Over the past few years, our church has grown in engagement the traditional church calendar which, throughout the year, provides rhythms of celebration and remembrance practiced by Christians all over the world and for centuries past. Advent, Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost are a few examples.

This year, the elders invite everyone to engage the season of Lent: forty days of self-denial, repentance, and reflection as we prepare to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord on Easter. 
(Fun fact: those forty days are forty weekdays. Lent is actually the forty-six days prior to Easter, but fasting is not practiced on the sabbath.)

In a culture inundated by the individualistic pursuit of wealth, pleasure, and comfort, Lent turns our desires toward Jesus. It is a period to empty ourselves of lesser things so we might be filled with the greater things of the kingdom of God.

As the beginning of the Lenten season, we invite you to take part in our first-ever Ash Wednesday gatherings. Our time together will be spent in humble prayer—silent and aloud—and worship.

And, yes, we will apply ashes to the foreheads of those who desire.