Hello Brothers and Sisters in Christ!

       Welcome to the Pastor’s Post! This will be a weekly enews where I will be sharing what’s going on and what may be coming up soon!

Worship:

I wanted to let the congregation know that this Sunday you will see some additional changes in the praise bulletin for worship. We are transitioning to just printing the lyrics instead of the entire sheet music. This saves us both paper and ink. We hope this transition will be a permanent thing. We hope to eventually transition to putting the lyrics on the screen within the next few months.

Lent is just a few weeks away. We will be offering a morning option for Wednesday services at 11am as well as the normal evening option at 730pm with Soup and Salad offered prior to the evening worship. More information will be shared soon.

For Ash Wednesday, February 22nd, I will be offering "Drive By" Ashes from 7am-9am in the lower parking lot for those who would like to receive ashes and prayer before work. We will also have a 11am service and a 730pm service with soup and salad prior to the 730 service.

Pastoral Care:

      I just wanted to let you know that we have modified the prayer request button on the website. Now when someone clicks on the button, a Google form will open for additional information to be filled out. One of the new items will include an option to request a pastor call. There will also be an option to send me an email directly. This is in an effort to ensure I have all the necessary information to contact members, family members of members or guest which would like to contact me directly. My intent is to ensure I contact all those who wish to see or hear from me.

Congregational Care (In Reach)

Thanks to all who responded about the chair yoga and tai chi. Based on the feedback, both initiatives will not be initiated at this time. Perhaps we will revisit both sometime at a later date.

In the meantime, if anyone is interested in assisting in bringing communion to our shut ins, please let me know. There is a link to my email below.

Outreach

Nothing to report this week. I will be meeting with the committee at their next meeting.

Together, it is my hope that we continue to be called, gathered and blessed to be

a community and instrument of grace for all

sheep of the Good Shepherd.

Always a servant of Christ,

Pastor Rosy <><