Created for Community: Series for Lent

The invitation to Lent spoken on Ash Wednesday reminds us that we enter this season together “with the whole church” and that “we are created for communion with God, to love one another, and to live in harmony with creation.” Many common Lenten practices rightly invite us to individual acts of “repentance, prayer and fasting, sacrificial giving and works of love.” And, at the same time, the church is a community – the assembly of believers gathered around Word and sacrament. This Lenten season, our Sunday worship will focus on how we are created for community with each other and with God.

Using readings from Mark’s gospel, this series invites all of us to reflect on what it means to be in community with one another, with the world, with creation, and with God.

• 2/18 In Community with Creation: Mark 4:35-41

• 2/25 In Community with all the Saints: Mark 9:2-8 

• 3/3 In Community with our Neighbor: Mark 2:1-12 

• 3/10 In Community with those on the Margins: Mark 5:1-20

• 3/17 In Community with Christ: Mark 10:32-45

Each Sunday, we will also engage with Scripture together through an activity designed to encourage us to strengthen a sense of community. On Wednesdays, the interactive storytelling will focus on “Covenant” and the promises that God makes to humanity in the weekly readings from the Hebrew Scriptures. 

I invite you to join us for worship this Lenten season on Sundays at 9:00 am and Wednesdays at 6:35 pm as we explore deepening our community and our life together as people of God.