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SUN, MARCH 3, 2024

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March All-Church Prayer Schedule

FRI, MAR 1 | 7:30 PM | In person (Welcome Center) –  In this challenging time for our church, we will unite to look to the Lord in reflection, worship, lament and silent prayer.

SAT, MAR 9 | 8:30 AM | Virtual via Zoom
SAT, MAR 23  | 8:30 AM | Virtual via Zoom – Prayer for Missions

Midday Lenten Services

WEDNESDAYS until MAR 27 | 12:15 PM | Sanctuary

Our Midday Lenten Services are continuing each week, and you are invited to join as we gather for a 30-minute service of prayer, reflection on scripture, and hymns. For those who cannot join in person, the services will be streamed at parkstreet.org/live.

Lenten Discipleship Initiative and World Relief 80th Anniversary

Lenten Discipleship Initiative
SUNDAYS until MAR 24 | After the 8:30 AM and 4:00 PM services
For this year’s Lenten Discipleship Initiative, we are using a devotional prepared by World Relief entitled “He Was There.” World Relief was founded 80 years ago on a foundation laid by Park Street Church to address the critical need for food and clothing among people displaced by the war in Europe. As we celebrate World Relief’s 80th Anniversary throughout Lent, this devotional will help us examine Jesus’ care for those on the margins – the sick, the disenfranchised, the lost – and together we will see how this sacrificial love is for us, too. See here to view more information, register, and download digital copies of “He Was There.”

Give to World Relief with “fasting envelopes”
FEB 11 – MAR 30
Back when World Relief was still forming, Park Street Church contributed by encouraging congregants to fast one meal a week during Lent and to donate the money they would have used for that food using a “fasting envelope.” Throughout this coming Lent, we will once again be encouraging everyone to consider fasting and donating. Fasting envelopes will be available in the Welcome Center. Fasting money can also be donated online or in the Church Center App.
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Suffering Well Amid Ambiguous Loss

WED, MAR 6 | 10:00 – 11:30 AM | Park Street Church

Join the Life Together Women’s Bible Study as they hear from guest speaker Tammy McLeod (Park Street’s Director of College Student Ministries and President of the Harvard Chaplains). Childcare will be available. Register for childcare by emailing [email protected].

Reception for Walter Kim, World Relief Guest Preacher

SUN, MAR 17 | 12:30 PM | Welcome Center

As part of the 80th anniversary commemoration of the founding of World Relief and its roots at Park Street Church, we will be welcoming Dr. Walter Kim to the pulpit on MAR 17.  Walter is the president of the National Association of Evangelicals, which is the parent organization of World Relief. He is also on the board of World Relief. Walter was a member of Park Street’s ministerial staff for 15 years. His wife Toni is the NAE’s director of spiritual care and was a member of Park Street’s ministerial staff for 17 years. 

Easter Memorial Flowers

BY SUN, MAR 24

If you would like to order flowers to decorate the sanctuary on Easter Sunday in memory of a loved one, please fill out this form by SUN, MAR 24. Payment can be made by check or online.

World Relief 80th Anniversary: Looking Back and Looking Forward

The following announcement appeared in the bulletin on March 9, 1941:

As you fast during Lent, please consider this week’s prayer request from World Relief:
 
Pray for World Relief in the U.S. as they welcome arriving refugees and immigrants through offices all across the country. 

Each of these offices are committed to providing vital services to arriving clients, as well as laboring to create just and welcoming communities while bringing people together through meaningful connection. Pray that they will not grow weary in doing good, and that the Lord will provide all that is needed for the work he has called them to. 

And pray for refugees and displaced people here in Massachusetts.

Wilson House Room Openings

Park Street’s residential college ministry house has an opening for a male resident starting April 4 and openings for both men and women starting June 1. Twenty-somethings with a heart for undergraduate ministry are encouraged to apply! Six volunteer hours per week are required. Email [email protected] for an application.

Couples Retreat Registration is Open

MAY 17-19 | Linekin Bay Resort – Boothbay Harbor, Maine

This year, we will return to Maine for a weekend celebrating marriage! We truly hope you can join us. The weekend will provide time alone and with other couples, building one another up, learning from one another, and enriching everyone’s marriages. Cost is $450 per couple ($225/person). Childcare provided for ages 0-4 at an additional fee per child. Scholarships are available.

Registration closes APR 21. Register here. Questions? Email Adam.

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Prayer Requests

Collective Prayers

“Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.” Psalm 5:2

Let us pray together…

  • For the world, that God’s goodness would be seen and recognized in his creation.
  • For the Church, that the Holy Spirit would build us up together in faith.
  • For Park Street Church, that we would see the course laid out for us, and walk in it alongside Jesus.
  • For the new members who have joined us, that they would experience the love of God though this community.
  • For the sick and the suffering, that God would bring healing in body and soul.

Send your prayer requests to [email protected]
or
call 617-523-3383