Adult Education during Lent

This Lent, we invite you to lace up your spiritual walking shoes—though mercifully, you can do most of this pilgrimage in comfortable seating and sensible footwear. Calvin will travel together through Lent this year in a series called “The Way,” a shared journey of reflection, repentance, and renewal that leads us through the wilderness of Lent and into the bright dawn of Easter.

Lent is a time of reflection, and there is nothing like a pilgrimage to conjure that up. Across cultures and centuries, human beings have marked sacred journeys with intention and prayer. Inspired by the many biblical images of roads, paths, and wilderness wanderings, we will make our way together this season—trusting the promise of God: “I am about to do a new thing… I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert” (Isaiah 43:19).

Historically, Christians have long understood pilgrimage as a spiritual practice. When travel to the Holy Land became dangerous in the Middle Ages, labyrinths emerged as a symbolic “stand-in” for the sacred journey. In recent decades, labyrinths—like Calvin’s—have reemerged as places of prayerful walking. Throughout Lent, we will offer invitations to walk, reflect, and listen for God along your own “way.”

Our worship series will follow the contours of this journey:

Ash Wednesday – “The Way Back”

Lent One – “The Wandering Way”

Lent Two – “The High Way”

Lent Three – “The Way Around”

Lent Four – “The Way Home”

Lent Five – “The Free Way”

Lent Six/Palm Sunday – “The Other Way”

Holy Week – “The Loving Way”

Easter Sunday – “Make Your Way”