Happenings at Bear Creek

A Message from Pastor Bob:

“Go Tell It on the Mountain,” is the rousing refrain of a well-known Christmas Carol.  It speaks to the ancient awareness of mountaintop experiences.  Those larger-than-life occurrences that change our lives, broaden our perspectives, and give us deeper faith.  Experiences that make us want to share this story with everyone we see:  That make us want to shout out from the top of the highest mountain!

This is the focus of our Midweek Lenten services this year.  Looking at “Mountaintop experiences” from the biblical witness.  How, upon mountains, God revealed himself to us.  How humans climbed up mountains, experienced an encounter with God from the top of these places, and then climbed back down from the mountain, to return to their everyday life—but as changed people.

We will gather for our Ash Wednesday worship on Wednesday, March 5th at 7 p.m. for a service of confession of sins, imposition of ashes, and Holy Communion.  We will continue to gather on Wednesdays throughout the season of Lent at 7 p.m. where we will use the familiar “Holden Evening Prayer” liturgy and reflect upon “Mountaintop Experiences” from scripture and their witness to our lives.

As we embark upon this 40 day period of Lenten reflection and spiritual renewal, my prayer for you is that you will find God ever-present in your life, speaking to you, guiding you, accompanying you throughout the journeys that you will take this Spring.  Whether you find yourself in life-changing experiences, in mountaintop experiences, or in the ordinary places you know so well, may God’s abiding presence comfort you, fill you with peace, and reassure you of the resurrection joy that is ours as Easter people.

God’s blessings to you and your family,

Pastor Bob Tewes