March 5: Ash Wednesday (Held at Bethany UMC)
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- Mar 4
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Ash Wednesday: The season of Lent is a time of reflections, repentance, and new beginnings. First Church is joining with Bethany and Campbelltown United Methodist Churches for a new beginning in cooperative ministry by cosponsoring a few special services. Ash Wednesday will be held at Bethany at 7:00 PM and focus on setting the tone for this season of repentance. The primary scripture will be Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 and Pastor Jim will deliver the message.
See you Sunday.
Grace and Peace,
Pastor Jim
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
2 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy mountain!Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near—2 a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness!Like blackness spread upon the mountains a great and powerful army comes;their like has never been from of old, nor will be again after them in ages to come.
12 Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart,with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;13 rend your hearts and not your clothing.Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful,slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing.14 Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him,a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord, your God?
15 Blow the trumpet in Zion; sanctify a fast;call a solemn assembly;16 gather the people.Sanctify the congregation; assemble the aged;gather the children, even infants at the breast.Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her canopy.
17 Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep.Let them say, “Spare your people, O Lord, and do not make your heritage a mockery, a byword among the nations.Why should it be said among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”