Redeemer Lutheran and St. Theodore

On Sunday, March 8, the congregations of Redeemer Lutheran Church and St. Theodore of Canterbury Episcopal Church will celebrate the third Sunday of Lent at 10:30 a.m. at 13564 St. Andrews Drive with a guest speaker. People can join after service for coffee, tea, cookies and snacks in the Fellowship Hall. The congregation will accept new members in March. Those interested should speak to Rev. Murray Finck or one of the church council members.

People are invited to join the Lenten reflection study and supper on Wednesdays at 4 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. The group will meet and March 11, 18 and 25. People are asked to sign up on the sheet in the entryway so the church can have a head count to plan the meal.

This year the Lenten gatherings is titled “Voices Along the Way.” Learn from five biblical people who were connected with the passion of Jesus. The meeting will begin at 3 p.m., followed by a meal together at 4 The bazaar committee will have twice-a-month crafting get-togethers on the first and third Mondays at 10 a.m. The next meeting is Monday, March 16, in the Fellowship Hall. This will allow the congregation to better prepare for the spring and fall bazaars.

The Gospel lesson is from John 4:5-42. Jesus declares himself the water of life to the Samaritan woman at the well. Believers need to drink from this water so that they may become “a spring of water welling up to eternal life” (John 4:14). Believers are baptized by water (one of the most destructive and most necessary things on earth) into the life, death, and resurrection of the Christ.