Five Fox Valley United Methodist churches will co-sponsor an annual community Ash Wednesday service to open Lent at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 26, at Wesley UMC, 14 N. May Street in Aurora.
The public is invited. Admission and parking are free. Donations will be accepted to benefit Aurora area farmers affected by poor growing conditions.
Partner churches are Sugar Grove UMC, Kaneville UMC, and Flowing Forth UMC, Wesley UMC and Bethany of Fox Valley UMC, all in Aurora.
Pastors will serve communion, read scripture passages and impose ashes on attendees’ foreheads or hands. A lay person from each partner church will offer a reflection. A combined choir of vocalists from the churches will offer music.
—Al Benson