Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, February 17, with a service at 6:30 p.m. The season of Lent is a well-practiced and rewarding experience of adopting some spiritual discipline in our life for the forty days leading up to Easter. One of the classic disciplines is a Lenten “fast” – to give
up something for Lent (dessert, television, checking email after 6:00 p.m., etc.). What we give up is not “bad”, but rather the lack becomes a reminder to be devoted to spiritual awareness.
Another Lenten practice is a disciplined course of worship and study. Each Wednesday, there will be such an opportunity, at lunchtime and in the evening. The lunchtime opportunity is ecumenical involving downtown congregations. The evening is our own Worshipful Wednesday.
Worshipful Wednesday Evenings in Lent
Spiritual Gifts:
One of the New Testament understandings is that God has endowed us with spiritual gifts for the ministry. This study will explore spiritual gifts and address how we may practice these gifts.
Leadership: Paul Rader
Strengths Finder:
A truism of life is that we enjoy most what we have the strengths to accomplish. The Gallup Organization has developed a personality inventory called “Strengths Finder”. This study will utilize the inventory and address how we may work our strengths.
Leadership: William Pender
Faith Stories:
Faith is more a story than a “set of facts”. This study will explore how our faith is “story based” and how we use our own story for self-awareness and for sharing our faith.
Leadership: Elizabeth Peterson
A “Mindful” Journey of the Soul: Jung, Lewis, Einstein and Polkinghome:
This study will examine some major themes of faith in some very influential thinkers in the last 150 years: Karl Jung, C.S. Lewis, Albert Einstein and John Polkinghome.
Leadership: We welcome back Jack Davis, former Associate Pastor
Each Adult tract will meet four Wednesdays (February 24, March 3, 10, and 24) beginning at 6:30 p.m. with dinner from 5:30-6:25. On Wednesday, March 17: A St. Patrick’s Day Worship and Celebration - appetizers from 5:30-5:55; service at 6:00 p.m. and meal to follow.
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