Lent, the forty days plus six Sundays that lead up to Easter, is a time for growing through repentance, fellowship, prayer, fasting, and concentration upon our baptismal covenant. It is an especially appropriate time to be about intentional faith development, to truly inquire as to whether the path we're on is leading us to be more and more like Jesus.

As we begin the season of Lent together at Ashland, we'll do so in worship on Ash Wednesday, February 17, at 7:00 pm. We'll begin that evening with the usual GIFT meal and GIFT classes, but those dates will include the Imposition of Ashes, a sign of the cross made on the forehead or back of the hand with ashes produced by burning palms from the last year's Palm Sunday. Join your Ashland family as we begin our Lenten journey for 2010.

Lent, the forty days plus six Sundays that lead up to Easter, is a time for growing through repentance, fellowship, prayer, fasting, and concentration upon our baptismal covenant. It is an especially appropriate time to be about intentional faith development, to truly inquire as to whether the path we're on is leading us to be more and more like Jesus.

As we begin the season of Lent together at Ashland, we'll do so in worship on Ash Wednesday, February 17, at 7:00 pm. We'll begin that evening with the usual GIFT meal and GIFT classes, but those dates will include the Imposition of Ashes, a sign of the cross made on the forehead or back of the hand with ashes produced by burning palms from the last year's Palm Sunday. Join your Ashland family as we begin our Lenten journey for 2010.