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Have a Beautiful, Terrible Lent!
February 19 @ 6:00 pm - March 19 @ 8:15 pm
This weekly small group guide is your invitation to join others in community and bless whatever this season is actually bringing you all. So let’s stop waiting. This is the one we have. Let’s bless it all—all of the beautiful and terrible parts.” – Kate Bowler
Join us for our weekly Lent gathering. Follow along daily from anywhere with a copy of Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day Participants will need to purchase their own copy of the book.
Start by reading the introduction to Lent on p. 96 and the individual devotionals start on p. 98. We will begin reading on Ash Wednesday, February 14, 2024 and read one devotional per day. We will meet weekly for prayer, thoughtful discussion, and reflection on the previous week.
Group Meeting Options:
• Mondays | from 6-7pm on Zoom | February 19 & 26, March 4, 11, & 18
• Tuesdays | from 7:15-8:15 pm in person at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Kinston | February 20 & 27, March 5, 12, & 19
**If there is a desire for a Tuesday morning Zoom gathering we will also offer that.** Contact Emily Gowdy Canady by January 31st.
This opportunity is led by Liz Hengst, Family Ministry Coordinator, St. Mary’s, Kinston and supported by the Department of Lifelong Christian Formation in the Diocese of East Carolina.
Liz says, I grew up in New York where I spent much time exploring nature in upstate New York and the wonders of city life in Manhattan. In my mid-teens I moved to Arizona with my mom and grandmother. Much of my church life growing up was because of my grandmother who showed me all that the Episcopal Church is. Arizona is where I met my amazing husband. Eventually we moved us and our two kids (and one kid on the way) to North Carolina not knowing much about the state, but we felt a pull to be on the East Coast. Living in the Raleigh area is where I took a chance volunteering with a Youth Ministries program at our church and stumbled upon what I knew was my calling for a long (and still going) season of life. I found my way into Kids, Youth, and Camp Ministries throughout churches in North Carolina and back in Arizona for a little while. I now live with my family in Kinston, North Carolina where I am the Family Ministry Coordinator for St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. As we journey through life it is amazing to see how God works through each of us when we hold on to hope, live with faith, and act in love.