Tell Me Something Good: Grounding ourselves in the good news this lent by A Sanctified Art LLC | sanctifiedart.org
Lent at FPC
Services this Lent at FPC
In person and on Facebook Live
Sundays at 11:00am
Special evening services are at 6:00pm
Ash Wednesday, February 18: All Are Invited
Community Worship hosted at FPC at 6:00pm
Communion will be served
In community with:
Covington First United Methodist Church
Grace United Methodist Church
Gum Creek Presbyterian Church
February 22: The good news is so good it catches us by surprise
March 1: The good news is great love for God & neighbor
Undie Sunday:
Collecting new underwear donations to support our siblings in Christ experiencing homelessness
March 8: The good news is together, the impossible is possible
Communion will bee served
March 15: The good news is protection and care for the vulnerable
Friends from Habitat for Humanity will speak in worship and Sunday School
March 22: The good news is rooted in justice, mercy and faithfulness
Palm to Passion Sunday, March 29: The good news is inspiring us to act
Children’s Palm Parade
Our choir will guide us from Palm Sunday to Passion Sunday through a Lenten Cantata
Maundy Thursday, April 2: Worship at the Table
Worship be at 6:00pm and will include communion
We will expand on last year’s experiential worship
Good Friday, April 3: The Seven Last Words of Christ
Hosted by Grace United Methodist Church a community worship service at 6:00pm
Easter Sunday, April 12
The Good News is Alive in the World!
Easter Sunday Sunrise Service in the Garden at 6:45am
The Sunrise Service will not be livestreamed and will not include childcare, though children are invited!
Traditional Easter Sunday Service in the Sanctuary at 11:00am
Childcare and livestream will be available for the 11:00am service.
Easter Lily Dedications
If you would like to help decorate the Sanctuary with lilies on Easter Sunday, make a donation to honor or memorialize a loved one. To do so, fill out the form (available in the Narthex, in the e-news, or by clicking HERE) and attach cash or a check made out to FPC and place it in the offering plate or drop it off at the church office. Please put “lilies” in the memo space on your check or envelope.
Donations made online should be given under the dropdown fund option “Flowers-all”. Please email catherine@fpccov.org with your dedications if you give online.
The deadline to submit Easter dedications is Sunday, March 29, 2026. A minimum donation of $14 is suggested.
Whatever donations we collect over the cost of the flowers will be divided and contributed to Newton County Community Food Pantry and to our work with our Partner in Education Fairview Elementary School.
Thank you!
Lenten Lectio Divina: Devotional Study
Tuesdays at 12:00pm in the Parlor
Tell Me Something Good: grounding ourselves in the good news this Lent
Our 2026 Lenten series, “Tell Me Something Good: grounding ourselves in the good news this Lent” was created by the creative team at Sanctified Art. The following is their message on the theme and series.
Lent was originally a season for new converts to learn and prepare for their baptism on Easter. During that time, they would study what was central to Christianity. As we crafted this Lenten series, we studied what was central to Jesus’ life and ministry: radical welcome, love for neighbor, care for the vulnerable, nourishment for the hungry, nonviolence in the face of injustice. At the heart of Jesus’ teachings, we find liberation, love, mercy, and grace—all of which are meant to be very good news for us all.
Jesus’ ministry can be described as “radical” which comes from the Latin word “radicalis,” meaning “root” or “ground.” Therefore, the good news should bring us back to our roots. Emulating Jesus and embodying his teachings should ground us in who God created us to be. Can we be “good news” people in a world too often burdened by bad news?
This Lent, let us remember that the good news really is good news. It is joyful—like fine wine saved for celebration. It grows like a mustard seed and smells like perfume poured from an alabaster jar. It tastes like bread passed endlessly through a hungry crowd. It sounds like laughter and feels like mercy. The good news is alive in the world.
This Lent, let the teachings of Jesus lead us forward. May the good news inspire us to take action in a world desperate to hear, see, and taste what is good.