{"id":72597,"date":"2025-03-13T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=72597"},"modified":"2025-03-13T05:42:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T09:42:02","slug":"happenings-at-wawa-first-united-march-13-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/happenings-at-wawa-first-united-march-13-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happenings at Wawa First United- March 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lent 1, <\/strong>\u00a0The Season of Lent lasts 40 days, a reminder of the 40 years the people of Israel spent in the wilderness learning to live in God\u2019s way of freedom and justice. God gave the people the Torah to guide them, a gift that they considered more precious than gold and \u201csweeter also than honey\u00a0 and drippings from the honeycomb\u201d\u00a0 (Psalm 19:10). Rabbis would place drops of honey on the Torah scroll. They would also drop a little honey on the tongues of toddlers, inviting them to \u201ctaste and see\u201d that living in God\u2019s way is sweet. (adapted from \u201cSustaining the Weary with a Word\u201d by Ed Searcy, in Journal for Preachers. Lent 2003, p.6)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creation Connection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The passage from Deuteronomy names the people of God as those who have received the land as a gift from a gracious, creative God, entrusted to care for it with gratitude and to celebrate the abundant generosity of God.\u00a0 (Deut. 26:1-11)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday March16 \u2013 Lent 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scriptures:<\/p>\n<p>Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 God seals the covenant with Abram and Sarai<\/p>\n<p>Philippians 3;17 &#8211; 4:1\u00a0 My dear friends, my joy, my crown, hold firm in God<\/p>\n<p>Luke 13:31-35\u00a0 Jesus cries over Jerusalem as a hen over her chicks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Worship Leader: Kaireen\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reader: Gail<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Announcements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Prayer Shawl group will meet on March 29<sup>th<\/sup> at 3 \u2013 4 pm, in the Family Room at First United. All knitters and crocheters are most welcome. Materials can be supplied if needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>March 13 -14 Purim (Jewish)<\/p>\n<p>March 17 &#8211;\u00a0 St Patrick\u2019s Day<\/p>\n<p>March 18 \u2013 Global Recycling Day<\/p>\n<p>March 20 \u2013 Spring Equinox (5:01 am EDT)<\/p>\n<p>March 21 \u2013 UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>March 21 \u2013 World Down Syndrome Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lent 1, \u00a0The Season of Lent lasts 40 days, a reminder of the 40 years the people of Israel spent in the wilderness learning to live in God\u2019s way of freedom and justice. God gave the people the Torah to guide them, a gift that they considered more precious than gold and \u201csweeter also than &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 15:56:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72598,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72597\/revisions\/72598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}