Friends and family of Federal Way United Methodist Church,

It felt like million years ago when we talked about Lent as a time of giving up or adding a spiritual discipline to become more aware of what it means to prepare for Lent. It’s become clear that Lent is great when it’s on our choice. It’s easy to give up chocolate or social media when we choose to. We are all better at Lent; when Lent is on our terms.

We are in a time when we are being asked to be physically distant from friends, family and loved ones. We are asked to do this whether we are ill, or not. We are asked to be physically distant because it’s the good, moral thing to do for everyone. It’s good for our neighbors that we see and for the ones we don’t.

This is a time when the bravest of us are able to care for the least and most vulnerable of our communities by staying home and healthy. Thank you for the ways you are choosing to care for our community, for our neighbors and for our world. We are all in this together, and we will get through this together.

Worshiping online together

In case you missed worship this past Sunday, here's a link to last weeks service.

Reverend Terri Jane Stewart preached and provided some wonderful reflections and ideas to serve. She serves as senior pastor at Milton united Methodist church. In addition she is the Director of the youth chaplaincy coalition. For those who asked, here is the address she talked about.

King County Youth Service Center,

Attn: Ashley Mareld,

1211 E Alder St,

Seattle, WA 98122

Also, feel free to send in your selfie for our church chairs to Sharon Wisenburg. Her email is sharonatchurch@gmail.com.

Generosity:

Thank you for your everyday generosity. You can give online through our website, here is the link. We also want to thank the many of you who are mailing in your gifts and tithes to our church. The address is 29645 51st Ave S, Auburn, WA 98001-2321.

Staying connected throughout the week

Some of the ways we are staying connected is through our church Facebook account. The link to the account is here.

This weekly email is going out through this link. Please subscribe if you want to keep up to date on my weekly email and daily videos.

Speaking of daily videos, we’d love to invite you to join our Facebook event through our Facebook page for our Tuesday night Online Potluck at 6pm PST. You are invited to post your picture of what you are having for dinner. Last week was our first try and it went really well.

Peace be with you church,

Pastor DJ