WORSHIP:
In-person worship is 9:30am Sundays, and if you are at home you may listen to our services on 1340 AM Radio each Sunday at 9:30am. Recordings of our worship services are available to watch on Youtube or Facebook the following Wednesday each week. Also, we are on the cable channel # 5 (the latest Sunday isn’t available until Thursday of that week).
LENT:
WEDNESDAYS IN LENT: (Sundays are below) ALTERED BY THE SPIRIT
Join us on Wednesdays during Lent to dig deeper into the Lenten Theme Altered by the Spirit. Wednesday’s readings will come from the Book of Acts and will be tied to a common element that is often broken, reformed, transformed or altered to create something new. Come see how the Spirit is calling each of us to become altered by this new time together, through the Lenten journey of reflection and self-examination, of this identity in which we seek to discover and claim as our own here at Our Savior’s.
Soup Supper ready at 5:15 and worship will begin at 6:00
Ash Wednesday: Acts 1:6-11 Altered in Witness – Legos
February 21: Acts 2:1-13 Altered through God’s Creativity – Crayons
February 28: Acts 8:26-40 Altered on the Edge of Belonging – Kintsugi
March 6: Acts 9:1-22 Altered Alongside our Enemies – Sea Glass
March 13: Acts 10:1-16, 34=35, 44-47 Altered by Disruption – Mosaic pieces
March 20: Acts 12:6-17 Altered Through Stories We Don’t Trust – Candles
March 28: Maundy Thursday ~ Love Altered 6pm
March 29: Good Friday ~ Violence Altered 6pm
LENT THEME: ALTERED BY THE SPIRIT
Lent is often a time of self-reflection, spiritual discipline, commitment, and community. Congregations gather to sing the minor harmonies of the way of Jesus on the road toward the cross. This Lent with Church Anew, however, we are going to look at a kaleidoscope of stories from the Book of Acts, with Revised Common Lectionary suggestions that pair directly with the theme. We’ll see the ways the Spirit alters our perspective, transforms our communities, and consistently blazes a trail ahead of us. We’ll catch up with the work of the Holy Spirit, finding ourselves altered. Because the Spirit is alive in, with, and under our ordinary lives, always calling us forward into transformation, nudging us into wholeness, and beckoning us forth into an alternative way.
SUNDAY TOPICS
Altered in Witness – Ash Wednesday (February 14) Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Altered on the Edge of Belonging – First Sunday of Lent (February 18) Mark 1:9-15
Altered Through Stories We Don’t Trust – Second Sunday of Lent (February 25) Mark 8:31-38
Altered by Disruption – Third Sunday of Lent (March 3) John 2:13-22
Altered through God’s Creativity – Fourth Sunday of Lent (March 10) John 3:14-21
Altered Alongside our Enemies – Fifth Sunday of Lent (March 17) John 12:20-33
Victory Altered – Palm Sunday (March 24) Mark 11:1-11
HOLY WEEK: Maundy Thursday Worship at 6pm, March 28th
Good Friday Worship at 6pm, March 29th
Easter Worship Sunday, March 31st at 9:30am.
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