The Messenger - February 2016 - (Page 1)

F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 6 The Messenger Making Gentle a Bruised World Looking Ahead: Ashes to Resurrection Content Volunteer Opportunity 2 Savor Returns 3 Table Talk 4-5 Youth News 5 Gratitude 6 A Letter from Mark Zimmerman 6 Calendar 7 The season of Lent begins early this year. Ash Wednesday is Feb. 10. We'll have chili and soup at 6pm before a candlelit service at 7pm, featuring musicians from our 9:30 and 10:45 worship hours. The meal will benefit the work of Lumina, a United Methodist ministry that works to overcome poverty. Our focus throughout Lent will be the story of Holy Week, as told in the book of Matthew. Holy Week is the final week of Lent and begins with Palm Sunday. But we'll be taking a closer look at what happened on the weekdays of that momentous week in Jesus' life and, indeed, in the history of the world. The first Sunday of Lent (Feb. 14), we'll take a look at what happened on Monday of Holy Week. That's when Jesus turned the tables in the Temple. The second Sunday (Feb. 21), we'll examine what happened on Tuesday, when a bunch of people asked him a lot of questions and he answered, sometimes with his own questions and riddles. The third Sunday (Feb. 28), we'll recall and explore the story of the woman who "wasted" an expensive jar of perfumed oil, pouring it on Jesus. And so on through the season. When it comes to Palm Sunday (March 20), because we will have just spent the prior Sunday focused on Good Friday, we will have a joyous, purely-Palm-Sunday celebration before entering into that solemn Monday-Saturday sequence, hopefully with a deeper understanding of the Passion story. We'll go in depth with that again on Thursday night (March 24), as we gather for worship at 7pm in the Lower Room (Zerr Hall), recalling the week's events, and especially what happened in the Upper Room, in a participatory re-enactment of that tragic night. Then, we can anticipate that our celebration of Easter on March 27 will be most joyous because we will be fully aware of the miracle that God has done in coming to live and die among us and yet to live again.

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