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Summary
In this week’s service at Fairhaven United Methodist Church, Pastor Rev. Peg Bowman introduced a new sermon series called “Steadfast Love: A Lenten Playlist.” Each Sunday during Lent, they will explore different aspects of this theme through songs and prayers from the Breakthrough Prayer Book. She highlighted Andra Day’s “Rise Up,” which encourages listeners to rise up even in difficult times, drawing parallels to Psalm 91.
Pastor Bowman also discussed Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness (Luke 4), emphasizing that number 40 holds significant meaning in Scripture. She explained how Jesus resisted three temptations by quoting Deuteronomy and Psalm 91, reminding congregation members of God’s steadfast love and their ability to trust in it during challenging times.
So as I mentioned earlier this morning, we’re starting our journey through Lent with a new sermon series. The series is called Steadfast Love, a Lenten playlist, and a playlist as in a list of songs, right? The songs will help to illustrate various aspects of this time of year. And each week we will have a different song to listen to. Also during the coming weeks, of course, we’ll be praying our way through the Breakthrough Prayer Book, either as individuals or in small groups.
So we’ve got a lot of things, a lot of new things sort of coming at us this Lent. Before I dive into these though, I wanted to also mention the Ashes to Go this past week with, first off, thanks to everyone who helped out with that. I wanted to share with you how very much the Ashes to Go was appreciated by the people who stopped in. Many people told us they were on their way to work and didn’t think they’d have a chance to get to a service later.
They were so glad we were here. That’s okay. Grab him. And anyway, so the folks who stopped in, they told us that they were so glad that we were here.
And the person who came, we gave them some Lenten prayers to pray. We also gave them an invitation to the Wednesday night services, and they were very much appreciative of this. And I also wanted to mention that many of them said how much they love our sign out front. They look at it every day when they go by, and they just really appreciate that.
So I just wanted to share with you some of that feedback. We had about 15 people, I think, came through for Ashes, and I think maybe next year, if we just advertise a little better, we might get more than that. But even so, it was a good day, not cold like it was last year, so it just went very, very well. So before I get to the song for this week, as sort of a lead into this, on Ash Wednesday, for those of us who attended service, when we received our ashes, we received them with the words, Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.
Now, the older I get, the less I feel like I need to be reminded of that. In the words of Stephen King, in the movie The Green Mile, We each owe a death. There are no exceptions. But sometimes, oh God, the green mile is so long.
And this echoes the feeling in the song for today. What is it that we need when the green mile starts to feel too long, and how can we help people who are feeling that way? Andra Day had an answer in this week’s song, Rise Up. In her song, the singer has a friend who is feeling really, really down, so far down, that he or she feels like giving up. Now, the song doesn’t say what the trouble was.
Might have been illness, might have been losing a friend, might have been a job situation, but the singer says to her friend, You can’t find the fighter in yourself, but I see it in you, and we’re going to move mountains, she says. The phrase moving mountains means a lot to me personally, as well as to many people of faith, because God has moved mountains for us, and God has promised that if we have faith just the size of a mustard seed, we’ll be able to move mountains, too. And I imagine the person that she’s singing to doesn’t feel much like moving mountains at that particular moment, but she says, We’re going to walk it out, walk it out. It reminds me of an old college friend who suffered from a mild form of epilepsy.
Every now and then she would just sort of zone out and become unaware of her surroundings. And those of us who knew her knew what to do. We would just take her for a short walk, like down the hill, down the hall, and back again, and she’d just sort of zone back in, and she’d be fine. Like the song says, we’re going to walk it out.
And in a similar way, God walks with us. God walks it out with us, even if we’re not always aware of it. It’s a great song to hear, especially this year when it feels like the past two months have been a year already. I mean, this past two months we have had people who’ve lost loved ones, people who’ve taken family or friends to hospital, while every day seems to bring new bad news.
The song, this song is good because it reminds us that when God looks at us, the eyes of God’s love see what is possible, even when we can’t see it. So we’re going to walk it out with Jesus. We’re going to move mountains with Jesus. Which brings us to Psalm 91, which we read a moment ago.
