PCUMC: February 2009

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Ash Wednesday Service
Feb. 25th, 6:00pm @ Presley Chapel UMC

Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the church season called Lent. “Lent” is an old English word for spring, and it designates a 40-day period before Easter (excluding Sundays) where Christians are invited to strengthen their life-giving connection to the Risen Christ through taking up a special spiritual practice or giving up something in order to jolt us out of our routine and awaken us to deeper levels of awareness of God’s sacrificial love for us. At the service the churches will be challenged with a church-wide spiritual practice.

The service will be brief (about 30 minutes), and will involve the invitation for you to come forward and have your forehead marked with ashes in the sign of the cross. Ashes in the Bible represent repentance and mortality. This act of worship is a way of centering our lives on the love of God that conquers sin and death.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Valentine's Day Party

Presley Chapel will be having a Valentine's Day Party tonight for "kids of all ages." The party will start at 6:00 p.m. Please bring fingerfoods.

It began as a simple wood frame church building that served as a place of worship and fellowship for the people that lived in this rural area of Arkansas. Located on a hill overlooking a neighboring pasture, all who came through this community were struck by this majestic symbol of the reign of Jesus Christ. For seventy four years this one room, white church building served as refuse for all who came wanting to hear the message of Jesus Christ proclaimed. And proclaimed it was, through revivals that would last all day long and "sing'ins" that would take them into the early hours of the evening.