Ash Wednesday “Empty Bowls” Dinner & Worship

United Church of Chapel Hill 1321 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Chapel Hill

Empty Bowl Project & Soup Dinner (5:45 pm) We will have delicious homemade soups, a simple salad,  Buy a bowl of soup - take home a homemade bowl!  We have over 100 bowls for sale to raise money for the Interfaith Council.One hand made bowl and the dinner will sell for $20. Two bowls for $30. Please join us! Ash Wednesday Worship Service (7 pm) Ash Wednesday begins the 40 days of the season of Lent.  Lent is a time of preparation for the joy of Easter.   On Ash Wednesday human mortality is underscored (literally).  During the Ash Wednesday service there is the opportunity for ashes to be placed on our foreheads as a reminder of our mortality, our flesh.  . . you are dust and to dust you shall return . . .~Genesis 3:19.  But it also points to the one who created us, and thus the service becomes a pronouncement of hope and grace.