Ash Wednesday
March 5, 2025A treasured United Methodist hymn begins, “Sunday’s palms are Wednesday’s Ashes.” On Ash Wednesday, we use ashes made from the previous year’s palms from Palm Sunday as a material means of confronting our own mortality and confessing our sin before God within the community of faith in light of God’s redeeming love in Jesus Christ.
Walk-Up Ashes
7:00-9:30 am and 4:30-6:00 pm.
Sidewalk in front of Norwood Entrance
Our ministry team will offer ashes and prayer in front of the Norwood entrance to any who would like to receive them. Please park and walk up.
Worship Service
6:30 pm, Room 200
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Pastor Mitzi Johnson, preaching
In this solemn, peaceful service we are invited to observe a holy Lent by self–examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and self–denial; and by reading and meditating on God’s Holy Word. To make a right beginning of repentance and as a mark of our mortal nature, we gather for prayer, word, song, and the imposition of ashes.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.” — Psalm 51:10-12