This Psalm talks about God as my refuge and my fortress. The Psalm talks about leaning on God and relying on God’s strength. Interesting note, by the way, for those of you who are familiar with Amy Grant’s song, El Shaddai, if you’ve ever heard that, the opening verses of Psalm 91, the words in Hebrew include the names El Shaddai and El Elyon, both of which Amy Grant uses in her song. The name El Shaddai implies provision as taken from the word for breast, as in a mother feeding her child.
And the name El Elyon means God most high. So we see in these names both God’s tenderness and God’s power. Another interesting side note, number two here, El Elyon in the book of Genesis is connected with the name Melchizedek. Now those of us in the Bible study might remember that.
Melchizedek was that mysterious priest who met Abraham and who later King David wrote about in the Psalms saying, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, which is a prophecy of the Messiah. So we have a connection here from Abraham to Jesus, all in the first few verses of Psalm 91. Anyway, back to the Psalm. Our hymn on eagles’ wings, which we just sang, is basically Psalm 91 set to music.
It’s no wonder this song means so much to so many people. The first time that I heard the song, my college roommate and I, both of us were music majors at the time, and we were at a funeral. And the soloist sang On Eagles’ Wings. We’d never heard it before.
We looked at each other and went, Wow, what a great song. It was one of those moments where we’re like, We’re going to hear this one again for sure. I doubt that Psalm 91 was written for a funeral, but it was written to remind us of God’s loving protection no matter what. It was written to help us express that wonderful feeling of contentment and well-being when we are in God’s comforting presence.
You who live in the shelter of the Most High, say to the Lord, My refuge, my fortress, my God in whom I trust, and he will raise you up on eagles’ wings. What a great comfort that is. Psalm 91 doesn’t promise that we will never have trouble, but it gives a foundation to our faith that helps us get through those times of trouble. So given this, it’s interesting that in our gospel reading for today in the book of Luke, the tempter who tempts Jesus starts out with a line from Psalm 91.
The tempter says, He will command his angels concerning you to guard you. On their hands they’ll bear you up lest you strike your foot against a stone. Let me back up to the beginning of the story now. So the past few Sundays we have been reading about the beginning of the end of Jesus’ time on earth, his transfiguration, his final journey to Jerusalem.
But Luke 4 that we just heard just takes us back to the beginning, the very beginning of Jesus’ ministry. And at this point in time, Jesus has not yet done anything in public other than be baptized. And immediately after that, the Spirit led him into the wilderness for a time with God and a time of testing. So Jesus is in this dry, rocky wilderness for 40 days without food.
The number 40, by the way, is important in Scripture. Noah had 40 days of rain. Moses had 40 days without food on Mount Sinai. Israel was 40 years in the wilderness and we have 40 days of land.
But number 40 keeps repeating itself, so we kind of watch for that. While Jesus was there in the wilderness, the tempter came and tested him. And all three temptations start out with the words, If you are the Son of God. If Jesus had any doubts about who he was or what he was born on earth to do, these temptations were designed to bring those doubts to the surface.
Likewise with us, by the way, one of the tempter’s greatest attacks on us is to call into question whether or not we are really children of God, whether or not we are really saved, to make us doubt. And we can answer temptation the same way Jesus does, with the words of God. Jesus was human, just like us. He had the same Scriptures that we have.
He had the Old Testament. His mother Mary, I’m sure, told him about his birth and who he was, that he was the promised Messiah. But Jesus had to learn, just like we did, as he grew up, one day at a time, who he was, what he had come to earth for. God was with him and the Holy Spirit was with him as he learned and grew.
But only at Jesus’ baptism do we actually hear God speak out loud in Jesus’ hearing, where he says, This is my Son, my beloved. Listen to him. Up till then, he hadn’t seen or done that. The miraculous wasn’t there.
Everyday living. So Jesus didn’t have a whole lot to go on, really, growing up. But we know that Jesus knew the Scriptures well. He understood the law of Moses.
And Jesus understood the law not as a list of do’s and don’ts, but as a means to human thriving. The Ten Commandments and all of the law are given so that human society would thrive as God says, so that you may live and increase. Jesus also understood that God is our provider and that God showed this to Israel by giving manna to Israel in the wilderness, day by day, one day at a time, everyday, without fail, in order to teach the people to trust God on a daily basis. God could have given the people a week’s worth of manna all at one shot.
But God did not do that. God gave the manna daily so the people would learn to look to God for their needs everyday. And this is what the tempter wants to destroy, this relationship of trust. So temptation number one, the tempter says to Jesus, If you’re the son of God, turn these stones to bread.
