February 14

Welcome.  We hope you enjoy your visit.

News:  There is no quilting this week as we decided that it was time to focus on worship together on Ash Wednesday.   Our service was at 3:45,  after school so the children were with us,  and before dark so that driving was safer when we headed home.    While we were waiting for church to start we decided to sing,  and the request was made for "Joy to the World."   Not the usual Lenten hymn,  but wonderfully appropriate,  with its "let every heart prepare"  and "no more lets sins and sorrows grow,  or thorns infest the ground."  Sometimes it is truly wondrous how children can bring us to do and see things we would entirely miss without their innocence and openness.   Our winter community being so small makes for an intimacy impossible otherwise,  and we had open time during our confession for people to make individual confessions,  aloud or silent.  We turned and knelt at the pews and it seemed the everyone was sincere in that silence and in what was shared before God and one another.  At the end of confession there is the imposition with ashes where the sign of the cross is made on the forehead with the words,  "Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return"  and we were reminded of our frailty and dependence on each other.   This beginning of Lent worship did help us so much to understand once again what this time of year can mean and how we can be touched by God and brought forward toward the Resurrection by sharing the life of Christ in renouncing ourselves.  "More for God and less for me."      

Schedule:

February 17   First Sunday in Lent.  10:00 Sunday School  10:30 Worship.  Lunch Follows.
February 24  Second Sunday in Lent. !0:00 Sunday School 10:30 Worship.  Lunch Follows.