Hello Pilgrim on the Lenten Journey!

Hello Pilgrim on the Lenten Journey!

Join us on a Jesus Journey. Walk with me, walk with Jesus, walk with fellow brothers and sisters as we take a deep look at the last 24 hours of Jesus's life. One of my favorite TV shows was 24. It was exciting to see what could happen in a 24 hour period. It was good TV, but these 24 hours changed our world and can change your life too. All you need to do is to come to worship each Sunday in Lent. That is just to get the highlights. If you want to go deeper, then read the daily devotional, get into a small group and commit to daily prayer, study and application.

This week we will look at the connection between the Jewish Seder Meal and the Last Supper. Take a moment and read Mark 14:12-25 before Sunday. The Last Supper of Jesus is a little meal that changes everything. The Last Supper is a time for grace when we "see" and we know in our own experience who Jesus is, a moment when we know ourselves as Judas or Peter or the others on that night, a time when our souls are stretched to eternity and back with hope. At the Table of our Lord, ordinary life is transformed.

I invite you to the Table this Sunday.

In Jesus,

Barry



PS Last Sunday was the Consecration Service at Emmorton Elementary school. Here are two pictures taken by Jim Schepers.

The Vine Consecration Service
Emmorton Elementary School
March 6, 2011

Stan & Michelle serve communion

A Beginning and an Ending?

This week I was blessed by a beginning and an ending.

This past Sunday, over 30 families were commissioned by our laying on of hands, prayer and blessing as they move out of the walls of Bel Air UMC and into the community of Abingdon to Emmorton Elementary School. It was a powerful and touching experience for all of us as we saw, not the end of our goal to start a new ministry and worship service in Abingdon, but a huge first step into fulfilling the mission of our church " to make disciples of Jesus Christ, as we show all people the way to the Father, teach them to know the Son, Jesus Christ, and prepare them to grow in faith and ministry, empowered by the Holy Spirit."

Praying for The Vine at 9:20 Service

I invite you to "drop by" Emmorton Elementary

this Sunday from 10-12. The Vine team will be there to welcome you and you can join in a brief consecration and communion service. They will happen every 30 minutes, starting at 10AM. I will be dropping in between the 920 and 11 service.

Praying for The Vine at 11 Service, Photo by Jim Schepers

 

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