Now, could Jesus have done that? Sure. The ancient Hebrew prayer says, Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth. Jesus had the ability and it would not have been wrong for Jesus to do it, except that the real temptation was to use one’s own power to take care of oneself while losing sight of what God had in mind, that is, God’s bigger picture, and also losing sight of God’s trustworthiness. Jesus’ reply shows that he identifies with us, with the people of God.
Because we can’t make bread out of stones. We wait everyday for God’s provision. And since the people of God are in the position where we need to depend on God everyday, our Savior does the same, in solidarity with us. Jesus is committed to living the way we live and walking with God in ways that we can also walk with God so that we can see how it’s done.
So temptation number two, the tempter says, All power over all the earth has been given to me and I will give it to you if you will bow down and worship me. Of course the first question is, is he telling the truth about this? Does he really have control over everything on earth? And if so, he seems to be offering Jesus a shortcut, a way of becoming the ruler of the earth without having to endure the cross. Now for those of us here on the planet, it may seem to us like the evil one is in charge of this planet sometimes. I mean, C.
S. Lewis once wrote a book, a science fiction book called Out of the Silent Planet in which all the planets in the entire universe that have life on them were always singing praises to God and making beautiful music except for the planet earth. Because of our sin and rebellion against God, earth was the silent planet. And the story is about how music was brought to our world.
Planet earth certainly is in rebellion against God. There are unspeakable evils that are done in this world every day. But I think the tempter’s lying when he says he’s in control of it. The tempter’s power is in making us think he’s in control.
He brags and he boasts and he swaggers and he makes himself bigger than he is. And his power is in blinding the eyes of non-believers to how near to us God really is. But Jesus doesn’t fall for it, not for one minute. It’s written, he answers, it is written, Worship the Lord your God and serve only Him.
That’s commandment number one in the Ten Commandments. But more than that, Jesus knows his Father God. He knows how good God is. There’s no way he’s going to worship anybody else.
So temptation number three. The tempter says, If you really are the Son of God, throw yourself off the temple. Because it says in scriptures, namely Psalm 91, which we just read, He will command his angels concerning you to protect you. And on their hands they shall bear you up, lest you dash your foot against a stone.
Now again, could Jesus have done this? Could he have leaped off the top of the temple? Are God’s angels really at his command? Yes. Jesus said to the people who arrested him on Good Friday, Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father and he will at once send me more than 12 legions of angels? See yes, Jesus could have, but he didn’t. Because Jesus loves and trusts his Father God, and Jesus loves us. So Jesus answers, It is also written, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.
‘ Interesting footnote to Psalm 91, where the tempter, which the tempter quoted, in the very, very next verse after what he quoted, it says about the godly person, You will tread on the lion and the adder, the young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot. It’s interesting because in scripture the devil is sometimes referred to as a young lion looking to devour or a serpent who deceives. So Psalm 91 takes care of both. Jesus does not indulge himself in heroic self-reliance.
Instead he trusts in a strong relationship with God, and this Lent we are invited to renew that relationship. Jesus declares the good news. God loves us, and therefore we can trust God even in times of temptation, even in times of darkness, and especially in the tough times. We can trust that God is with us, and we can live in the comfort of knowing that God loves us.
No matter how low we go, when Jesus is with us, in the words of the song, we’re going to rise up. We’re going to rise up. Amen.
Summary
In this week’s service, Pastor Rev. Dylan Parson explored the profound connection between humanity’s innate desire for elevated vantage points and spiritual encounters with God atop mountains. Drawing from personal experiences and biblical narratives, including the transfiguration of Jesus on a mountaintop as described in Luke, Rev. Parson emphasized how these sacred sites offer moments of divine clarity and transformation. However, he also highlighted the challenge of carrying that transformative power into everyday life, where darkness and struggles often prevail.
The sermon delved into the importance of recognizing God’s presence not just during mystical mountain encounters but also in the mundane and difficult aspects of daily living. Rev. Parson urged the congregation to internalize these mountaintop experiences as essential fuel for their faith journey, enabling them to face life’s challenges with a deeper understanding of God’s enduring power and grace. He concluded by reinforcing the call to listen to Jesus, both in moments of awe and amidst the trials of life, emphasizing that true salvation and divine greatness are most evident when we engage actively with the world around us.
