Messenger 03/20/25
Third Sunday in Lent
Amory Peck will be serving as our Worship Leader this week, leading us through the Opening Prayer and the Call To Worship.
This week’s scripture reading will be Luke 13:6-9
Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none. So he said to the gardener, 'See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?' He replied, 'Sir, let it alone for one more year, until I dig around it and put manure on it. If it bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’"
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Garden Street Lenten Study 2025
Review of last meeting
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.)
Books are available at Cokesbury and Amazon (paperback and Kindle) or may be ordered from Village Books.
Mark your Calendars for May 9th!
The current CEO of Sojourners, Adam Russell Taylor, is coming to Bellingham and will speak in the FCCB sanctuary on the evening of May 9. His book A More Perfect Union has just come out in paperback. Adam Russell Taylor grew up for a little while in Bellingham. GSUMC is co hosting this event with First Congregational UCC and Christ the Servant Lutheran Church.
Coming up next week we have:
Wednesday (03/26)
Men’s Breakfast - 7:00 am at Avenue Bread on James Street
Intergenerational Orchestra - 5:00pm - email dallas@gardenstreetumc.org for more information
Saturday (3/29)
Intergenerational Orchestra - 9:00am - email dallas@gardenstreetumc.org for more information
Sunday (03/30)
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.
Prayers
Please Pray for:
Alex, that their move to Seattle is good. And that their Friends and Found Family are safe and get housing.
Can’t make it in person? View the live on YouTube!
