Two Opportunities

for Lenten Devotion

• A six-week intentional prayer emphasis, both online and in-person opportunities to pray for our neighborhood, congregation, lay leaders, staff members, and pastors

• A book study (both in person and online) of Thank God It's Friday, Encountering the Seven Last from the Cross by William H. Willimon … please order your book online so you will have it for our first meeting in early March.

Details to follow via e-mail!

Delegation headed to Guatemala

March 1 - 9, 2023

Pray for our delegation as we prepare to travel to Guatemala.

Pastor Stephen Friedrich from Peace Lutheran is leading a group that includes Val Taylor and Nancy and Jim Friedrich from St. John’s Lutheran Knoxville; our own Pastor Robin Lovett-Owens from Christ Lutheran in Nashville; four members of Peace Lutheran; and one member from Epiphany Lutheran Suwannee, GA. This trip is focused on building relationships and accompaniment with the Lutheran Church in Guatemala (ILAG). During the trip, they will worship, study the bible, sing, visit the MILAGRO Women's Center, visit the Lutheran Elementary School, learn about Guatemalan culture, and spend time together with Pr. Karen Castillo, Diego Gil, and other leaders in ILAG.

More information will be shared in the coming weeks and following the trip.

March 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29

6:00 to 7:00 PM

Sparks Fellowship Hall

Wednesdays during Lent, as a way to emphasize the connection between shared meals and Communion, we will have Abbey Dinners, an informal meal with table conversation around scripture and Communion all rolled into the meal, starting at 6:00 and ending at 7:00 (in time for kids’ bedtimes and choir rehearsal).There will be singing and toys available for our little ones. Mostly though, there will be shared food, conversation, prayer, and Communion!

Where’s the name come from? The earliest church met in homes, sharing a full meal and blessing part of it the bread and wine as Communion. In later centuries, as life got more complicated, some sought a simpler life, eventually forming abbeys, shared homes with a life grounded in prayer, shared meals, shared service in the world, and Communion.

Life is complicated now, too.Abbey Dinners are a way of going spiritually back to the basics.