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Parkway United Church of Christ
Weekly E-news
June 10, 2016
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Worship with us this Sunday!
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Join us this Sunday for Traditional Worship at 9:30am and/or Informal Worship at 11:00am when our scriptures will be
Psalm 5:1-8; Luke 7:41-50 with a sermon entitled Been in Sin. How do you define sin? What are the nature and causes of sin? What brings us back into right relationship with self, others and the Holy after we have turned away? How can our faith make us well? How do we make sense of the story Jesus tells in the Gospel Lesson and how he interacts with the woman at Simon's house?
Gayle Engel - Honored at CAG this weekend
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Adult Education - June 12
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Prayer Updates
MMS CAG -
Our Missouri Mid-South Conference Annual Gathering in Columbia.
Doug Watson
- in the midst of treatments for cancer.
K
yle Schwent -
marathon healing in rehab (Pat Feeney & Rhett)
June Black
- died over the weekend (cousin of Gloria Wandless).
Bret Corrington
- awaiting heart transplant (son of Mary Pederson).
Into the Mystic is the Rev. John C. Dorhauer's weekly podcast on UCC.org.
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Pride Fest St Louis - the weekend of Sunday, June 26
"To foster an understanding of and equality for the LGBTQ community in the general population by raising awareness through educational programs and events ultimately leading up to the annual PrideFest in St. Louis."
Our Gateway ONA UCC churches have had a strong presence at Pride for several years. We need help Staffing the Tent -
volunteers are needed! To register for a 2 hour shift, please contact Ron Hill by phone at 314-968-1286 or by email at: [email protected]. When you contact Ron, he needs your name, church, email address and cell phone number.
Our goal is to have eight people present for each two hour shift - so you won't be alone! Here is the schedule:
Saturday, June 25 |11:00am - 9:30pm
Sunday,
June 26 |11am-7:30pm
We are hoping for lots of participation in the Parade on Sunday at noon again this year too. We will gather at First Congregational Church of St. Louis (on Wydown). We hope to be a large colorful representation of our United Church of Christ. If you are willing to be a part of this major event - Please contact Hannah Rice [email protected] or call the church office at: 314-721-5060.
Our PUCC Pride Fest coordinator is Greg Schmelig. Please contact him with any questions -
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STL Bread Co
Located at Manchester & 270. Join us! Questions? Contact: Pastor Kevin: 314-872-9330 or [email protected].
Tuesday Evening Dialogue (TED) June 14
2nd & 4th Tuesdays | 6:00-8:30pm | Heritage Room | Potluck & Discussion
This Tuesday we conclude our study of When Breath Becomes Air. At our June 28 gathering, instead of a book, we will work through a list of questions that the Confirmands have learned in their classes. Three of us did this at AE and didn't finish all of them. It reminds us of questions like: How many books are in the Bible to theological questions. We will try this for one night and see how we like it and how far we get. Come and see how much you remember of your own confirmation and how your own theology has changed over the years.
This is a new format: there is no assigned reading and no book to buy. Just come.
Join us first & third Thursdays 6:45pm in Pastor Kevin' s office for silent prayer. We conclude by prayerfully considering one of the Scripture readings for the upcoming Sunday service. Contact Tom Maxeiner: 314-692-7391
Register for MAD Camp VBS!
Volunteer Opportunity: Serving Pastries
There are several openings throughout the summer. See the signup sheet in the Gathering Space.
Summer Music During the summer months when the choir does not sing, we invite members, both adults and youth, to provide special instrumental or vocal music for the 9:30 service. If you would like to share your musical gifts with us over the summer, please speak with Barbara Raedeke or contact her at [email protected]. We are blessed with many musically talented members here at Parkway, and we hope they will make this important contribution to our worship!
Our Business is Mission. How's Business?
Over the past few months Church Council, Tuesday Evening Dialogue (TED) and others at PUCC have read John Dorhauer's book Beyond Resistance: The Institutional Church Meets the Postmodern World. We have read it, prayed on it, and have discussed its implications to Parkway. And, we have discovered in our discussions the need to KEEP talking about how we as a congregation will ensure our church remains relevant in a postmodern culture.
In the late summer/early fall all Parkway members and friends are asked to continue this important discussion. Over the summer we ask you to read Dorhauer's Beyond Resistance to reach your own opinions. Books will be available for purchase in the church office, along with a few loaners from Council or TED participants! For those unable to read the book-fear not! A synopsis will be available as background at the June 5th congregational meeting and on-line.
Whether you have read the book or not-starting mid-August a series of one session, small group gatherings will be held in homes, at the coffee shop, at church to hear your thoughts and ideas.
How do you describe
the identity of PUCC? What changes are possible and necessary for PUCC in the postmodern culture? What are we not willing to change? What change can we accept? What is the future mission of PUCC? How do you talk about PUCC to others? What three words best describe PUCC's mission?
We hope that many, many of you will participate in these discussions of our identity and our mission.
Learn more about these plans at the Congregational meeting, June 5. For more information contact Karen Boyd for the Evangelism Commission, ([email protected]) or Pastor Kevin.
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Joke
Erik:
Why did the robot go on summer vacation?
Sarah: I haven't a clue.
Erik: He needed to recharge his batteries.
Inspiration
I'd like for them to say:
He took a few cups of love.
He took one tablespoon of patience,
One teaspoon of generosity,
One pint of kindness.
He took one quart of laughter,
One pinch of concern.
And then, he mixed willingness with happiness.
He added lots of faith,
And he stirred it up well.
Then he spread it over a span of a lifetime,
And he served it to each and every deserving person he met.
~Muhammed Ali
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Video of the Week
Maya Angelou video on being a rainbow in someone's life
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