Monthly Minute with Pastor Andrew

Hello to all the Monthly Minute readers of West Hempfield Presbyterian Church!

This month, as we celebrate love, we remember that love is more than hearts and candy and flowers.

This month, as we celebrate love, we remember that “God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8

This month, as we celebrate love, we remember that “We love because He first loved us.” 1 John 4:19

This month, as we celebrate love, we remember that there are many brothers and sisters, made in the image of God, who are lonely, scared, hungry, cold, and/or hurting right now. For them, and all God’s children, we pray.

This month, as we celebrate love, we remember that God commanded us “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Mark 12:31

This month, as we celebrate love, we remember that even though the ways of this world encourage us to see our differences and to seek division, God’s Way reminds us that we have far more in common than our differences.

This month, as we celebrate love, we remember that “Love is patient; love is kind.”

1 Corinthians 13:4

This month, as we celebrate love, we remember that “God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” 1 John 4:16

Blessings, Rev. Andrew Wirt

Pastor Andrew Recommends

With Lent approaching, I want to recommend something to help us prepare for Easter:

The Lent Experience

by Eric Ferris

available in RightNow Media

Description: What happens when you take 2,000 years of a Christian tradition, capture the heart of it, and reimagine it? Whether you’re a veteran of observing Lent or a rookie who is jumping in for the first time, you can join thousands of people for an experience that just may surprise you.

It’s simple. You watch a short video on Ash Wednesday that kicks the whole thing off. Then, each Sunday until Easter you will watch a short video that will give you your Lent Experience challenge for the week. The challenges are based on things that have been a part of Lent for centuries. Your participant journal is loaded with everything you need to learn more about Lent and to successfully complete each week’s challenge.

To help us with this study, I have bought a few of the “Participant Journals” that go along with the video. You can buy your own on Amazon for about $8, or talk to me at church and I can give you one. If you are able to make a $5 gift, that will help us buy more if there is lots of interest.