Lent is a season to pause, reflect, and remember Jesus’s journey to the cross, from Ash Wednesday to the grave. Read on for more information and resources for this holy time.

Ash Wednesday

Our Ash Wednesday service takes place on March 5, 2025 at 6:30pm. It is a solemn time of repentance and reflection where we turn our hearts to God and hear the echoes, “Dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”

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Lenten Artwork

This year, we are invited to walk through this season visually with the work of artist Jan Richardson. Below are her images and some questions to help guide our reflections.

Questions to Ponder

OBSERVE: What first catches your eye about this piece? What emotions or memories do these colors stir in you? Take your time!

REFLECT: How do you think the idea of Lent connects with these pieces?

APPLY: How might God be speaking to you through these reflections? As we sit in this Lenten season, how might the practice of reflection and seeing slowly through artwork deepen your faith?

For more reflections, you can visit Jan Richardson’s blog, paintedprayerbook.com. All images © Jan Richardson, janrichardson.com.

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Lenten Prayer

“I Cannot Do This Alone”

Adapted from a prayer by Dietrich Boenhoffer

Jesus, early in the morning I cry to you.

Help me to pray and to concentrate my thoughts on you;

I cannot do this alone. Jesus, walk with me.

In me there is darkness, but you are the light of the world.

I am lonely, but you do not leave me nor forsake me.

I am feeble in heart, but you are my help.

I am restless, but you are my peace.

In me there is bitterness, but you show me the way of patience;

I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me….

Restore me to your freedom and abundant life.

Jesus, whatever this day may bring, Your name be praised.

Amen.

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Holy Week

If the Christian Calendar with all its holy days and seasons – Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost – is about an annual retelling, remembering and participating in the story of Jesus, then the events of Holy Week serve as a climactic moment in the story that is being told.

Throughout this week, we invite you to enter the story through reading Scripture, prayer and worshipping with us as we walk with Jesus and alongside his disciples. Our times of worship will reflect on a meal shared in love, betrayal in a garden, Christ’s death on the cross, the darkness of confusion and loss, and the great hope of resurrection life dawning.

This story is so big and so good that we need help entering into it and we hope our worship services this week will help you do that. You can learn more about them below.