From the Pastor’s Message:

March will carry us through many transitions: from winter into spring, from darker evenings into longer light, from the quiet reflection of Lent into the intensity of Holy Week.

This month at the Lutheran Church of Arcata, we will primarily encounter Jesus in the Gospel of John. We hear of him meeting Nicodemus in the night, speaking with the Samaritan woman at the well, giving sight to a man born blind, raising Lazarus from the tomb, and entering Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. In each account, we see more of who Christ is and what he brings: truth for the searching, living water for the thirsty, sight for the blind, life for the dead, and sacrificial love poured out for the world.

As we seek to return to God this Lenten season, we gather again and again as a church—around soup and bread, Word and Sacrament, song and prayer. And we remember that it is not merely the turning of the calendar that brings us from one transition to the next. It is Christ in our midst, and the steadfast love of God that holds us together, sustains us, and leads us home.

Lenten Blessings,
Pastor Taylor