Hello, Peace Mennonite Friends. This year for Lent, we encourage you to give renewed attention to your spiritual life. Below you will find a calendar of lent and Easter opportunities and a resource list of various spiritual practices you might like to explore.
Holy Week
- Thursday: Peace Mennonite will not host a Maundy Thursday service this year. You are invited to attend worship at another congregation or spend some worshipful time at home.
- First Baptist Church (1330 Kassold), 6:30 p.m.
- Good Shepherd Lutheran (2211 Inverness), 7 p.m.
- Plymouth Congregational (925 Vermont), 7:30 p.m.
- Maundy Thursday reflection video from Willow Avenue Mennonite Church.
- Friday: Peace Mennonite is joining with our friends at Vintage Church for Good Friday worship! We hope you can join us at Vintage (1501 New Hampshire), 6:30 p.m. Joanna will preach and we will share the bread we made at our recent Gracious Space service.
- If you would like to watch this service online, simply go to the Vintage Church homepage at 6:30 that evening.
- Saturday: Consider observing Holy Saturday with a special time of prayer, a walk in God’s creation, or using one of the videos below:
- Faure Requiem choral performance from First Mennonite Church in Winnipeg
- A brief Taize service for Holy Saturday
- Sunday, March 31: Let’s celebrate the Resurrection together in worship and fellowship!
- 7 a.m.: Easter Sunrise worship with First Baptist and Vintage Church at the Baker Wetlands (near the Discovery Center)
- 9 a.m.: Potluck breakfast at Peace Mennonite building
- 9:30: No separate Zoom worship this morning
- 10:30: In-person worship live streamed on Zoom

- Colored Pencil Prayers
- Praying in Color
- Creative Arts Lenten Retreat
- Weekly creative prayer practices with Pastor Joanna

- Gratitude Journal
- Templates you can use to list things for which you are grateful
- Come to Open Labyrinth (9-noon on March 1) and do a gratitude labyrinth walk.

- Daily Examen: website instructions, video introduction, or phone app
- Connecting with nature
- Attending to dreams

- Previous year’s Peace Mennonite Lenten Devotional
- Lent at Home 2024: Christ Among Us

- Read a book from our church library.
- Explore the Center for Action and Contemplation–read articles, listen to podcasts . . .
- Watch Bible study and music videos from Menno Media.