Join us as we begin our Lenten Journey to the cross this Sunday.  Lenten devotionals and key tags will be available from the ushers.  The Upper Room and Alive Now devotionals for March/April are in the pew racks.  Please take and read daily.

Pastor will be speaking from Luke 4:1-13.

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The Unity Dinner is 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church.  The theme is “God’s Helping Hands”.  With this in mind there will be an opportunity to donate to disaster relief for the people of Haiti.  The dinner menu will be roast pork, stuffing, and string beans.  Our church is providing bread pudding for dessert.  Please see Janice Piccirilli to reserve your seat ($5 P/P).  Reservations must be made by Sunday.

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The Lenten Lunches begin the next Wednesday, March 3.  The schedule is:

March 3 – United Methodist Church at Absecon

            March 10 – Reformation Lutheran Church

            March 17 – St Mark’s and All Saints Episcopal Church

            March 24 – Presbyterian Church at Absecon

Each Wednesday we will meet for worship at noon.  Lunch will begin immediately after worship.  Join us for a time of ecumenical worship and fellowship with our sister churches.

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Please remember in prayer ~

Betty Minter - hospitalized

Eddie Haldeman

Jim & Pattie Morris and Kay McMillan & Family - mourning

Ruth Champion

Ruth Bird

Grace Gras

Janice Piccirilli’s father, Joe - hospitalized

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Dante's View

In Death Valley there is a place known as Dante's View. There, you can look down to the lowest spot in the United States, a depression in the earth 200 feet below sea level called Bad Water. But from that same spot, you can also look up to the highest peak in the United States, Mount Whitney, rising to a height of 14,500 feet. One way leads to the lowest and the other way to the highest. From that point, called Dante's View,
any movement must be in one or the other direction.

There are many times in life when we stand where the ways part and where choices must be made. It is often easier to trip along downhill than to walk the steady, or maybe rocky, uphill path. But the path uphill leads to a cross -- an empty cross. And the one that walks beside us is the one who hung there and defeated it.

Glenn E. Ludwig, Walking To…Walking With …Walking Through…, CSS Publishing Company

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This Week in Our Church . . .

Sunday                       

              8:45 Breakfast

              9:30 Sunday School & Worship

            10:45 Refreshments

            11:00 Worship & A2J

              4:00 New Members’ Class

              7:00 “God Heard Their Cry” Study

Monday

              1:30 Bible Study

              6:00 Senior Youth

Tuesday

              7:00 Property Committee

Wednesday     

            12:00 Evergreens

              6:30 Unity Dinner at St. Elizabeth’s

Thursday        

            12:00 Serve at Sister Jean’s

              6:30 Handbell Choir Rehearsal

              7:45 Chancel Choir Rehearsal

Friday

Saturday

              9:30 Worship/Visioning Joint Meeting

              6:00 Prime-Timers

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Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. - I Corinthians 13:7

 

The Presbyterian Church at Absecon
208 New Jersey Avenue
Absecon, New Jersey 08201

www.abseconpresby.org