First Sunday in Lent – February 21, 2021

On Ash Wednesday the church began its journey toward baptismal immersion in the death and resurrection of Christ. This year, the Sundays in Lent lead us to focus on Jive covenants God makes in the Hebrew Scriptures and to use them as lenses through which to view baptism. First Peter connects the way God saved Noah s family in the flood with the way God saves us through the water of baptism. The baptismal covenant is made with us individually, but the new life we are given in baptism is for the sake of the whole world.

Ash Wednesday – February 17, 2021

On Ash Wednesday we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance. Marking our foreheads with dust, we acknowledge that we die and return to the earth. At the same time, the dust traces the life-giving cross indelibly marked on our foreheads at baptism. While we journey through Lent to return to God, we have already been reconciled to God through Christ. We humbly pray for God to make our hearts clean while we rejoice that “now is the day of salvation.” Returning to our baptismal call, we more intentionally bear the fruits of mercy and justice in the world.

Transfiguration of Our Lord – February 14, 2021

Thank you all for your amazing support and love and faithful prayers for Leslie and our family. What a difference it makes to be lifted up and healed in body and spirit by you all.

Please refer to Leslie’s “CaringBridge.org” page for updates and details about her story in case you may not have heard about her accident.

The light of Christ is brighter than any darkness that we may encounter in life. It is comforting to celebrate this mountain-top story of how God is always seeking to illumine our way. May our weekly time together in spirit help us to continually “Listen to God!” as we are asked to do in the Gospel story from Mark.

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Fifth Sunday after Epiphany – February 7, 2021

Thank you all for your amazing support and love and faithful prayers for Leslie and our family. What a difference it makes to be lifted up and healed in body and spirit by you all.

Please refer to Leslie’s https://CaringBridge.org page for updates and details about her story in case you may not have heard about her accident.

I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect theme of scripture verses than these, as we see on the front of our attached bulletin cover from the Gospel of Mark…”He came and took her by the hand and lifted her up.” We have experienced this truth of God’s ways of healing in a very personal way.

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Fourth Sunday after Epiphany – January 31, 2021

We join our hearts in worship on the 4th Sunday after Epiphany by coming here and participating in the recorded service.

As we gather for our Annual Meeting on Sunday at 11 am via Zoom (email link sent on Friday), it is very important that we participate in worship together in Spirit first, if possible. I hope you will be able to worship first and then join the meeting. This sets our priorities well and reminds us of our calling and purpose as a church.

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