Adult Faith Formation

Still Waters:  March 14, 2026

Still Waters Fellowship takes place around a good meal and the exploration of one or more of the traditional practices that can help us grow in our relationship to God. All are welcome! RSVPs are encouraged in the interest of meal planning.

Our next gathering will be on Saturday, March 14, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the home of Roger Parker. For more information or to RSVP to Roger, click on the link below.

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Bible Study:  Lent 2026

We meet every Wednesday at 11:15 a.m. in the church library.  

Anyone is free to drop in for a taste of the joy that we share in our prayer, meditation, scripture, and Christian community.

Some new revelations concerning The Plan of God.

This is the topic for Wednesday Bible Study during Lent:  From before time began God has had a plan - that humankind will share God's life in God's Kingdom. There is such a wealth of wisdom that we can explore and find great depth of meaning. Instead of focusing on a book of scripture for however long that book takes we are bouncing around to find particular topics and look at scripture in a way that is new to us. There have been many questions and challenges to explore.

Why is there sin in the world? Evil? What do Adam and Eve and their story have to do with us and what do we learn from them? Did God create sin and evil? Is Redemption necessary? Does God punish us? Our conversations have been brisk and loaded with thought. We have come to understand more about the value of conversational meditation. It is all a critical tool for spiritual growth. The goal is not teaching nor learning. It is feeding and living scripture. It is growing in faith and nurturing our lives in God.

Lenten Compline

Join us by Zoom on Tuesdays at 7:30, beginning March 3.

Compline is the service for evening and part of the Daily Office. The Office is an ancient practice of the church and developed into our Book of Common Prayer after the Reformation. For centuries these prayers were used in churches, monasteries, homes and by individual worshipers. There will be prayer sheets available through email for your use in compline or on meditations during the rest of each week. The services will last about 30 minutes.

These will be times of quiet spaces and one voice will read each prayers with volunteers to pray one or more sessions. I (Kathie) will start us off. If you would like to participate just let me know. Scripture, poetry, anything interesting to us will be in sections broken up by the silence. One particular focus will be on the Last Words of Christ.

For millennia Lent has been a time of renewal, penitence, self-examination, self-denial, leading to forgiveness, redemption, and renewal in Christ. These actions work their best when in community. You will always be welcome.

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Psalm of the week for March 12: Psalm 130, De profundis (out of the depths)

"Out of the depths have I called to you, O Lord". Times will come when we are lightening struck into a place and time of darkness with no preparation, no foundation, no apparent cause, an impossibility of thought. "I wait for the Lord my soul waits for him in his word is my hope."

"O Israel, wait for the Lord, for with the Lord is mercy."

The psalm is prayed by a voice from the depths, whatever that means. The sea? The darkness? The psalmist has been plunged into some place where nothing can be borne. The call is to wait for the Lord for there is where mercy dwells. There is war in our world accompanied by bursting of bombs, injury, murder, loss - terrible loss - fear, hopelessness, hunger, and cosmic madness. There are singular tragedies and tragedies uncountable and uncounted. In all there are questions of rightness spoiled.

"In his word is my hope." That is all we have. Only the hope matters. It is the trust found only in faith in the God who IS mercy and where our weak and human hands are held. In life there is much to bear but always, "in his word is my hope" and often that hope means healing.

130 has only 7 verses but deserves time to think about each of them. Where does your mind go with these words and where is your heart? Where is the healing? We know that God is Love. We know that God's promises prevail.

I encourage you to dive into this writing. Take time with it. Read it aloud, slow verse by slow verse. Pause between them. You will be rewarded. That is a promise.
Kathie S.