Sauganash Community Church

02/18/2026

Today is Ash Wednesday, the liturgical start of the Lenten Season. If you would like to receive the imposition of ashes, please stop by sometime in the afternoon, schedule a time for me to stop by, or come to our Ash Wednesday service at 6pm tonight.

The Lenten season covers the forty days, not including Sundays, preceding Easter. Traditionally, it is a time for us to prepare our hearts for the story of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus--the most significant event to our life of faith. Often, it is a season of prayer and fasting, and our Catholic siblings are particularly known for "giving things up" during the season.

I think that can be a wonderful and meaningful practice, especially if there are things in your life that you know you probably shouldn't be indulging so much in--sweets, social media, too much television, coffee (God-forbid!)--it can be a great time to check-in and reset behaviors we know could be better. However, my preference in recent years has been to find things to add to my life of faith to make it richer or deeper or more significant to me in my day to day living. I have at times added daily devotional reading, Bible study, meditation, and prayer during Lent that has enriched my life and carried over into the time after Lent--at least for a little while.

I want to take this moment to invite you to prayerfully consider what would be helpful for you. Are there things you ought to be giving up? Things that are making it harder to live faithfully, for God's glory and neighbor's good? Now's the time to do so. But if there are things that you maybe aren't doing which would do you good, now is also the time to try them. If you haven't been to church in a while, perhaps it's time to give it a shot. If you haven't made time for Bible study, perhaps a reading plan on an app would be helpful (or our lunchtime group study Tuesdays at 12:30). I, myself, plan to add some prayer-walks to my practices at least a few times a week, which experience tells me are quite meditative and meaningful for me (plus, I could use the exercise).

Whatever you plan to do, know that you don't have to go it alone. The practice may be individual, but the season is communal. Let us all be transformed by the good work the Holy Spirit may be doing in us during this season.

11/28/2025

We are under a winter weather warning - for city warming center information, please follow this link: https://bit.ly/48y24c1

You can also call the Street Medicine Outreach Team at 773-256-7549.

10/25/2025

Please contact Maya Crowl-Kinney, our Resource Coordinator, at [email protected] or (773) 506-3623 to arrange your gift card donation, if you are able to help.

10/22/2025

Get yourself a pizza on a rainy Wednesday evening and help our preschool raise some funds

It’s Pizza Day!! 🍕Please support our school!

10/09/2025

Sign up if you can!

🗣 We still need a dozen volunteers to help run the gates at Oktoberfestiversary this weekend, particularly at the evening shifts.
Sign up >> https://volunteer.bloomerang.co:443/JE/pb3zu0f2hz26do

Perks of volunteering are:
* Short shifts, 3 -4 hours
* Having fun and meeting new people
* Making an impact! Last event we raised $50k+ to fight hunger.
* Festival volunteer t-shirt
* Beer vouchers to use after your shift Dovetail Brewery Begyle Brewing
* Must be 16 years old+

08/13/2025

The new sign is in!

07/04/2025

O LORD our God, who has cast our lot in pleasant places, we praise thee for our goodly heritage in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
We remember with gratitude those gifts of heart and mind and spirit that have fashioned this republic: the wisdom of the fathers who founded a society conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal; the consecration of good men and women who established this nation upon the enduring foundation of religion; the skill of scientist and inventor who unlocked the resources of this land to the end that all might benefit from nature's bounty; the persistence of educators who trained and trusted the common man in order that government of the people, by the people, for the people might be established and extended; the patriotism of those who offered the sweet blood of youth that liberty might not perish from the earth; and the skill and devotion of all those who gladly served that this nation might endure as a land of hope and glory.
Continue thy blessings, we pray thee, upon the nation thou hast led from perilous beginnings to this day of grace. Unite the many races of our people in bonds of understanding and mutual appreciation. Divinely guide our president and public officials. And grant that our citizens, united in spirit, may do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly before thee. Amen.--The Lectern: A Book of Public Prayers, Carl A. Glover, pp 192-194.

05/23/2025

Congratulations to our graduates!🎓

03/05/2025