LOOKING AHEAD
February 22 – PCATS Older Adult luncheon (11:30 – 2:00)
in the Church House
- 7:00 PM Ash Wednesday Worship and Imposition
of Ashes - Service in the Chapel
February 26 - First Sunday in Lent
Our children will receive their “Fish Banks” so that they may collect coins during Lent and through their banks participate in One Great Hour of Sharing Offering. The Mission Committee recommends adults pick up a fish bank for their own use in the Narthex. This year families and individuals will also receive “Table Tents” - prayer cards for use at your dinner table for each week in Lent. Prepared by “Bread for the World” these prayers keep before us the needs of the planet’s hungry.
February 29, March 7, 14, 21 and 28 - Wednesday Evenings
Gather with others in the Church House at 7:30 PM for a brief time of prayer and reflection. This year we will be using the poetry of Ann Weems written for the Lent and Easter seasons as a focus for our meditations.
Care Packages for our College Students
The Church School is planning to put together care packages for our college students. We want to remind them that their church family is thinking about them and praying for them while they are away. We could use your help collecting snacks to send. Microwave soups, Easy Mac, pop corn, crackers, trail mix, nuts, gum, snack bars, individual assorted snacks or cookies, tea, coffee singles etc. We're collecting items each Sunday during the month of March.
March 11 - The Presby Readers—Sunday, at 4:00 p.m. at Mary Jane Eimer’s home and a light snack will be served. Rev. Dr. Lindner will be facilitating Ruta Sepetys’ Between Shades of Gray. From Booklist - Sepetys' first novel offers a harrowing and horrifying account of the forcible relocation of countless Lithuanians in the wake of the Russian invasion of their country in 1939. In the case of 16-year-old Lina, her mother, and her younger brother, this means deportation to a forced-labor camp in Siberia. A gifted artist, she begins secretly creating pictures. It is her art that will be her salvation, helping her to retain her identity, her dignity, and her increasingly tenuous hold on hope for the future. Sepetys, the daughter of a Lithuanian refugee, estimates that the Baltic States lost more than one-third of their populations during the Russian genocide.
