Changes are coming!
Feb 3rd & Feb 10 BOTH Confirmation classes will meet in person at church from 6:30-8pm.
During Lent (Feb 17-March 24) we will not have formal Confirmation Classes. Students will instead be required to view our Lenten worship services which will be live streamed on Wednesdays at 7pm on Salem’s Facebook page or posted later on our YouTube Channel and complete a Confirmation Worship Notes page for each week and turn it in each week (via email or drop it off at church).
Here is the schedule (for now):
1/27 6:30pm on Zoom YR 1 & 2 Killing & Adultery
2/3 6:30pm BOTH classes meet @ church
2/10 6:30pm BOTH classes meet @ church
(YR 3 has a Mentor Meal)
2/17 Live Stream worship @ 7pm
2/24 Live Stream worship @ 7pm
3/3 Live Stream worship @ 7pm
3/10 Live Stream worship @ 7pm
3/17 Live Stream worship @ 7pm
3/24 Live Stream worship @ 7pm
3/31 6:30pm BOTH classes meet @ church
(for Easter Egg coloring)
Following Easter, provided COVID cases continue to decrease in the county we will resume in person classes.
If you have questions regarding our program, please contact Marsha or Rev James Hoppert.
Join us for a Lenten Study
Mondays beginning February 22 at 6:30pm on Zoom. An in-person option may be available On Wednesdays at 10am (if there is interest)
*Please RSVP online at Lenten Study signup; to Marsha (call or text 838-1466 marsha@salemuccplywi.org) or to the church office (call: 892-7456 email: churchoffice@salemuccplywi.org ). Indicate if you plan to participate either in person or on Zoom so that the resources and/or login information is shared with you
Here is an overview of the study from the Work of the People:
Pain proposes perplexing questions:
- What is the meaning of pain?
- How can I survive it?
- What do I do with it?
However, Lent offers a way of grappling with pain; it invites us to look at our lives and our deepest longings for healing, restoration, and fulfillment. Often Lent is associated with sacrificially giving up something (often food-related, but it could also be habitual things), but there is another way to think about Lent as entering into a life of transformation. Traditionally, this was a time of reflection where some persons prepared themselves for baptism. It reflects the 40 days that Jesus entered into the desert to fast, reflect, and overcome temptation. In this way, Lent is not only about giving up, but also giving in and finding meaning in our deepest longings often formed by our woundedness and pain. The churning of the stomach reflects the hunger of the soul for meaning; the desire for sustenance mimics the cry of our being for wholeness and healing. Lent helps us to acknowledge that pain is not something that needs a quick fix, but a call for us to become fully human. These films are invitations to enter into a journey of making sense of our pain and woundedness. The curriculum that follows each film offers ways to reflect and find that place of pain, and at the same time, that place of wholeness and healing. Practices will be suggested as invitations to examine both our wounds and the wounds of others and see how we might bring peace and healing. The desert is a place void of easy fixes, but it can also be where we find who we truly are.
The series includes 6 sessions:
Session One: Surrendering to Pain
Session Two: Giving Voice to Pain
Session Three: The Making of the Scapegoat
Session Four: Forming Community out of Woundedness
Session Five: The Possibility of Wounds
Session Six: Sitting with the Wounded
