This year our Ash Wednesday service will be on February 18 at 4:30 p.m. We scheduled the service early hoping some of our folks who don’t like to drive at night can be there. The service will likely be for about ½ hour. This service sets the tone and the theme for our Lenten journey. It tends to be a quieter more contemplative service. Receiving the sign of the cross marked in ashes on our foreheads or the back of our hands reminds us of our own mortality and of what lies at the end of this Lenten journey during Holy Week. We hope you will make this service part of your Lenten tradition if you’ve never participated before. If it is already part of your Lenten practice, we look forward to beginning the journey with you again.