Each Wednesday Evening During Lent – Soup Supper 6:00 PM and Worship 7:00 PM

Join us starting on March 16 through April 13th every Wednesday Evening to enter into the Lenten Experience with time together over a great, hot bowl of soup.  Worship follows.  We will use Holden Evening Prayer for worship, and hear the stories of faith from those among us.

March 13, 2011 Second Worship Opportunity added. Now worship at 9:00 AM and 11:00 AM

Our Worship life together is at the heart of our community experience here at Advent.  In order to welcome more people.. “So that all may know Christ’s love!”  we will add a second worship on this week, the first week of Lent to continue through the Spring.  The 9:00 AM worship and the 11:00 worship will be much the same for now.  Sunday School will start at 10:00 AM and Adult Bible Study will take place at 10:15 AM.  Now you can sleep in a little and still get in on the blessings of worship!

New Member Sunday – March 6, 2011

Folks interested in membership at Advent will be welcomed into our community with an “Affirmation of Baptism” worship on March 6 at 9:00 AM.  There’s still plenty of room.  Call Pastor Barb if you are interested in membership.

Ash Wednesday – Lent Begins – March 9, 2011

Worship is offered at 12:00 PM followed by a soup lunch, and 7:00 PM

On March 9th the liturgical Christian Church begins the season of Lent with a solemn day of prayer called Ash Wednesday.  This deeply moving worship experience includes letting go of the things that weigh us down through a thorough confession of sins, and the placing of ashes on our foreheads.  This ancient symbol of repentance reminds us of our mortality with the words, “From dust you have come, to dust you have return.”  While this may sound morbid to some, the experience is truly a welcome “letting go” of the things that separate us from God and each other.    The wrongs we hold on to, both our own and others, and the realization that this life is short, and nothing can separate us from God’s love.