black history month – A CENTURY OF BLACK HISTORY COMMEMORATIONS
Sunday, Feb 1 – Introduction to Black History Month
Sunday, Feb 8 – Black Education
Sunday, Feb 15 – Black History Commemorations
Sunday, Feb 22 – Black History Trivia
lenten season – Theme: Failing & learning
Lent is a season of getting in touch with our limitations, our failings. Like other fasting seasons of the Church, it presumes our “house” is not in order and must be put in order before the celebration to come. This presumption is part of what underlies the traditional Lenten practices of “giving up” something or taking on a spiritual discipline for the season. In both cases, we should fail, or else we have not challenged ourselves appropriately (of course, we should not demoralize ourselves expecting perfection either).
This season, we look to some of the well-known episodes of the Old Testament story and get in touch with the failures of these our spiritual forbears. By understanding better how they failed — and seeing the mercy and grace that God extended to them throughout their failing and beyond it — perhaps we can both learn from their mistakes and have the courage to take some risks ourselves, knowing that our “failures” are never going onto our “permanent record” with God.
Community Practice – Throughout this season of Lent, we are inviting you to participate in a kind of community discipline of repentance and forgiveness — ritualized through symbols of the breaking of ceramics and the creation of a mosaic. These actions will be incorporated into our Worship services. If you’re worshipping with us online, you are encouraged to create your own version of this practice at home. You may also participate in the community creation by mailing in a ceramic shard, which will be added to the mosaic on your behalf. Shards may be mailed to Community Baptist Church, Attn: Mosaic, 28W444 Main St. Warrenville, IL 60555. Please wrap your shard carefully to avoid damage or accidental injury.
Ash Wednesday, Feb 18, Worship Service 7:00 PM – Failing Up – Joel 2
First Sunday of Lent, Feb 22, Worship Service 10:30 AM – Failure of Perspective – Genesis 2. Breaking of Ceramics
Second Sunday of Lent, Mar 1, Worship Service 10:30 AM – Failure of Priority – Genesis 12. Beginning of creation of our Mosaic
Third Sunday of Lent, Mar 8, Worship Service 10:30 AM – Failure of Imagination – Exodus 17
Fourth Sunday of Lent, Mar 15, Worship Service 10:30 AM – Failure of Vision – I Samuel 16
Fifth Sunday of Lent, Mar 22, Worship Service 10:30 AM – Failure of Mission – Ezekiel 37
Palm Sunday, Mar 29, Worship Service 10:30 AM
Good Friday, Apr 3, Worship Service TBA
Easter Sunday, Apr 5, Worship Service 10:30 AM – Celebration of the Resurrection, Easter Flower Display, & Special Music
Worship Services – in-person & livestream
You are welcome to attend services in-person or via livestream every week! You can join our livestream by clicking on the “Live Service” link on the upper right corner of our Home Page.