Lent is the forty-day season of the church year beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Easter Morning. It takes its name from an ancient Anglo-Saxon word referring to the lengthening of the daylight hours over the season’s seven weeks. It is a welcomed season of growth after the cold, dark winter. - Growth in the natural world, but also a parallel growth that can happen in the spiritual dimension of our lives.

     Lent has traditionally been a season of preparation and self-examination as we reflect on Good Friday’s cross and anticipate Easter’s resurrection. During these weeks, we are invited to a more deliberate and disciplined practice of prayer, worship, study, and service. 

Konnoak Hills Moravian 2026

Here at Konnoak Hills, we will begin our season of Lent together with an Ash Wednesday service on February 18th. This service begins at 6pm and will include music, reflection, a time to consider Lenten devotions, and the imposition of ashes (if you wish to receive). 

Each Wednesday during Lent, you are invited to a midweek Lenten gathering led by Pastor Jeff Coppage called “Seeking God’s Will for the Journey”. Each week will begin with a simple meal at 5:30pm, followed by a Biblical look at questions such as:
● Must a Christian accept everything that happens as the will of God?
● Can humans act in ways contrary to God’s will?
● Where is God in the midst of suffering? What does the cross of Christ tell us about God’s
will?
● How do we discern God’s will when making decisions? - As Individuals? - As families
and churches?
 
Our resource will be the Leslie Weatherhead’s classic “The Will of God”

(optional, available for $7)

We hope you will make some time to join us during this meaningful season of deepening faith and fellowship. 

      Beginning March 29, Palm Sunday, we will gather each evening at 7:00 for Holy Week Reading Services. Copies of Readings for Holy Week, the story of the events leading to the Crucifixion and Resurrection taken from the four Gospels, will be available at each service.

      On Maundy Thursday, April 2nd, we will celebrate the Holy Communion on the anniversary of the night the Savior shared his last meal before his death.

     On Good Friday, April 3, the death of Jesus will be observed with the sharing of the Lovefeast and the reading of the death passages from Readings for Holy Week.

     The April 4^th Great Sabbath  observance of Jesus’ rest in the grave will draw many of us to God’s Acre at 9:00 a.m. to tend the graves of those who have preceded us in death. Our band will play chorales from the copula of the Archives Building in the morning. In the evening, the Great Sabbath Service of Music sponsored by the twelve churches of Salem Congregation will begin at 7:00 at Home Moravian Church.

     The Easter Sunrise Service  will begin early Sunday morning, April 5th, in the pre-dawn hour on Salem Square. The Rev. Joe Moore of Ardmore Moravian, will preside at the service, beginning at 6:15am. The celebration will continue with the 10:00 Resurrection Day  service of worship in our sanctuary. (There will be no Sunday school on this day.)