Lent week 6 (April 6)

Lent week 6 (April 6)

This is our final night of mentoring! Do you want to make plans to meet in the future? 

Holy week schedule:

Sunday April 10th, Palm Sunday worship 9:30am
We do not meet Wednesday April 13th
Maundy Thursday April 14 worship at 7pm 
Good Friday April 15 worship at 7pm. 
Easter Sunday, April 17 services are at 9:00 & 10:30am. You are most certainly welcome to join us for the great Easter celebration! 


1. Share your highs & lows!


2. Discussion Guide - If it's nice enough out for you, consider going for a walk outside today as you talk. Or plan to before or after and take note of the signs of spring you see!

- Do you ever make countdowns? What do you countdown to? 

- What is your favorite season? What do you like about it? What do you notice that time of year? 

- How do you feel at the change of seasons? 

- Who are some people/what ware some things you treasure? 

- Have you lost anyone or anything mentioned above? (Acknowledge that loss, I'm so sorry). How did you respond? 

- As we are yearning/hoping/experiencing coming out of the pandemic. What signs of new life do you see? Is there anything from life before that you might be trying to hold on to? 

- Think about Noah & the ark...After the flood, the ark, which for Noah's family had come to represent safety, security and home, now had to be left behind. How might they have felt, finally stepping out onto land again? 

     We have trouble leaving things we have valued, or that have helped us feel safe behind to move in new directions. Can you think of a time you have experienced something similar? Or might in the future? 


 Scripture reading - Genesis excerpts.

6:7-8 So the Lord said, “I will blot out from the earth the human beings I have created—people together with animals and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”  But Noah found favor in the sight of the Lord.

8: 21-22 And when the Lord smelled the pleasing odor, the Lord said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of humankind, for the inclination of the human heart is evil from youth; nor will I ever again destroy every living creature as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.”


    Reflect: 
        - In your own words, what do you think these verses are saying? 
        - What questions does it raise for you?
        - Draw or talk about examples of new life coming after a death/loss...
     


*Prayer time – Pray for each other’s highs & lows and the following new piece, 
          Dear God, thank you for (highs). Please be with us in the midst of (lows). Thank you for bringing new life out of death. 

          Amen.


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