So I think there is something like deep in my genes that makes me want to just be on top of a hill, looking outward. Maybe it’s some kind of primal animal instinct. I want to be able to spot wolves or a tiger approaching from as much of a distance as possible. But I just feel really anxious.
In a valley at the bottom of a mountain, unable to see out far around me. There’s just something that I find so disconcerting about, for example, you drive out in the middle of Pennsylvania in fall or winter. You wind along the flatlands between the ridges, you know, and you pass these farms and these fields that are already in the twilight at like 1pm. I hate that.
I can’t imagine living in that environment. My grandmother lived up on top of a small hill in Portersville in Butler County. She had a line of tall pines that were lined up in front of the house on that hill. And every spring, she would have my uncle trim those trees.
She’d have him remove all the branches up 10 feet or so to ensure that she had a clean line of sight to the road, beyond that, including to her arch enemies who lived on the opposite slope. She wanted to be able to see. That’s what she always said. I want to be able to see.
And I completely get that now. I want to be able to see, and I cannot stand when that’s not possible. Mountaintops on the other hand, on like the bottom of a hill, are an almost mystical kind of place for me every time I’m on one. And that’s obviously not just me.
That’s like, that’s a human thing. Throughout scripture, God is worshipped and encountered on mountaintops. We heard about two of them in our scripture readings today. You have Mount Sinai, you have Mount Carmel where Elijah calls the power of God down.
You have Mount Zion, also known as Jerusalem. One of the first people to try to climb Mount Everest, named George Mallory, was memorably asked why he wanted to climb the mountain. And his response was famously, Because it’s there. They call out to us somehow.
I myself have had so-called mountaintop experiences. A sunset on a ridge in Guatemala probably marked the moment that I felt God called me into ministry. That’s a long story for some other time. But that was a mountaintop experience.
Four years or so after that, probably almost exactly, I found myself having reached the summit of Snake Mountain, a piece of the border between North Carolina and Tennessee, shortly before another sunset, completely by myself. Snake Mountain is located maybe a mile past a popular state park in North Carolina, Elk Knob. Elk Knob has this well-kept gravel path to the top. It’s complete with a nice observation deck up there, a good wooden deck.
There’s a good parking lot at the bottom. There’s no parking lot or gravel path on Snake Mountain. It’s almost entirely someone’s privately owned land that they choose to leave open to hikers. The trail entrance is tucked at the end of a cow pasture on the road up to Tennessee.
And you have to know what you’re looking for if you’re going there. There’s not some big state park sign or something. And so I parked my car at about two or three in the afternoon. I spontaneously had decided to give the hike a try after someone at church had recommended it.
And then I saw no one for hours. I passed one couple coming out as I began to climb, and then I saw nobody else on the whole mountain. I pushed it a little bit too hard for the first half. I almost passed out about a third of the way up the mountain in the darkest, deepest part of the forest by myself, which would have ruined the day.
But I did end up just lying flat on the path and got up and made it the rest of the way. And I made it in about two hours or so. And the woods at the top of the mountain opened up to this wide grassland as I got above the tree line. And I walked in the sun towards the rock faces at the very top.
It was a pointed, like, rocky mountain at the top. And as I made it to the base of these rocks that crowned the mountain, I found myself standing in this thicket of blueberry bushes that encircled almost the entire peak. And I just, I was surprised. I was delighted at that.
I picked and I ate more blueberries than I could count. And there was just such a sense of wonder in that for me. I made it all this way and not only got this incredible view, this accomplishment, but was also met with an unexpected snack. It was like, it reminded me of manna, you know? God had just given something.
And I scaled the rock all the way up to the top. I found the summit marker, you know, those little copper things that the USGS nails in. And then I sat for quite some time. I looked in every direction.
And there’s nothing quite like that feeling of having made it to the top of a mountain, whether that’s Mount Everest or a mountain like this one that’s like a fifth of that height max. And then after a long while, I noticed the sky was starting to get that evening gold to it. It’s going to get dark. I made my way down.
And when I’d just about gotten to where I almost passed out a few hours earlier, now really dim amidst the trees, I heard loud and clear a pack of coyotes yipping and howling and very obviously getting closer. I found myself basically running that last third of the journey down the mountain, burning through all those mountain blueberry calories. I made it back to the car, got home before dark. And that sense of real victory and experience that I still feel about that day, I still carry it with me.
