Lent at GSUMC

Lent is often described as a journey—but long journeys don’t begin with movement. They begin with preparation.

This Lenten season, our worship series Renewed in Mercy invites us to slow down, prepare our hearts, and encounter God’s grace with fresh eyes. Even though we walk this path year after year, God’s mercy persistently meets us as something new—renewing us, reshaping us, and restoring us along the way.

Guided by Scripture and grounded in the Wesleyan understanding of grace, each week explores how God’s mercy accompanies us through temptation, transformation, reconciliation, restoration, and new life. From the wilderness road with Jesus, to the quiet assurance of Psalm 23, to the promise of resurrection at Lazarus’ tomb, we are reminded that repentance is not only turning away from sin—it is turning toward God’s renewing work in the world.

This Lent, we invite you to practice a “beginner’s mind”: releasing expectations, paying attention to where grace is already at work, and opening yourself anew to the mercy that makes confession, healing, and hope possible.

Come and be renewed in mercy—one step at a time.