February 2007

I failed to take a day off last week, so I’ll be trying to observe a sabbath today. I plan to start posting again tomorrow.

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Several people noticed that we didn’t have any flowers on the altar yesterday. In recognition of the solemnity of Lent (and in an attempt to fill other Sundays in the year) we don’t have altar flowers during Lent. We already have flowers scheduled for Easter Sunday. After that, I think we have flowers scheduled until June 20th, but there are still plenty of Sundays left in 2007. Call the office to reserve a week in honor or memory of someone you love.

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Due to sickness, we missed some of our regular attendees at yesterday’s Movie Event, but we were very happy to welcome some new folks. We’ve already scheduled the next Movie Event for Sunday, March 25 at 3:00 p.m. We’ll be watching Little Joe, the “prequel” to yesterdays Moe and the Big Exit. We need volunteers to help with these events. Please let John or Jenny know if you are willing to help.

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This was the big one. We moved everything out of the main office, our painter painted it, and then we moved everything back in. It looks great. If there was one thing that kept me from posting very much last week it was the process of moving so much stuff during a week when I was preparing a sermon.

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Regular readers may have noticed that I didn’t do much posting last week. It was a busy one. I’ll try to get everyone up to date in the next few posts.

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The most recent Parish Visitor is now available on the “Newsletter” page of our website.

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We’ll be beginning the book study on Eight Life-Enriching Practices of United Methodists by Hal Knight next Tuesday (February 27) at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. (You only need to come to one, not both). If you want to take part, but haven’t signed up call the church office or email [email protected]

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We’ll be having our Ash Wednesday service tomorrow during the Wednesday Gathering at 7:15 p.m.

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The Upper Room has a new “Daily Reflections” page at: http://www.upperroom.org/daily. I thought the quote for today’s reflection very aptly summarized the purpose of lent. Here’s the quote:

“Lent serves as our annual invitation to come closer to God. It provides a time to look at our lives and ourselves, not so we may criticize ourselves more harshly but so we can identify the obstructions that keep us from God. What keeps us from feeling the presence of the divine in our every day? How do we hide from God, and why? Lent gives us a chance to look at such obstructions and to move them gently away so that we can come closer to the Love that gives us life, the Love whose triumph we will celebrate on Easter morning.”

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