Like a Seed

A Community-Based, Online Lenten Series

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• View week two's responses (English and en español)

This lectionary series uses the farmworkers’ agricultural background to help us walk together as we discover in God's Word the path of the life, freedom and justice that Jesus followed, which finally brought him to the cross.  The series will continue through Lent and culminate with the readings from Easter Sunday where we will explore how the seed that God has planted is giving life and hope. 

We invite you to read the passages, think about the questions and then return each week to this Web site where a summary of the farmworkers’ insights and questions will be posted.  If you wish to share your thoughts with the farmworkers, you may do so by sending an email that we will forward to them.

 “Like A Seed” has been prepared by the Rev. Miguel Fernando Estrada Salvador, the pastor of Misión Peniel in Immokalee, Fla.  Misión Peniel is a Reformed spiritual community with farmworkers and is supported by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.  The farmworkers who participate in this community come from reformed churches in Guatemala and Mexico or have been drawn to the witness of the Presbyterian Church through our work in Immokalee.

Ash Wednesday

Title: Selecting a Field to Sow

Scripture: 2 Peter 1.16-21

Questions for reflection:
a. What is the foundation of the Christian experience?

b. What does God’s revelation mean to you personally? 

c. How does it affect your life?

d. What is the role of the community?

Read the responses in english or en español.

First Sunday in Lent

Title: Danger in the Field of Life

Scripture: Gen. 2.15-17; 3.1-7

Questions for reflection:
a. What was the role and what were the responsibilities of Adam and Eve in the original creation?

b. What does Satan use to tempt Adam and Eve?

c. Do they have any other options?  What are they?

Read the responses in english or en español.

Second Sunday in Lent

Title: The Germination Miracle

Scripture: John 3.1-17

Questions for reflection:
a. How does a seed produce life?

b. Is it possible that a seed could produce a different kind of fruit?

c. If we take Jesus as a seed, what is his fruit?

Read the responses in english or en español.

Third. Sunday in Lent

Title: Without Water there is not Harvest

Scripture: Exodus. 17.1-7; John 4.5-42

Questions for reflection:
a. Why is water important to us?

b. Does having problems mean that God is absent?

c. What kind of water does Jesus provide?

d. Which field, said Jesus, is ready for harvest?

Fourth. Sunday in Lent

Title: The Marvelous Photosynthesis

Scripture: Eph. 5.8-14

Questions for reflection:
a. What do you experience when you are in a dark place?

b. What is the importance of sunlight for living?

c. What happens when you have God’s light in your heart?