Lent is the church's season for inviting everyone to make changes, to do a little internal house-cleaning with God: air out one's clogged relationships, add a loving accessory to one's heart mantle and spend time offering acts of service to God's world.

Having just completed our Spirit Week pantry drive, we will be focusing on two needs this spring:

1. Harveyville, Kansas: we will be inviting donations for a cyber-bake sale to benefit this small community that lost nearly half of their town from a recent tornado. So we invite people to make commitments to bake something. Then we offer to sell the items and all you do is e-mail what you'd like. From there, you send a check and your student brings it home. So stay tuned. This is a lot of fun!

2. Haiti: We will be raising funds again for our sister school in Haiti. This fund-raiser seems to define us in some ways for it's one that every age group can participate in. The ECC has been taking daily offerings in chapel this year. A few motivated students have already held events to raise funds for Haiti. But soon, the official fund-raising will begin. Individuals and grade-levels will be invited to step up to the plate and do something for Haiti. Our goal is an ambitious one: $12,000 in order that students in the school might have lunch. We have done it before so we can do this again.