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        February 20th A.D. 2012 
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Dear Friends in Christ!
This week we begin our 40 day journey of repentance and preparation 
in the time known as  
Lent. The liturgical colors of this season will turn to purple this Wednesday the 22d of February -- Ash Wednesday -- and will continue until the Festival Service of the Resurrection on Sunday April 8th (Easter Sunday).  Imposition of Ashes will be offered at our 12:30 PM and 6:30 PM worship times on Wednesday.
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Our Lenten Soup Suppers begin on February 22, and go every Wednesday through Lent from 5:30 to 6:30.  Karen Dickerson needs help setting up at 5:00 and cleaning up at 6:30.  We have a sign up sheet on the big green bulletin board if you could please sign up so we know about how many to expect and what they are going to bring. We'll also need soup and crackers or bread, as well as soup bowls and plastic spoons.  Please contact Karen if you'd like to help!
 
Please see our calendar on the News Page for the latest schedule in Lenten opportunities, and read on to learn more!
What's up with all the Fives?
Five!

Glad you asked!  Our Lenten stewardship emphasis will be on "Five Practices of Fruitful Living". Want to learn more about Fruitful Living?  Please read the 15th Chapter of the Gospel According to John.

 

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit -- fruit that will last."           John 15:16

 

Every day during Lent, we will post a new thought about fruitful living on our Twitter and Facebook sites. Weekly Website News e-mails will

Five Practices

 reinforce each weekly theme:


Week 1 - Radical Hospitality 

Week 2 - Passionate Worship

Week 3 - Intentional Faith Development

Week 4 - Risk-taking Mission and Service

Week 5 - Extravagant Generosity

 

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http://www.resurrectionpeople.org/news/index.php 

 

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Join us in prayerful discussion about how to make our lives more fruitful! 

 

 

A Lenten Pilgrimage to Wellness

Is your life centered?   Are your priorities straight?  This month begins the season of Lent.  The season of Lent, historically, is a time to repent and to get one's life centered.  To help you with this mission, the Health Ministry Team is putting together another walking and wellness campaign and invites you to participate in the experience.

 

You are invited to live prayerfully through the Lenten season while increasing your physical activity.  By walking two miles a day during the 40 days of Lent, you will journey the distance of 80 miles which is equivalent to the distance between Jesus' hometown of Nazareth and Jerusalem. 

 

The first day of the walking and wellness campaign (February 22nd) coincides with the first day of Lent or Ash Wednesday.  Since Ash Wednesday is a somber day of self-reflection, we are reminded on this day and throughout the season of Lent to focus on what needs to be changed in our lives to become fully Christian.  A calendar will be made available to help you with this process which includes daily Bible readings, prayer concerns, and activities.  We hope that you will join us!

 

Read the article on our program in the Free Lance Star!

 

Want some inspiration?  Wondering who those two Lutheran doctors are in the photo?  
Go to:  http://www.hereiwalk.org/

 

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luther"...Faith is God's work in us, that changes us and gives new birth from God (John 1:13)... Yes, it is a living, creative, active and powerful thing, this faith. Faith cannot help doing good works constantly. It doesn't stop to ask if good works ought to be done, but before anyone asks, it already has done them and continues to do them without ceasing." 

Rev Dr Martin Luther
1522
 

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