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2013 Lenten Services

To enhance your worship experience, learn more about the season of Lent here.

Ash Wednesday Service:

Wednesday,  February 13,  7:00 pm
Holy Communion distributed at this service

Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent. On this day, Christians focus on their complete sinfulness and the necessity of Christ's suffering and death to insure their salvation.

Like many fellow Christians throughout the world, Emmanuel has had a long tradition of the imposition of ashes at this service. Ashes are referred to many times in the Old Testament as signs of sorrow, mourning, humility, and repentance, and on Ash Wednesday they are used to remind people of their mortality -- that “you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19). In this custom, ashes are mixed with a small amount of oil and applied to the forehead of each worshipper.

Lenten Service:

WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, 7:00 pm
February 20, 27; March 6, 13, 20
No communion; No child care

The theme and subjects of each service will be published at a later date.

Lenten Dinners:

WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, 5:30 pm
February 20, 27; March 6, 13, 20

Church groups and organizations offer an opportunity for fellowship by sponsoring dinners before each service (with the exception of Ash Wednesday). Dinners are served between 5:30 and 6:30; there is a nominal charge to defray costs and/or fund raise for the sponsoring /preparing group.

“Yet even now, says the LORD,
return to me with all your heart,
with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
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 he relents from punishing.
Joel 2:12-13 NRSV