Feb12

This year, for the first time in our history, River Oaks will celebrate several traditional services and themes of the Lent Season. We will begin with an Ash Wednesday service on February 17 at 6:30pm. The elements of this service will consist of corporate prayers, Scripture readings, meditation, the imposition of ashes (placing a small amount of ash on each worshiper’s forehead as a sign of repentance and sorrow for sin) and Communion.

For those of you in the River Oaks family, and for anyone in the Elkhart/Goshen area whose church is not offering an Ash Wednesday Service, I would like to invite you to the River Oaks Ash Wednesday service. To help us adequately prepare for this service, we are asking everyone to register the number of people (3rd grade and older) who plan to attend this service as well as the number of children, 2nd grade and younger, who will require childcare. If you are not from this area, perhaps you will be able to find another church that is offering an Ash Wednesday service.

Ash Wednesday has been observed by millions of Christians for centuries in order to prepare themselves for the celebration of Easter. I want to encourage you to join your brothers and sisters in this important and meaningful act of repentance and worship.

Tim