Parents!  Don’t miss our last PandaMania VBS Revival Night!
Saturday, April 14th from 5:30 - 9:00PM
All kids preschool through 5th grade are welcome!
Price will be $15 (max $50 per family)
They will have to register via email (VBS@amlinumc.org ), phone (560-9467), paper in bulletin or at the door. 

REGISTRATION (The online registration is no longer available)
Step 1: Download this form: Adobe reader (pdf) or Microsoft Word.
Step 2: Fill it out and email it here or bring it to the door with you when you come.

If you want to check out a great video from our last revival night, Click here.

Valentine’s Day Breakfast
Sunday, Feb. 12 at 8:30 a.m.
(Fellowship Hall)

Winter Mission Trip
Friday 17th to Canton, Ohio.
We are looking for 16 people to work with the Hammer and Nails organization and do interior work for people in need. We will leave Friday the 17th, stay 3 nights and return the afternoon of Monday the 20th. To express an interest or for more information in this trip please call John Hoffman at 614-876-9450.

Ash Wednesday Service
Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 7:00 p.m.
(Chapel)

More Information
For more information about these events or what else is coming up, please download our monthly newsletter!

Lent is upon us! Many of us are on fire spiritually. I see it in the lives of people living differently, growing in faith,and sharing God’s love with the world. But I also must be honest and blunt. Too many of us in the Amlin family haven’t been to church in quite a while, some of us worship infrequently, and some of us faithfully attend more out of habit or duty than anything else. Since my arrival in July, I have come to deeply love the people of this church. I believe that God is calling all of us, even the lukewarm, to greatness!

Lent begins on February 26th with our 7:00 pm Ash Wednesday service. I hope you join us! Lent is a time of spiritual and religious focus as we symbolically walk with Jesus to the cross and to the victory of Resurrection. What could be more important?!

Lent creates our best opportunity to step into the excitement that comes with a vital faith. For this reason, worship attendance often jumps this time of year. Lent is a season that some have described as “spring cleaning for the soul.” It’s traditionally a time of self-denial and discipline. Perhaps the best definition of discipline is: Remembering what it is that you really want. So in your spiritual life, what is it that you really want?

Many years ago, my spirituality professor helped me to realize that I needed to expect big things with God. It is so true! Have you stopped expecting big, exciting things with God? During Lent, we all have an opportunity to do a new thing. But I believe the best way to do a new thing with God is to expect that God will connect with us!

I challenge you to do something challenging this Lent. Be in church every single week. Shake off the spiritual cobwebs and challenge yourself with our weekday Lenten series, 24 Hours That Changed the World. Open your Bible every day and read it. Pray. Do something new. Expect something big from God during Lent this year. I promise you, if you expect God to connect with you in a new and exciting way, it will happen. When we add some wood, God will eagerly set us ablaze again!

What’s worth $5 to you? How about an investment in the work of God in the world through the Church? It’s true: $5 can have a significant, even eternal impact in God’s economy.

The Finance Team and I invite you to participate in “The $5 Campaign”, which begins February 13 and runs through the end of this year. There are no pledge cards, no three-year commitments, no “campaign speeches”. We simply ask each person to give $5 per week above and beyond his/her regular offering. The money raised will go toward draining, repairing, and resurfacing the southeast parking lot, reducing the mortgage debt on the New Life Center, and if necessary to cover gaps between monthly income and expenses.

Wait, what do parking and debt reduction have to do with the work of God? Our property and facilities provide a “base of operations,” in and from which we share the Good News of God’s love in Jesus with our “neighbors” and world. Also taking the money for the parking lot out of our regular giving and continuing to carry a large debt would/will take money away from other, more direct life-changing ministries. The more proactively we work to raise these funds above and beyond our regular giving, the more we will be able to develop and support ministries to feed the hungry, care for children, engage young people, empower leaders, deepen faith, and inspire hope, while at the same time being responsible stewards of our property.

The enclosed brochure will both inspire and inform you. Please read it, pray about it, and respond courageously and generously. Thank you for all you do and give to participate in God’s work through the Church.

Download a Brochure

Serving with you,
Rev. Steve Putka
Pastor

Bruce Kerr
Administrative Board Chair

Bob Meyer
Finance Team Chair