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Everyone likes to wave palms and remember when Jesus entered Jerusalem. And many of us like to keep our palms from Palm Sunday and put them up somewhere to remind us of last year’s Holy Week remembrances and celebrations. And those of us that are religious fanatics like to save our palms to burn them for the following year’s ashes on Ash Wednesday. So, despite not being in worship on Palm Sunday we are going to place palms on a clearly marked table out in the parking lot on March 28th / Palm Sunday. You are free to come by any time between 9:00 a.m. and 12 noon. Enjoy and be sure to wave them out the window on your way home!

Ash Wednesday. Wednesday, February 17th, 2021 @ 7pm via Zoom.
Zoom ID# 882 4274 4962 or use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88242744962?pwd=RU9CNW1VUHc0N1RwWGg4TTVsa1daZz09
Lent is one of the sacred times in the life of the Christian Church. It is a time to reflect on our faith and how we live it out in today’s world. It is also a time to remember some of the more difficult experiences in Christ’s life that culminated in his death. Christians have long used this time as an opportunity to delve into life issues that might be a bit deeper and more meaningful than usual. During this Covid time, we will be trying to continue this long tradition and offer some of the usual offerings with a technological twist. Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, a time when we place ashes on our head to remember our shared humanity; traditionally we remember our shared culpability in human sin, but we also remember that ashes ground us in the earth, a common element in all our creation and a sacred gift from God. Traditionally, the ashes come from last year’s palms that we waved to welcome Jesus into Jerusalem and each year I burn last year’s palms. However, with Covid, I invite all of you to burn your own palms [if you saved one and if my stash of last year’s palms will be available in the Church Street entryway] and place ashes on your own forehead or wrist or those of your family’s when we invite you to do so during the service. Hope to see you there.

Here is the bulletin for Sunday Worship. It begins at 9:45am (preparatory phase) and then fully kicks off at 10am. This is also Annual Meeting Sunday! The meeting begins at 11:15am and piggy-backs off of the Fellowship Hour meeting that follows worship. Please, click this link to read the Warning, access the Zoom teleconference link, and read the Annual Report. (Annual Report is embedded at the bottom of the Warning’s page.)

WARNING FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING: Sunday, February 7th @ 11:15am via Zoom Teleconference