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  • Kids Korner: Lent III – Woman at the well (March 8th)

    Read John 4:5-42 with your family. This week we meet a woman at a well. She isn’t famous, and we don’t even know her name, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t important! Jesus talks with her in a way that surprises everyone: he listens, asks questions, and invites her into something bigger than she’s seen…

  • Lenten Study 2026 – Week 2

    Week Two: Learning and Living the Faith Acts 4 gives us additional glimpses into the first communities of Christian believers in Jerusalem. Other letters and documents written around that time and later give us insight into how communities grew, how they worked and learned together, and what was expected of new converts to early Christianity.…

  • Sunday Reflection – Lent II, March 1, 2026

    Born Anew John 3 Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2 He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with that person.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Very…

  • Kids Korner: Lent II – Nicodemus (March 1st)

    Read John 3:1-17 with your family. This week we meet Nicodemus. He was a Pharisee, which meant he worked at the Temple in Jerusalem and he was surrounded by others who looked at Jesus with a great deal of suspicion and anger. However, Nicodemus was curious. He wanted to understand what Jesus was talking about.…

  • Lenten Study 2026 – Week 1

    Week One: Before There Were Walls This week we asked a slightly dangerous question: What did church look like before it had buildings, budgets, and bulletins? Acts 2 gives us a glimpse – people devoted to teaching, eating together, praying, sharing resources, and actually knowing one another. It wasn’t polished. It wasn’t scheduled into neat 60…

  • Sunday Reflection – Lent I, February 22, 2026

    Saying No Matthew Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tested by the devil. 2 He fasted forty days and forty nights, and afterward he was famished. 3 The tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4 But he answered, “It…

  • Kids Korner: Lent I (February 22nd)

    Read Matthew 4:1-11 with your family. This week we heard the story about Jesus going into the wilderness – which was really more like a hot, dusty desert – to be alone with God. Sometimes when something important is about to begin, we need quiet. We need space. We need to think and pray and…

  • Journey to Jerusalem

    A modern family-friendly activity book with 60 pages full of actions, crafts, and more to help children and teens engage with the Lenten Season. . For a taste of what can be found inside:

  • Ash Wednesday Reflection – February 18, 2026

      How To Guide to Faithful Living Matthew 6  When you do good deeds, don’t try to show off. If you do, you won’t get a reward from your Father in heaven. 2 When you give to the poor, don’t blow a loud horn. That’s what show-offs do in the synagogues and on the street corners, because…

  • Sunday Reflection – Transfiguration Sunday, February 15, 2026

    A Vision Matthew 17 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John and led them up a high mountain, by themselves. 2 And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became bright as light. 3 Suddenly there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. 4 Then…