Lenten Services 2009
The McCall Community
Congregational Church, a United Church of Christ will celebrate
the Lenten Season with a Service of Ashes on this Sunday, March
1st, during worship Communion will be served and then
the receiving of ashes. God is here to remind us that as we
travel from ashes to ashes and dust to dust, God holds that dust
in loving hands and breathes Spirit into us, creating, shaping
and renewing us at every moment. The church is located at First
and Park Street and everyone is invited to attend these special
services.
Our Lenten Suppers of soup
and bread will begin on March 4th at 5:30 at the
church fellowship hall. We begin with a simple meal and then
have a time of study; this year we are learning about “People
Around the World.”
March 4th our
presenter will be Tamara Kam, who will share with us her studies
on Medieval Studies. Tamara earned her Master’s Degree in
English Language and Literature at Oxford University, England.
She then went on to be lecturer in the Medieval Studies
Department at the Central European University in Budapest,
Hungary. From there she took up a post at the University of
Cape Town, South Africa, where she taught Medieval Literature,
including Medieval Mystics and Women Writers of the Middle
Ages. Tamara now lives in McCall with her husband and three
children and works as an Educator for the McCall Memorial
Hospital.
On March 11th,
Richard and Katherine Coonts will be sharing about “A Day in the
Life of a person living in Morocco. Richard spent three years
living in Morocco, a country on the Northwest Coast of Africa.
Richard and Katherine will also share with us some of the
interesting food eaten daily in Morocco.
On Wednesday, March 18th
Scott and Bev. Pressman will be sharing their adventures of
Traveling Around the World, using public transportation or
riding on their constant companions, their collapsible bicycles.
They will share their daily lives with the interesting people
they met as they traveled.
March 25th,
Pete and Norma Walker will share what they have learned of other
cultures. They lived for three weeks with Carolyn James and her
extended family in Itarsi, India. The Walkers became involved
with a Hindu wedding, met Muslim shamans and Hindu priests among
their many experiences.
April 1st we
will see a travel log of Ron and Pauline Hines’ trip to Africa.
Ron has put together slides and a very interesting commentary of
this exciting and interesting trip.
The community is invited
to share in these simple meals and then enjoy our studies of
other peoples around our world. Our world is becoming smaller
and smaller and it is important that we learn to understand
other cultures. For more information call the church office at
634-5430
