MARCH EVENTS @ 2BC Ash Wednesday March 1, 2017 Lent Our Holy Week Lunch speaker this year is Dr. Alicia Britt Chole. She is a writer, a speaker, a mentor, wife and mother who lives in southern Missouri. Check out her website at www.aliciachole.com. The lunch is April 12 with the food service line opening at 11:30 this year. Tickets for the church family will go on sale March 1. Tickets for the community will go on sale March 15. All tickets are $10. Parents of special needs children, please take advantage of the opportunity to have a second cup of tea with Alicia following the lunch. This is an area of personal interest and passion for her also. Please RSVP to this on or after March 1. Our church-wide Lenten devotional read this year is one of Alicia’s books, 40 Days of Decrease. You can order your own copy or we will have them available for purchase in the church office in mid to late February. Here’s a description of the experience of 40 Days of Decrease: We ache deep within to meaningfully honor Christ’s resurrection. Yet, in practice, this focal point in the liturgical calendar is often a celebration of public holiday more than it is of humanity’s hope. At day’s end, we fall asleep well-fed and perhaps even grateful, yet still somehow something short of awed. Enduring awe is rarely the fruit of a morning’s celebration. Enduring awe is the fruit of daily participation with Jesus, our resurrected love. 40 Days of Decrease invites readers to walk with Jesus through the holy decrease of less and loss that led Him cross-ward and beyond. Each day offers a meaningful consideration of Jesus’ journey through reading and reflection and then issues a challenging daily fast. Instead of social media, chocolate, and designer coffee, 40 Days of Decrease calls communities to a Lenten fasting of apathy, injustice, resentment, hypocrisy, and more for the love of God… Decrease is holy when it’s destination is love. We thin our lives to thicken our communion with God. (Backcover of 40 Days of Decrease).
Hospitality: Opening Our Lives
This will be a very special Lenten season as we participate in this reading and hear Alicia speak during Holy Week. Evensong Wednesdays March 8 - 29 Book and a Buck 2BC will be collecting Christian books and Bibles to help fill a developing seminary library abroad. The goal is to collect one ton of “church” books along with the money necessary to ship the books to the seminary. Watch for collection spots beginning in March and ending in July. Cookies for Our Community Outreach This spring, we will step outside the doors of 2BC to actually do just that! Watch for more information on the Cookies for our Community outreach, but for now, keep Saturday, March 4 open on your calendar.
STUDENTS Disciple Now Dates: March 10 - 12 Location: 2BC and around Liberty
Lock-In Rescheduled: March 31 - April 1 New Date: March 31 - April 1 Look for more info and a sign-up as we get closer to the date. For those of you who signed up and paid already you can either receive a refund or use the payment for the new Lock-In date
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