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As this newsletter goes to print we are surrounded by a beautiful snow that brings with it glistening trees and joyful children. I hope you have the opportunity to enjoy it.

Last Sunday afternoon forty persons from Worthington UMC met for our 2010 Vision Retreat. Together we celebrated this congregation's past and present and began to build on this rich foundation into a future vision. By the time you receive this newsletter we will have met again and brought together the work of many here at WUMC over the past few years with the work of last Sunday into a Vision to be shared and hopefully be embraced by this congregation. As we met many of the wonderful ministries we are already involved in were lifted up and the desire to enhance them was expressed. We began to further claim who we believe we are as God's people.

We will meet again on Sunday, February 28th from noon to 2:30 pm and all are welcome to join in.

Last Saturday morning the Sunday Morning Schedule Study Team met and began to discuss twenty-seven pages of comments and statistical results from over 300 respondents to their survey. The conversation was filled with respect for the varied viewpoints of all, gratitude that persons were willing to share and hope that as recommendations are made there will be understanding that the desires of each person cannot be met, but that a very serious consideration of the comments of each person has taken place.

Before you receive this newsletter, the Study Team will have shared a summary of what they have heard even as they move toward gaining more feedback to potential recommendations.

Both of the processes mentioned above will be in action during the Lenten Season, a time when we reflect on our lives and prepare ourselves to celebrate Christ's Resurrection. Lent is a good time to consider such things and to seek ways that we can help others and ourselves to encounter God more deeply that we might share in Christ's work in even a greater way.

I hope you are participating in our Lenten Study and if not finding other ways to mark this journey that leads us to the Easter Celebration.

Thank you for your wonderful ministry. It is good to be with you.
- Cyndy Garn

See the online
Lenten Brochure
for lots of information on our
Lenten events & activities!

On Wednesdays during Lent, the Potter Chapel will be open for a Meditative Time from 7:00 to 8:30 am and 6:00 to 7:30 pm except on March 10, when the Taizé Service will be held at 7:30 pm.

During this time you can meditate for as long as you like and then come forward where one of the pastors will serve you Holy Communion