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Abby Goodman-Johnson and Louisa Jensen will serve as our scripture readers with focus texts from Luke 7:36-50 (a woman anoints Jesus&#8217; feet) and Matthew 25:35-40 (as you did it unto the least of these). Rev. Amanda will preach. Omari Hardy will sing &#8220;Go Down, Moses,&#8221; accompanied by Dennis Turner. Rev. Amanda and Rev. Sam will invite us to the communion feast. For those joining us from home, please prepare your table with the elements of bread and cup, which we will bless and break together. Join us!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cover art: &#8220;Anointed&#8221; by Lauren Wright Pittman<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us at 10:30 in the\u00a0sanctuary or\u00a0click here\u00a0to join us by Zoom on this Communion Sunday in Lent as we continue our theme, &#8220;Tell Me Something Good: Grounding Ourselves in Good News this Lent.&#8221; Alisa Tanaka-Dodge and Tadashi Dodge will serve as our Lenten candle liturgists, offering a personal reflection and extinguishing another candle as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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