Churches

Emmanuel Lutheran Church

All are welcome to worship with us Sunday, Feb. 22. You may also watch our pastors sermons at our website http://www.emmanuelcheney.org or on YouTube at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Cheney. Come early for Christian education classes for grade school through adult.

Please plan to worship with us during our mid-week Lenten worship services. Our first mid-week Lenten service will be held Wednesday, Feb. 25. This worship service will be held weekly until March 25. A simple soup supper will be served at 6 p.m. followed by worship at 6:30.

Emmanuel Lutheran Church would like to thank the community for supporting us during our Festival of Chocolate last week.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church

A welcoming haven, nourishing all God’s people in body, mind and spirit. Holy communion at 11 a.m. The Rev. Christine Soule will preach and preside.

Lenten Soup and Study will take place each Wednesday through Lent, convening at 6 p.m. for a Soup and Bread and Study. The focus of our meetings will be the book, “Conversations with Scripture: The Gospel of John, by Cynthia Briggs Kittredge.”

Attention college students: Each Monday at 5 p.m. you are invited to join us for dinner, study and devotions.

Narcotics Anonymous meets Tuesday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m. in the parish hall. Fellowship breakfast is each Thursday morning at 7:30 a.m. in the parish hall. Come and bring a friend.

For your contemplation: “The call to ‘do penance’ is based not on the fact that penance will keep us in trim, but on the fact that ‘the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.’ Our penance-metanoia-is our response to the proclamation of the Gospel message, the Kerygma which announces our salvation if we will hear God and harden not our hearts. The function of penance and self-denial is then contrition, or the ‘breaking up’ of that hardness of heart which prevents us from understanding God’s command to love, and from obeying it effectively,” Thomas Merton.

United Methodist Church

Worship this Sunday at the United Methodist Church will begin at 10 a.m. and be led by pastor Alissa Bertsch-Johnson. The first Sunday of Lent will be observed. Preceding worship are Sunday school classes at 9 a.m. All are welcome as we study and worship together.

Sunday the Cheney UMC choir will participate in the Inland District Choir Festival at 4:30 p.m. at the Spokane Valley UMC. Our own choir director, Mary Jane Shervais, will also direct the massed choir. There will be no Sunday evening worship this week.

Wednesday Lenten studies and soup suppers continue. A simple soup supper at 6 p.m. will be followed by a study called, “The Way: Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus.” A class for kids is also available.