Kingston United Methodist Church
"feed more sheep"
JOIN US IN WELCOMING Jessica Winderweedle and Werner Ramirez as our new ministers on February 21st for a Potluck in between the two services!
If you are able, please bring a dish to share. The Potluck will begin around 10:10 and wrap up before the second service - around 10:55. We hope that you will stay a little later or come a little early to either service you attend and help us officially welcome Jess and Werner.
Please join us for Ash Wednesday on February 10th. This is a day of dual encounter: we confront our own mortality and we confess our sin before God within the community of faith. Services with an imposition of ashes are at 7am and 7pm.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season in the church year known as Lent. Lent began as a period of forty days of fasting before Easter developed not long after the Council of Nicaea in 325. Lent evolved as the final preparation for those who were to be baptized into faith on Easter Sunday. While the current understanding of Lent has become almost entirely about the Christian community’s preparation for Holy Week and Easter, the theme of baptism is still very much a part of the season. Lent is a reminder of our baptism. In Romans 6:3-4, the Apostle Paul says through our baptism we have died with Christ, so that we may be raised with him in his resurrection. Lent is a reminder that in our baptism we have journeyed with Christ in dying to our old life, and we have been transformed to new life through being raised with Christ. Lent is ultimately about journeying with Christ to transformation.
Learn more about Ash Wednesday and Lent from The United Methodist Church.
On Sunday, February 7th Kingston United Methodist will be celebrating their 138th birthday!
In celebration of this milestone, all are invited to join in a special reception during the 10am fellowship hour. For those who attend the 9am service, please stay late. For our 11am attenders, please come early.
We may be old, but we still love to party.