SAT, Mar 5th – Ukraine vigil. WED, Mar 2nd – Ashes-to-go & Ash Wed service. Lenten devotional resources. Music: Wailin’ Jenny’s field trip & JCC music concert with Alan Labrie. Missions Lenten giving challenge: Raise the Roof for Chikanga Church in Zimbabwe. Lending library. And more!
SATURDAY, March 5th
VIGIL for UKRAINE
- Noon @ Jackson Community Church
- Pray & hold silence with members of the community
- Light candles
- If you cannot attend the gathering, a dedicated prayer space will remain available, with notebook and symbols of Ukraine in the sanctuary, available at any time (doors of church unlocked 24/7)
Reminder: March 2nd – ASH WEDNESDAYASHES-to-GO in Jackson & Glen:
- Receive ashes and a blessing.
- 8-10am: J-Town Deil
- 10:15-11:30am: Autumn Nomad
- Noon-1:30pm: Glen Ledge Deli McSheffreys North
- 2-3:45pm: JCC sanctuary
- 4-6pm: Shannon Door
ASH WEDNESDAY WORSHIP with JCC:
- 7pm @ Jackson Community Church
- Zoom & in-person
- Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/142985761?pwd=T214WDhHRmxoYXE0dWRCNk53SFppQT09
- Or call on touch-tone phone: 929.436.2866,
Meeting ID: 142985761, Password: 603603
JCC Missions Lenten Giving Challenge:RAISING the ROOF
Once all contributions are collected at the end of Lent, funds will go directly to our UKAMA partner Chikanaga Church in Mutare, Zimbabwe to help purchase the final truss and build their church roof.
From Missions: “Our partner church in Zimbabwe is nearing the last stages of completing the roof on the church they are building. It will cost about $26,000 for the last truss plus the roofing materials and supplies and the machinery to erect and complete the roof. The Mission Committee already has $4,600 to send Chikanga Church to help complete the roof.
As a Lenten project, we would like to involve the congregation in helping to raise funds to Raise the Roof. People who choose to participate may:
- Set aside a $1/day (or the cost of a cup of coffee or another luxury) during Lent
- Choose another daily amount to set aside each day.
- Donate a specific amount toward the Raise the Roof project
This money would be added to the funds provided by the Mission Committee and make a big difference to our friends in Zimbabwe.
If you are interested in participating, please track your savings during Lent, or simply make your one-time donation. Give in one of these ways:
- Write a check to the Jackson Community Church and note it is for the Raise the Roof fund.
- Give cash in any amount you feel comfortable, noting on an envelope that it is for the Raise the Roof project.
- Make an online donation via Paypal to the church; visit the jxncc.org to make such an online donation. Again, note that the donation is allocated to Raise the Roof.
Please be sure to include your own name and contact info on any donation envelopes so that church can acknowledge your contribution and provide a charitable donation receipt. Thank you in advance.
MUSIC PROGRAMS
during LENT
Sun, Mar 27 @ 3pm
ALAN LABRIE’s FAREWELL CONCERT on JCC’s organ and piano
Wed, Mar 30 @ 8pm
WAILIN JENNY’s Field Trip @ Stone Mountain Arts Center/SMAC, Denmark, ME.
- Attendees purchase their own tickets: https://stonemountainartscenter.com/Wailin-Jennys.html
- Dinner is available @ SMAC with prior reservations (not included in ticket price)
2022 LENTEN CALENDARS
- 2022 Lenten Countdown Calendar: https://jacksoncommunitychurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/lc2_2022_English2-scaled-1.jpg
- Praying in Color contemplative Lenten calendars:
- Desert Calendar: https://jacksoncommunitychurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Desert-Calendar-20221.pdf
- Lily Calendar: https://jacksoncommunitychurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Lily-Calendar-2022.pdf
- Heart Calendar https://jacksoncommunitychurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Heart-Lent-20221.pdf
- Concentric Circles Calendar: https://jacksoncommunitychurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Concentric-Circles-Lent-2022.pdf
DAILY DEVOTIONALS
for Adults & Families
- Throughout Lent, we will post JCC’s own daily meditation, focused on the journey theme, on the church website (jxncc.org) and JCC Facebook page.
- You may also visit the church’s lending library for books to borrow during Lent. Books are available in two locations: the front door of the church and also in the sanctuary, neat the piano.
2022’s Lenten Daily Devotionals:
- Daily Devotiona – The Sanctuary
- Copies available in front entrance of church.
- Please sign out your copy as we’ll mail copies to people who are out of town or unable to travel to the church.
- This devotional is yours to keep.
- No downloadable version of this devotional is available.
- Illustrated Ministry Devotional ‘God Is Still With Us’
(coloring pages, devotionals, etc as downloadable (PDF) – contact church for link to copyrighted files
Favorites from prior years – contact church for link to copyrighted files
- Daily Devotional: The Sanctuary by April Casperson (PDF)
- Daily Devotional: Poetry of Lent – Mary Oliver published by SALT (PDF)
- Daily Devotional: Poetry of Lent – Wendell Berry published by SALT (PDF)
- Family Devotional for Lent: Illustrated Ministry (coloring pages, devotionals, etc) (PDF)