Lent Begins Wednesday
Lent is the season of spiritual reflection and exploration between Ash Wednesday and Holy Week, culminating in the observation of Good Friday and Easter.
We invite you to spend Lent with us at FPCG:
Ash Wednesday: Join us this Wednesday evening at 7:30pm for a Lenten Communion service.
Sunday Worship with Communion: Come worship with us this Sunday (2/21) as we celebrate the Lord’s Supper together.
Documentary Film Series: At FPCG, the Lenten season has traditionally been marked by provocative series intended to stretch participants’ understanding of the Christian faith in our lives and culture so that we might experience the resurrection power of Christ more fully in our individual and communal lives.
Last year, along with the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, we screened the films of Macky Alston as the foundation of our series. Alston attended Union Seminary in New York and is the son of a Presbyterian minister. His documentaries have been seen on PBS and are poignant explorations of the complex connections between faith and life circumstances.
This Lent, the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill has invited us to join them in continuing the exploration of various documentary films selected by Mr. Alston’s films on Sunday evenings during Lent.
The films we will be screening are:- Time for Burning: documenting the story of a white Lutheran church in the Midwest in 1969 that tried to build a relationship with a black church.
- Hiding and Seeking: following a Jewish family in which the father is a rabbi raised to be separatist who rebelled and raised his children to be non‑separatists. When the children go to Israel and become more and more separatist, the family is challenged to examine their views on identity.
- For the Bible Tells Me So: Bishop Robinson et. al. tell the stories of being gay and religious as it affects their family and faith lives.
- Pray the Devil Back to Hell: documents Liberian women who are the
catalysts for overwhelming change in government against all odds.
- Duckian and the King: follows an Aboriginal family whose "king" or head of the family is murdered by whites and how they work to forgive.