Messenger 03/06/25
First Sunday in Lent
This Sunday the Wesley Club will be leading Worship!
Wesley Club Students will be serving as our Worship Leaders who will be leading us through the Opening Prayer and the Call To Worship.
This week’s scripture reading will be Jeremiah 31:31-34 (from the Message Bible)
“That’s right. The time is coming when I will make a brand-new covenant with Israel and Judah. It won’t be a repeat of the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant even though I did my part as their Master.” God’s Decree. “This is the brand-new covenant that I will make with Israel when the time comes. I will put my law within them—write it on their hearts!—and be their God. And they will be my people. They will no longer go around setting up schools to teach each other about God. They’ll know me firsthand, the dull and the bright, the smart and the slow. I’ll wipe the slate clean for each of them. I’ll forget they ever sinned!” God’s Decree.
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We are currently looking for help for our Coffee Hour after Service.
Some of the ways you can help is by:
Assisting in the set up of coffee hour prior to worship starting
Bringing snacks, goodies, dessert to share
Assisting in clean up after coffee hour
The Coffee Hour is a great time for everyone to come together as a community and share their thoughts, ideas, and make a connection with other members at Church. To sign up or learn more, email Holly at office@gardenstreetumc.org or stop by the desk before/after service. You can also check out other volunteer opportunities such as Ushering and Flowers for Sanctuary.
To Sign up, visit: https://bit.ly/0325Volunteers
The past couple years the Wesley Club has volunteered on a Saturday with Habitat for Humanity. This year they asked that we volunteer to help members of our congregation with small tasks. For example, checking the batteries in smoke detectors, moving furniture, raking, cleaning hard to reach spaces, etc. If there is something that you could use help with and would like a Wesley Club student’s support, please contact Greg Hartgraves (greg@gardenstreetumc.org). He will assess if your task is something that a student can complete and match a student(s) to the task.
Garden Street Lenten Study 2025
So often during Lent we are invited to look inward, reflecting on our personal faith journey. We live with the question, “How am I living as Jesus did?” Focusing on our own successes and failures, we strive to reflect the love and light of Christ in this time and place.
This year is different. The things that are happening in our nation and the world right now call us to consider a broader vista than ourselves. Garden Street’s values include: A commitment to inclusiveness, building community, sustainable ministry, growth mindset of individuals and our congregation, and being Christ in the community and the world.
As a congregation committed to these values, in these times, looking at people and situation beyond our own experience and listening to another narrative, beyond our own story, will broaden our vision of what it means to love God and to love our neighbor as the body of Christ. The question expands. What might we be about as we embody our commitment to be Christ in the community and the world?
Our study book, Where We Meet: A Lenten Study of Systems, Stories and Hope, will guide us to tell our own stories as we share in this journey toward Easter; the day that brings the greatest hope of all!
Where We Meet: A Lenten Study of Systems, Stories and Hope. By RacheL Gilmore, Rev. Dr. Candace M. Lewis, Rev. Tyler Sit, Matt Temple. (All of the authors are involved in the United Methodist Church as church planters, revitalizers and community organizers.)
The past couple years the Wesley Club has volunteered on a Saturday with Habitat for Humanity. This year they asked that we volunteer to help members of our congregation with small tasks. For example, checking the batteries in smoke detectors, moving furniture, raking, cleaning hard to reach spaces, etc. If there is something that you could use help with and would like a Wesley Club student’s support, please contact Greg Hartgraves (greg@gardenstreetumc.org). I will assess if your task is something that a student can complete and match a student(s) to the task.
Books are available at Cokesbury and Amazon (paperback and Kindle) or may be ordered from Village Books.
Coming up next week we have:
Tuesday (03/11)
Social Action Team - 4:00 pm via google meets. Email office@gardenstreetumc.org to join.
Wednesday (03/12)
Men’s Breakfast - 7:00 am at Avenue Bread on James Street
Wesley Club - 6:00pm at 2401 Cornwall Ave. (last dinner of winter quarter)
Sunday (03/16)
Christian Book Club - 10:30 am via zoom - Email office@gardenstreetumc.org to join
Handbells - 11:15 am at 2401 Cornwall Ave.
Choir - 1:00 pm at 2401 Cornwall Ave.
Sunday Worship - 2:30 pm at 2401 Cornwall Ave.
UWIF Book Sale - 3:30* pm in the Social Hall immediately following service, 2401 Cornwall Ave.
Upcoming Events
Board of Stewards - (3/18) 4:00pm in Pastor Kathy’s Office.
Prayers
Please Pray for:
Please pray for:
Daniel's anxiety and stress.
For Alex's found family, especially those in the LGBTQ+ unhoused communities, and for the found family that supported them this week.
For Sarah's friends, Deb & Nolan, who are having a baby.
And for Gail's brother, Tim, who has cancer.
Can’t make it in person? View the live on YouTube!
