7:00 pm

Service of Communion and Tennebrae

Friday April 6 Good Friday 3:00 – 7:00 pm

Come in for silence,

interaction with various spiritual activities

and prayer

Sunday April 8 Easter Sunday

7am Easter Sunrise Service

8am Breakfast

9am Worship in Sanctuary

Lenten Wednesdays – 5:00 to 6:30 pm EVERY Wednesday

Time of silent meditation, what you are thinking about God and Prayer. Come to the Fellowship Hall for a time of praying and meditation. There will also be an opportunity to talk about what you are thinking about God. Drop in anytime.

Lenten Study on Sunday morning after worship. We will be discussing matters of life and death.

Sunday, March 25 – Heaven

It will not be depressing because we are people of faith, but talking about it will help us to live better and be better prepared when our time comes to age and face death.

Worship each Sunday. We will build in time for silent meditation, prayer, music and God's word. Join us each day.

A reminder for everyone to please enter our winter worship in Fellowship Hall though the driveway entrance, you will find a coat rack available in front of Gayle’s office. This helps keep the heat in Fellowship Hall. Thanks, we look forward to seeing you at Sunday Worship!

Join us to worship together...in our fellowship hall...Sunday, 9am!

I was reading a weekly newsletter from Sojourner's Magazine, where they were talking about the influence of Evangelicals on our political scene. They quoted a number of well known Evangelicals as they described what they thought Evangelicals are. I have copied one of them for you to think about. If you would like to go to the Sojourner's newsletter, it is at sojomail@sojo.net, called the weekly email-zine.

David Vanderveen, Entrepreneur, surfer, and author:

Being an evangelical Christian means accepting grace and being honest about your faith with others. First, I think you have be honest with yourself and God; and, then, when you’re as true as you can be about both what you actually know and what you actually don’t -- that’s what’s worth sharing.

Let me know what you think about this.

Pastor Gayle

Join us for worship Sunday in our Fellowship Hall!

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There will be two Christmas Eve services: one at 7 pm and another at 11 pm.

On Sunday, our worship service is at 9 am.

From Pastor Gayle

This week was our children's pageant and it was wonderful.   It included cows almost falling off the podium, a busy angel who guided Mary, the shepherds, and the Wise Men, and our great children.  What particularly struck me about this week's worship service is how much we mean to each other.  It was not just the parents of the children who delighted in the pageant.  It brought back wonderful memories for me when my three sons were the Wise Men in our church pageant, but we referred to them as the Wise Guys. Many of us watched our children retell the story with their actions and we were moved.  And I think this points out one of the great strengths of a faith community.  We live in a world divided by so many things;  wealth, age, gender, interests, educational experience.  EXCEPT IN THE CHURCH where we share a common faith in Jesus Christ and that helps us cross a lot of uncommon ground.  Grandmother smiles at the high school student who just received an award.  Grouchy, tired workers pass the peace to someone who has just come back from a mission trip.  Young adolescent teaches the middle aged man all about his world view.    You are so good to have made the commitment to be a part of this congregation.  You are people who are motivated by your faith to be transformed by the wonder of our relationship with God.  You reflect the differences that there are in people everywhere.  But we are a community together because our love for God is stronger than our differences  and the community feeds each other.  Thank you.