Author: Sharon Springs UMC

February 2025

Sharon Springs Methodist Church 520 W. 6th Ave., P.O. Box 339 Sharon Springs, KS 67758

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
						1 Men’s Pancake Day 7:00—1:30
2 / Communion	3	4	SSMW 1:15 / Children’s Choir 3:30 Bell Choir Practice 5:00	6 / Prairie Village Adult Bible Study 10:15	7	8
9 Children’s Choir Sings Basket Dinner following Church Service / Ministerial Council Mtg 3:00 p.m.	10	11	12 / Children’s Choir 3:30 Bell Choir Practice 5:00	13 / Prairie Village Adult Bible Study 10:15	14	15
16 / Adm Co Mtg following Church Service	17 / Girl Scouts 5:15—7:15	18	19 / Children’s Choir 3:30 Bell Choir Practice 5:00	20 / Prairie Village Adult Bible Study 10:15	21	22
23	24	25	26 / Children’s Choir 3:30 Bell Choir Practice 5:00	27 / Prairie Village Adult Bible Study 10:15	28

GOD’S WILL FOR US
Just to be tender, just to be true; Just to be glad the whole day through; Just to be merciful, just to be mild; Just to be trustful as a child; Just to be gentle and kind and sweet; Just to be helpful with willing feet; Just to be cheery when things go wrong: Just to drive sadness away with a song, Whether the hour is dark or bright; Just to be loyal to God and right; Just to believe that God knows best; Just in His promise ever to rest: Just to let love be our daily key: This is God’s will, for you and me. ——-Anonymous From Tapestries of Life

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Ash Wednesday, March 5th
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The first day of Lent. It marks the beginning of a period of reflection and penance. In the Bible, sprinkling oneself with ashes was traditionally a sign of one’s sorrow for having committed sins. In the Christian tradition, Ash Wednesday also marked the beginning of preparation for the understanding of the death and resurrection of Christ. The particular symbolism of ashes for this day comes from a practice in the Roman Catholic churches in which the ashes from the palms used in the preceding year’s Palm Sunday celebration are blessed. With these ashes, the priest on the first day of Lent marks a cross on the forehead of each worshiper. This practice has become a part of Ash Wednesday services in many Methodist churches.

TO TELL THE TRUTH
To prepare for a sermon on honesty, a pastor asked church members to read Joshua 25. The next week, he asked, “How many of you read it?” Half the hands in the church went up.
“Great,” the pastor said. “You’re the ones I want to talk to—because Joshua has only 24 chapters.”
—Charles Swindoll

WELCOME TO OUR NEW PASTOR
We are pleased to announce our new Pastor and family will begin their new journey in Sharon Springs on Sunday March 2. Pastor Zac Rokovasa Vakadewatabua and his wife Shawna have 2 children, Hadassah 11 months and newborn Hezekiah.
Pastor Zac is from Figi and has been serving as youth Pastor in Clay Center, Kansas. He is also very involved with Operation Christmas Child. Shawna is from a small town in South Dakota and knows what life in a small town is like.
They will be moving into the Parsonage with the help of the congregation during February.
Please mark your calendars and plan to welcome them at a Basket Dinner following the service on Sunday, March 2.

Groundhog Pancake Day
February 1, 2025 — UM Men
Groundhog and Pancake Day
Serving from 7:A.M. — 1:30 P.M.
Here at SSMC Fellowship Hall

SERVICE COMMITTEE FOR FEBRUARY
(Church Dinners)
Kim Van Laeys, Chairman Lois Pearce Phyllis Finley