That was a big, important achievement. Not really, but it felt like it. In Celtic societies, Ireland, Scotland, Northern France, there’s this traditional notion of thin places. If you’ve ever heard that before.
And that’s a geographical location where the barrier between earth and heaven, the everyday and the supernatural, seems to be almost transparent. You’re just closer to it. And almost every mountaintop, I think, is one of those. We feel in those places like we’re closer to God.
Not just because we’re higher up, obviously, but there’s something spiritually about it. And so it’s no surprise that in today’s gospel reading from Luke, what’s known as the transfiguration happens at the top of a mountain, as Jesus is transformed before the eyes of three of his closest disciples. And we think about this as a moment where Jesus just starts to glow and all his clothes turn white or something like that. But the way that it’s expressed in Luke, this word for transfiguration, is the same word that is used for a caterpillar that goes into a cocoon and comes out a butterfly.
It’s a complete transformation. So the disciples with Jesus have gone seeking the face of God at the top of that mountain. Luke, more than all the other gospel writers, draws our attention to that, to why they’re going up there. Luke, unlike Matthew and Mark, points out that the four men are going up there specifically to pray.
That’s why they’re going. It’s not Jesus taking them on a mysterious trip. They’re going to pray. All of them, Jesus included, are tapping into this notion that there are places where God can be met in a special way.
And so together they climb this peak. We don’t know which mountain it is. This unnamed peak. What they’re not expecting is just how powerful and head-on this vision, this approach to God is going to be.
As he kneels in prayer, Jesus’ face is transformed. His clothes flash like lightning, Luke says. And suddenly he’s with two men who are so visibly holy that they can only be Moses and Elijah. They, like Jesus, are clothed in heavenly splendor.
And we’re not given any details about what they talk about. But they talk to Jesus about his coming departure from Jerusalem. The literal translation for departure there is Exodus, which I think is really interesting. Jesus is leading in Exodus.
And so it’s funny. Luke tells us that Peter and James and John are about to doze off when all of this happens. Though they manage to stay awake, Luke says, to see it happen. But it’s as if, despite their mountaintop destination and Peter’s very recent declaration that Jesus is the Messiah, that’s the story that happens right before this.
Peter’s the first one to say it. Jesus, I believe that you are the Messiah. Even though that just happened, even though they’re going to the top of the mountain to seek God, it doesn’t seem like they’re really expecting God to show up if they’re falling asleep. It’s kind of relatable, I think.
How often do you and I really expect God to show up? Even right here. Even whenever we affirm in a couple minutes that the bread and the wine are Christ’s body and blood, right here. When do we expect it? But heaven rips through into our world right before their eyes. And they have no idea what to do.
They went up there to seek God. Here he is. What now? They have no idea. James and John presumably just stand there with their jaws on the ground.
And Peter, who’s always desperate to do something, which you’ve got to admire, proposes constructing three shrines at the top of the mountain to memorialize the moment. One for Moses, one for Elijah, one for Jesus. Memorialize this moment. Build something here to show what happened.
And we can assume that Jesus shakes his head and the disciples are immediately engulfed in this cloud of the Lord’s presence that once surrounded Moses on Sinai as he spoke to God. Whenever God is there, there’s this tangible kind of atmospheric change. And they’re overtaken with awe. Whatever Peter was saying, he’s not saying anything anymore.
And at that moment, we see what is called a theophany. This is one of the theophanies of the Bible. And a theophany just means a direct appearance of God to human beings. And God speaks to them and says, This is my son, my chosen one.
Listen to him. And with that, that’s the finale, everything returns to the way it was moments before as they stand on the heights of that quiet mountain. They went up to pray and they have received the answer to their prayer, regardless of what they asked for, they got an answer. This is my son, the chosen one, the Father says to them.
Listen to him. That’s it. And what comes next, and I think this is fair to say, is evidence that this theophany failed to catch. The very next day, down from the mountain, Jesus and his disciples meet a large crowd as they often do.
They’re out on the road and people find them, they’ve heard that Jesus is a healer, is a teacher. And in that crowd, another father, interesting, right, introduces his son, who is possessed by an unclean spirit that torments him. And here the disciples, who have just been on the mountain heights, seen the face of God, encounter the face of the demonic, of darkness. But it seems like they have completely lost touch with what they witnessed and heard on the mountaintop.
