Our Lenten season will begin with a soup supper featuring soup and bread by Chef Ed Fuentes in partnership with Thrivent. A freewill offering will benefit the emergency needs of students at McKay Elementary School.

Lent has traditionally been a season of the church year in which we prepare for the Easter celebration by turning our hearts to God through prayer, fasting, and acts of service. This Lenten season we are offering the following opportunities:

• Intern Pax has compiled this year's Lenten Devotional, Journeying Towards Liberation Together, with submissions from our community. They will be available at the Ash Wednesday service, if not sooner. Email Intern Pax for instructions on getting a digital copy. 

• Continue to join us every Wednesday of Lent, February 25 through March 25, at 7 pm for a 30-minute worship service reflecting on James Cone's book The Cross and the Lynching Tree, exploring the connection between these tools of violence and how the oppressed have resisted and created liberation despite the threats of empire.

• Further small group study of the book will be available before the Wednesday evening services at 5:45 pm. If you are interested in participating, please sign up on the clipboard in the entry hall this Sunday or email Intern Pax.