Join us for online worship this Sunday, March 7, at 10:15 a.m. at https://vimeo.com/channels/1547852.

Today is a communion Sunday. Before joining the worship service, you are invited to assemble what you will eat and what you will drink. It can be bread and grape juice or wine or something as simple as a cracker or rice cake and water for use in our worship.

You can view and download the bulletin here.

The other day I was driving around town, looking at the piles of old snow, noting the markedly erratic driving that seems to accompany these days as people let loose of the caution and restrictions that cold and ice and snow have imposed on us. It occurred to me that we are now living in a pandemic thaw. 

We are weary from all that we’ve been through and all that we are still going through. We are worried about the changes in our lives once more as we start to open up, worried about what the “normal” that we might return to will actually look like. “The good people of Iowa,” as our governor likes to call us, have, like the rest of the nation, succumbed to indifference, apathy, and self-interest. We’ve released our own “inner Neanderthal,” as the president might say.

This Lent, then, we need to let go of indifference that we might live into compassion.

SCRIPTURE LESSONS: Isaiah 49:8-18; Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5

SERMON       “Living into Compassion”

The Rev. Bill Lovin preaching

ANTHEM       “Here, O My Lord”                 Eleanor Daley

                        Avery Nabholz, Wen Chin Liu, Colin Wilson, Josh Ramseyer

No matter who you are or where you are on life’s journey, you are welcome to join us online.