Christ Our Hope Lutheran Church

P. O. Box 961690
Riverdale, Georgia 30296
(770) 997-7117                         (770) 997-3312

Jeffrey M. Halenza, Pastor

March 1, 2023

Dear Members, Visitors, and Friends of the Congregation,

          On these Wednesdays in Lent, during both our noon services and our ZOOM services, I will be praying special prayers for Lent. The purpose of the prayers is to help us keep being Christian in a culture in which it’s hard to be Christian in a way that matters.

          The irony of reading the attached prayer is that in doing so you are doing exactly what the prayer encourages us not to do: look at one of the many screens many of us look at day after day. I hope the prayer will help you look away from all those screens that so occupy and preoccupy us and look at others and see them as the human beings they are and relate more to them than the screens set before us.

          May this season of Lent be a time in which we increase our love for God and others,

Pastor Halenza

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