{"id":116923,"date":"2026-02-18T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116923\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T09:03:12","slug":"white-oaks-faith-lutheran-church-hosting-annual-ash-and-dash-event-for-start-of-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116923\/","title":{"rendered":"White Oak&#8217;s Faith Lutheran Church hosting annual &#8220;Ash and Dash&#8221; event for start of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Ash Wednesday, which marks the official start of Lent, a 40-day period observed by many Christians worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Churches throughout the Pittsburgh area will be holding Ash Wednesday services, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/ash-wednesday-ash-dash-event-faith-lutheran-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Faith Lutheran Church in White Oak is hosting its annual &#8220;Ash and Dash<\/a>&#8221; for people on the go.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This will be the church&#8217;s 11th year of &#8220;Ash and Dash&#8221; at Faith Lutheran, where\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/faith-lutheran-church-in-white-oak-hosting-annual-ash-and-dash-for-ash-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">people can get ashes in their vehicle before heading off to work or school.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a great way for those who cannot make it to Ash Wednesday service due to work schedules, mobility, etc.,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1GfHaf4En6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">church said on its Facebook page<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Faith Lutheran is offering the drive-through ashes starting at 6 a.m. and going until 9 a.m. in the church&#8217;s parking lot along Lincoln Way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The church will also be offering ashes inside the church from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and will be holding an Ash Wednesday service at 7 p.m. this evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Ash Wednesday, which marks the official start of Lent, a 40-day period observed by many Christians worldwide.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[50854,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-116923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-lent","9":"tag-pittsburgh","10":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","11":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}