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This Church changes lives!
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Worship & more for the
week of 2/14/2021
Livestream links, resources for families and children,
an Invitation to Lent, and "Open Hearts, Faithful Feet"
Worship for Sunday, February 14
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Note on in-person options
As COVID-19 infection rates are currently trending in a hopeful direction, we are updating our plans and procedures to resume in-person additional service opportunities. Watch our email notices, this webpage, and our Facebook page for updates. Please note that, as always, until the whole community is able to gather safely, our livestream worship will remain our primary gathering.
Livestream worship at 9:00am
Color and bury some Alleluias!
As we prepare for Lent, we set aside our most celebratory word for a while. Print and color a few Alleluias, and find a place to “bury” them at home, ready to return on Easter:
Our service is here:
February 14, 2021 Livestream
Our bulletin is here: February 14, 2021
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For Children and Families
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Printable Worship Activity Pages:
Print these Alleluias for coloring and “burying”!
Sunday School
Sunday School is off this week for Mid-Winter break – see you next Sunday!
Here is an idea page for our Stewardship emphasis, “Open Hearts, Faithful Feet”: Stewardship Activities for Families
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Ash Wednesday and Lent invite us to honesty about our limits. If nothing else, the past year has reminded us that we cannot pretend away the realities of sin, death, and the forces that defy God in our world. And we treasure the traditions of Ash Wednesday and Lent because they help us cultivate that honesty and point us toward “the life that really is life,” anchored in
God’s faithfulness (see 1 Timothy 6).
Ash Wednesday is on February 17, and honesty about our human limitations means we’ll be gathering a bit differently this year. We are invited to receive the Imposition of Ashes In-Person from 1-2pm or 5-6pm by driving through the CLC back turnaround, where the Pastors will meet us with the ashes that are a sign of mortality, repentance, and God’s power to create
from dust. We’ll then gather for Livestream Ash Wednesday Worship with Holy Communion at 7:30pm.
Our Wednesday evenings in Lent will again invite us for our sung Holden Evening Prayer service, considering together the sacrament of Holy Communion. Our celebration of the sacrament has been different through the pandemic. We miss gathering physically at the table so terribly – and yet have temporarily found new ways to trust Christ’s presence to meet us. What do we believe about this sacrament? Why do we treasure it?
We’ll consider this together on Wednesdays in Lent at 7:30pm.
You may have noticed that our evening worship time is different this year! A large group of folks in our congregation are participating in the ecumenical Sacred Ground study and conversations around faith, race, honesty, and justice through this Lent, and we have moved worship to make space for that in our life together. This part of discipleship is tremendously important – we’re grateful for those who are leading and participating, and are
keen to see the ways the Holy Spirit will use their growth and faith to lead our congregation’s growth and faithfulness!
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We are invited to receive the Imposition of Ashes In-Person from 1-2pm or 5-6pm by driving through the CLC back turnaround, where the Pastors will meet us with the ashes that are a sign of mortality, repentance, and God’s power to create from dust. We’ll then gather for Livestream Ash Wednesday Worship with Holy Communion at 7:30pm.
Our bulletin is here: Ash-Wednesday-Livestream.pdf
Our livestream service is here: https://youtu.be/QgrOTvnzBXY
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Open Hearts, Faithful Feet
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Our 2021 Stewardship Emphasis comes from our conviction that “Stewardship is everything we do after we say ‘I believe.'” Last week Karen shared with us her story of God’s never-failing strength through difficult twists, turns, and tragedies — and invites us to find God there all along.
Listen this week for another story, and check our Activity Suggestions page for ideas how you can give your stewardship "feet," this week.
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While we keep ourselves separate to steward each others' health, we are including Holy Communion during our livestream on Sundays. Our goal is to experience Communion
together, even while apart; immediate, not something available as a recording that someone might use later; organic, not something prepackaged or purchased; safe and accessible, so people don't need to travel/have contact with others to pick things up. Please note: extraordinary times like these require us to depart from our usual practices. We all eagerly look forward to the time when we can leave these extraordinary measures behind and return to
safely gathering in person on Sundays, as is our norm.
Here's what you need to prepare in advance: Before Sunday's service, choose a plate and cup that you will use for Communion in your space. Find some bread (whatever kind works for you; even a cracker can do in a pinch) and, if you have it, grape juice or wine. Note that if you don't have grape juice or wine, that's perfectly OK; our theology teaches that receiving Christ in one element (i.e. just bread or just wine) is more than sufficient! You can leave an empty cup ready as a sign of
that overabundance of blessing. We also recommend having a candle handy, which you can light throughout the Sunday service, if that is safe for you, to help create a worshipful space.
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