Niagara Frontier District E-Connection 
March 1, 2019

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The next E-Connection will go out on Friday, March 15

Julie's hours: Mon 9-4; Tues-Thurs 9-1; Fri 9-3

Attachments referenced in the newsletter now have individual links in the section below.

Thought to Ponder - Listen to anything your children want to tell you. If you don't listen to the small stuff now, they won't tell you the big stuff later.

Items to look for:
* Looking for Equalization Members for Annual Conference
* Bishop will host Special Session Follow Up Gatherings
* Healing and Wholeness Retreat

What Is Lent?

Lent is a season of the church when Christians are encouraged to focus more seriously on our faith. Fasting, reading scripture, prayer and examining our ethical life are regular practices we focus on more during Lent. It is based in the number forty, which includes the forty days it rained for Noah, the forty years the Israelites spent in the desert, and the forty days Jesus spent in the wilderness.
 
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and goes through the Saturday before Easter. A clever person will discover that is a period of 46 days. However, since Sundays are days of celebration of the Lord's resurrection, they do not count as days in Lent. So we are back to forty days. (So if you give something up as a fast for Lent, you can break the fast on Sundays since they are not part of Lent.)

Attachments


Newsletter
   
To see the E-Connection as a Word document, click  March 1 word

To see the E-Connection in PDF format, click  March 1 pdf

Niagara Frontier District
of the Upper New York Conference

Rev. Carlos Rosa-Laguer , District Superintendent
Julie Maciejewski, Administrative Assistant
247 Cayuga Road, Suite 70, Cheektowaga, NY 14225
716-276-8631      716-276-8632 fax
www.NiagaraFrontierUNY.org          [email protected]