Lent 2024

40 Days On Mission

 

While steadily making his way to the cross to fulfill God’s redemptive plan for our rescue, Jesus offers these sobering words:

 

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”

Matthew 16:24-25 NIV

 

The season of Lent is one of five traditional seasons that has been observed by followers of Jesus dating back to the third century. It is a 40-day period that begins with Ash Wednesday. In many traditions, Lent has been a time for self-examination among followers of Jesus. It is often accompanied by acts of self-denial such as fasting or abstaining from something and is a time of preparation with the approach of Easter and the celebration of Jesus’s victorious resurrection.

 

We invite you to join our New Cov family as we participate in this Lenten season together, but with a very specific purpose.

 

Instead of giving-up something, or denying ourselves, for our own benefit this Lent, what would it look like for us to spend this season denying ourselves for something different?

 

40 Days on Mission is an opportunity to focus ourselves on God’s missional heart for our neighbors and the nations. It is a giving-up of a few minutes of our time each day to give attention to the cries of those in need both near and far, doing so by prayerfully focusing on a variety of ministries and agencies whose mission is to meet these needs.

 

How It Works

 

As you read about each organization, we invite you to pray for them and the work that they do. Some suggestions for prayer are:

 

Pray for the people that they serve - that needs will be met and lives changed.

Pray that those served would sense God’s love and provision and would begin to seek Him.

Pray for the workers and volunteers who are serving their particular demographic.

Pray for the leaders of the organizations - for wisdom and guidance as they seek to make an impact.

 

We encourage you to follow along each day or at your own pace. Our hope is that this experience will serve as an encouragement as you explore the various ways New Cov is connected to the work of God both near and far. We also hope this experience serves to expose you to something new and unique that God is doing, and in some cases, how he might be calling you to join him in that work.

 

Lastly, we hope this experience will refresh your spirit and the spirit of others while widening your perspective for all the ways God has invited us to join Him on Gospel-mission!

Week 1: February 14-17
Week 2: February 19-24
Week 3: February 26-March 2
Week 4: March 4-March 9
Week 5: March 11-March 16
Week 6: March 18-23
Week 7: March 25-31