Lent 2021: Week two, Feb. 28-March 6
The Lord is in our work, home, and schools
WORSHIP
Rev. Neil Dunnavant, Executive Pastor
Second Sunday of Lent, February 28 – Neil Dunnavant preaches, “The Grapes of Wrath and the Ghost of Tom Joad” from Mark 8:31-38.
Color the house (from your kit or print here) and attach it to your garland.
Children’s Church School: The practice of prayer, for families with elementary age children. On Zoom at 9:30 am; link in weekly family email or contact Lisa Witherspoon.
PRAYER WALK
Jill guides blessings for our homes, schools, and work in an audio recording.
PILGRIMAGE
Remember the places you have lived and times you felt God at work in those seasons. Give thanks for the people (and pets!) who shared those spaces with you.
SERVICE
Thank someone in your household for something specific.
Learn about affordable housing, homelessness, employment challenges in Greensboro at the Center for Housing and Community Studies, StepUp Greensboro, or Urban Ministry.
Pray for those experiencing homelessness or unemployment.
SPECIALS
The Rise of Anti-Semitism in America: Rabbi Andy Koren asks “Where Do We Go From Here, Together?” in the last of a two-part webinar, Wednesday at 5:30 pm on Zoom. Contact Yolanda Baxter for link. See part one here.
Life Together: Chapter One video by Matt Logan. Discussion questions here. See Jill Duffield’s introduction. Learn the backstory.
Playlist on Spotify
Family activity calendar for Lent
Closing of “It’s OK not to be OK” series on teen anxiety, Sunday at 7 pm. Registration full; contact Yolanda Baxter if you need the link.
Lisa Witherspoon, associate director of children’s ministry
reflection: Begins & Ends at Home | Lisa Witherspoon
Household, home. Those words have taken on a whole new significance in the past 10 months, haven’t they? When the need to “stay home” first arose in spring 2020, I was not at all upset. Thinking it would surely be a temporary situation, I looked forward to more family time and less busyness. As time wore on, however, we ran out of board games to play, got tired of trying new recipes, and began to feel our patience with each other wearing thin.
Gracious God, thank you for those who set extraordinary examples of faith. Though our households look different and each one experiences particular challenges and blessings, we know You are present within them all. Help us to choose You, Lord, again and again and again. Give us wisdom to guide those we love along a path of faithfulness and courage to accompany strangers we meet along the way. Strengthen and embolden our faith. Shore up the places where our faith is weak. We ask these things in the name of your Holy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.