During Lent this year, we are having a prayer vigil in the sanctuary on Saturday, March 24, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM. This will be a wonderful opportunity for you to have a specific place and time to devote to prayer—a traditional Lenten discipline. Prayer is the basis of our relationship with God. It also helps us understand ourselves better and find ways to meet the needs of others in the same way that Jesus did.
Our vigil will include a dozen or more areas where church members will have set up “stations” depicting key mission projects that our congregation is engaged in. For example, a station will include the Gena Tree which serves as a collection spot for donations for The Coalition for the Homeless, The Center for Women and Families and LaCasita.
Other areas will focus on United Crescent Hill Ministries, the French Ministry, mission co-workers and Youth Adult Volunteer Program (YAV), the youth and adult mission trips to Appalachia, and our John Leake Garden and Garden Camp Project.
You will be able to visit each of the “stations” to learn more about these mission projects and to pray specifically for them. There also will be a station where you may choose, silently or in writing, to make known your own needs or areas of growth you would like to see within our congregation. You can come anytime during the four-hour time period and stay as long or as short a time as you would like. This peaceful, quiet time can also be a wonderful opportunity for you just to have some time to sit in a pew and reflect and meditate.
The idea for the vigil came from CHPC’s Guatemalan Task Force. Prayer vigils are a common spiritual practice in Guatemala and as a part of our partnership with the Q’eqchi’ Estoreno, Izabal Presbytery we have committed ourselves to trying to learn more about this practice modeled so well by our partners. Because we have so many wonderful mission partnerships within our congregation, we wanted to have this chance to pray for all of them.
If you would like to help with any of the plans for the vigil, please contact Soni Castleberry by at sonic573@insightbb.com or 417-6481.
-Soni
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