View this email in your browser A Midweek MessageFebruary 10, 2021 Hello Everyone at St. Paul,This week we begin our Lenten Journey with Ash Wednesday and a message from Larry Baker. Blessings on your Lenten Journey this year and thank you Larry Baker for sharing this message with us this week. -In Peace Rev. Aaron Baughman (interim pastor) IMPORTANT UPCOMING WORSHIP INFORMATION!TONIGHT! Ash Wednesday ZOOM Worship February 17, 2021 Join us for a very special Ash Wednesday ZOOM worship at 7:00PM. Follow the link from your email. If you happen to miss the worship, the ZOOM worship will be posted on our channel so you can watch it at anytime. IN PERSON SUNDAY WORSHIP RETURNS February 21, 2021 Starting Sunday February 21, the first week of Lent, we will be returning to in person worship. If you do not feel comfortable joining us in person, we will continue to live stream our services. Please remember that all social distancing guidelines still apply. Please wear a mask and sit in only the open pews. Please no congregating before or after services. We look forward to seeing you in person starting February 21! IN PERSON MIDWEEK WORSHIP begins February 24, 2021 Same social distancing guidelines apply as to our sunday worship. Join us for in person midweek service at 7PM. You are also welcome to join us via our live stream.  Thank you to everyone who donated to the SOUPERbowl! LSS Food Pantry donation was 175 pounds but we counted about 400 cans. Please convey our thanks to all. This year the process was more difficult and some members even brought cans to our home. It was a SUPER effort by all and LSS Food Pantry is appreciative“Yet even now, says the Lord, return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; rend your hearts and not your clothing. Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing. “ -An excerpt from Joel 2  Ash WednesdayLent begins with Ash Wednesday and here I sit knowing I will not get ashes! No ashes on Wednesday is like no pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. So yes, Lent is a little different this year. Yet the ashes are there. Reminders of our sin and errant ways are all around us. Ashes of the pandemic, ashes of racial strife, ashes of political radicals and certainly, ashes of death. Perhaps I can go without another reminder that – you are dust and to dust you shall return. Maybe this Lent will indeed have us “return to the Lord”. Maybe this Lent will remind us why we fast. Maybe this Lent we will rend our hearts and look ahead to that day that we are so aptly reminded that God IS gracious and merciful. Have a safe and sincere journey to the cross. – Larry Baker Pastor Larry Baker: St. Matthew Lutheran (ELCA), Lockbourne, Hilltop Lutheran (ELCA); Hospice chaplain, Fire Chaplain x 3. Served USAF. Married to Becky with two children, two grandchildren and one great granddaughter.  This coming Sunday will be in person and livestream Instructions to watch Live StreamYou don’t have to watch it live. You can watch it anytime during or after the service.You can go to youtube.com and search: “St. Paul Lutheran Church New Rome, OH” You can subscribe and get an email when we are live. It is also posted on our website and Facebook page.Facebook-www.facebook.com/stpaullutherancolumbusohiochurch website: http://stpaulnewrome.comAt-Home Communion for Everyone Would you like to participate in communion from home? St. Paul is now offering at home communion to everyone who is worshiping from home. Simply send an email to Jeanine at jeanine_secretary@sbcglobal.net or call her at 614-563-3230 to sign up communion kits will be blessed by Rev. Aaron before distribution. Be sure to note how many people are in your family. If you are interested in helping with distribution please let us know! |