They have been entirely unable, the guy has been begging them before he comes to Jesus, the disciples have been entirely unable to do anything about this demon, even though their faces, if Moses’ example holds, they’re probably still literally glowing from having encountered the power of God. That is how real God is to them right now. And yet, when the rubber hits the road, they don’t listen to him. They don’t go out and minister in his power, the power that they have just seen.
They’re helpless, or at least they think they’re helpless, which makes them helpless. But the God that they met up there in the cloud is also the God who ends up looking that demon in the eye and cast it out. And so Jesus heals the boy himself because the disciples didn’t know they could. The God who is high and lifted up, the God on the mountaintop in the cloud is also the God who’s down in the dirt with the poor, the oppressed, those stricken by demons.
That’s always been true. It’s still true. Listen to him and take his power seriously, the Father says. Whatever so-called mountaintop experiences we’ve had with God, whether on a literal mountaintop, in a pew, alone on your couch, we have to treasure those things, and not just in the moment.
We have to carry them down the mountain with us, cornerstones of our faith, as fuel for the journey into the dark valleys that we’ll all walk into. That’s why they’re given to us. That sweetness, that great gift of God that nourishes our souls on top of the mountain is what keeps us energized and carrying on when the coyotes come on the descent. And this is what Lent’s supposed to be about, by the way.
Lent is practice. Lent’s conditioning for the spiritual trials that we face in the world. Lent is an annual journey when we, disciples of Jesus, like James and Peter and John, symbolically join him on his descent from the mountain. This is the high point of the book.
As we go into Luke, it is from the transfiguration on that he turns his face towards Jerusalem, towards the cross, towards the suffering and the death that he faced for us and with us. This is the fuel for what is to come. And so our constant challenge of faith is bridging the distance between the mountain peaks and the deepest valleys as we meet God in those thin places, which are, as we all know, far rarer than the darker places. And then we do our best to hold on to something that is impossible to contain.
And the reality is that, of course, we, like James and Peter and John, encounter God far more readily on the mountaintop. And we want to see, we want to be able to see. We commune with God in those moments of glory. We feel the radiant light on our skin.
We taste that sweet sustenance that’s provided to us there. But it takes a commitment to growth in the spirit, to constantly seeking God in prayer, to really be pushing in on our own whenever we’re not up there, to really come to know that God is just as present, just as powerful in polar opposite moments. So look, notice here in our Luke passage that we just went through, that we see only one life-changing miracle of salvation happen. Just one.
Notice that it’s not on the mountaintop. As wonderful as all that was, as impactful as all that was, as moving, no, salvation breaks through at the foot of the mountain. In the depths of the darkness, Jesus looks at the devil in the eye, tells him to get out. He saves that young boy from the torment that has long afflicted him.
That is where salvation is. And the demons, this is interesting too, the demons sure listen to Jesus. They understand what it means that he’s the son of God. Even if the disciples don’t, they’ve been told, This is my son, the chosen one.
Listen to him. They can’t, but the demons can. And again, just as the disciples were filled with awe on the mountaintop, here in this site of pain and struggle in the midst of everyday life, Luke says, Everyone was overwhelmed by God’s greatness, even though they didn’t see this majestic cloud, they didn’t see Jesus’ robes flash like lightning, they didn’t see Moses and Elijah, but there when that boy was saved, everyone was overwhelmed by God’s greatness. The voice of God has spoken to us too, the same thing.
This is my son, my chosen one. Listen to him. You and I know who he is. We’ve committed our lives to him.
Wherever we are, at the highest heights or the lowest depths, that command remains the same. Listen to him. The Jesus who was up there, well, he’s also down here. He’s still clothed in the same power.
He’s still transforming lives and breaking chains and working liberation in ways that we’ll never see if we only meet him on the mountaintop. In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
This Tuesday (also known as Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras), Fairhaven will host the annual Mardi Gras celebration fundraiser.
Share in a dessert smorgasbord and participate in a fun live auction.
If you are able bring a new item for the auction and a dessert to share. Auction items must be new and can also be handmade.
It is a fun night of delights and deals! Wear your purple, green and gold!
The fun begins at 6:30 P.M.
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