To everyone who sent cards to me this Christmas and my birthday, thank you. I cannot begin to tell you how much I have appreciated receiving and reading them. I am really humbled.

The fourteenth is a day we had best not forget as we celebrate Valentine’s Day. It is a celebration of love, making it a natural Christian holiday. The sixteenth brings us President’s Day—a day for praying for those leading our country, both past and present. On the eighteenth, we will have our Ash Wednesday service to start the season of Lent.

 Ash Wednesday will also mark the beginning of our Lenten sermon series Mercy, Passion, and Joy which will also coincide with our devotional book of the same name. The devotional pamphlet will be available Ash Wednesday and all through the first weeks of Lent.

For those on one of our church leadership teams, check this newsletter to find out when you meet and then come. Doing the work of the Lord can be fun and is definitely rewarding.

Hope to see you in church. Hope you tell someone who doesn’t know about First United Methodist about us. Spread the good news.

  Yours in Christ,

  Pastor Mark