Community Meal & Closet
On the 2nd Friday of each month, from 4:30-6pm, St. Paul’s Community Meal and Closet provides a free meal and clothing for all.
Upcoming dates:
March 14, 2025
April 11, 2025
May 9, 2025
Help Save Lives!
Click on or copy and paste the link below to schedule an appointment for our next blood drive.
https://www.redcrossblood.org/
The Fellowship Committee invites you to a delicious pancake dinner on Shrove Tuesday!
Shrove Tuesday is the last day before the Lent season of fasting leading up to Easter. The expression “Shrove Tuesday” comes from the word shrive, meaning absolution following confession. Christians traditionally visit their church on Shrove Tuesday to confess their sins and clean their soul, thus being shriven (absolved) before the start of Lent. The holiday is observed in many Christian countries by participating in confession and absolution, the ritual burning of the previous year’s Holy Week palms, finalizing one’s Lenten sacrifice, and eating pancakes and other sweets.
Join us on March 5, 2025, at 7:00 pm, as we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a solemn service of repentance and renewal.Come and worship as we begin this holy season together.
Lack of access to safe water is one of the biggest challenges to overcoming poverty. It’s also one of the most powerful opportunities to create change. With a simple water well, spring box or other water point, as many as 500 families gain access to clean, safe water.
The Social Welfare and Evangelism Committees are asking for your participation in this year’s Lenten giving project. We will be raising money to help provide families around the world with access to safe drinking water. We are so privileged to have daily access to drinking water in our homes, schools, and businesses. For many people hours and hours each day are spent trying to gather water for their families and loved ones. Very often this water is polluted or in some way unsafe to drink. The ELCA helps bring simple wells and other water sources to communities in need.
Look for details and how you can contribute in the coming weeks. In advance, thank you for your consideration.
Cindy Lash and Kathryn Myers
Don’t forget to spring forward!
Our Cathedral Concert Series continues with OPUS 216 on Sunday, March 9th, 2025, at 4:00 PM.
Founded in 2012 by violinist Ariel Clayton Karas, OPUS 216 has appeared in every major venue in northeast Ohio, from special events at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, to public and private events at Rocket Mortgage Field House, Progressive Field, Holden Arboretum, Severance Hall, the Cleveland History Center, Cleveland Botanical Gardens, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and special events for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, among others. OPUS 216 is the only independent, string-based ensemble listed as a preferred vendor for events at several of Cleveland’s largest institutions. We do live music well.
Through the season of Lent, churches in the Massillon area will once again join together for worship and Holy Communion, rotating locations and preachers. Our focus this year is “The Five Themes of Lent.”
- A light dinner of soup and salad will be served at 5:30pm.
- Then at 6:30pm, we will worship together in the style of the host congregation. Child care may be provided.
Offerings will go to the Family Living Center, which provides housing for local families in need.
March 12th – St. Paul’s Lutheran
Rev. David Oliver Kling preaching on prayer
127 Cherry Rd NE, Massillon, OH 44646
March 19th – St. Timothy’s Episcopal
Rev. Ash Welch preaching on fasting
226 3rd St SE, Massillon, OH 44646 *incense will be used
March 26th – St. John’s UCC
Rev. Tina Crog preaching on almsgiving
101 Tremont Ave SE, Massillon, OH 44646
April 2nd – First UMC
Rev. David Anderson preaching on penitence
301 Lincoln Way E, Massillon, OH 44646
April 9th – First Baptist Church
Rev. Ed Hill preaching on repentance
20 Sixth St. SE, Massillon, OH 44646
Click here for the full calendar.
Click here for the Cathedral Concert Series page