Worship with Us this Sunday

Join us in person or on Facebook Live for worship this Sunday at 10am.

It’s PENTECOST – the Holy Spirit is given to all the people. It’s also considered by many to be the Birthday of the Church. Please consider wearing red as a sign of the fire and passion of the Holy Spirit.

Our scriptures tell the story of Pentecost’s wind, flame and ability to understand across different languages. We will also hear scriptures about other characteristics of this Holy Spirit.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0D4CA4AC23AB9-scripture1

Please consider signing up to be a worship leader and read scripture on an upcoming Sunday morning. Thank you! Questions? [email protected]

Please participate in worship virtually via our livestream on Facebook if that is convenient for you and/or if you have health concerns. Masks are available and respected here.

Spring Church School: Sharing God's Light & Love

Help Wanted

Nursery Help!

We are refreshing our substitute caregiver list for the Nursery on Sunday mornings. Please let [email protected] know if you are interested and we will contact you about making sure we have your current background check on file. Thanks for loving our children and families!

Please pass these job postings along to people you think might be interested! Thanks from our Search Team: Michelle and Kacey Brueggemann; Kevin Cameron; Deb Carter; Sally Dischinger; Karen Nolte; Ingrid and Caitlin Scharf; Phil and Henry Waite.

Director of Youth Ministry

A great opportunity for a part-time 8 hours/week Director of Youth Ministry. We are a faithful people with a warm heart and generous spirit. We are a progressive and intentionally inclusive congregation in a great facility in a prime location. We want to offer our youth a meaningful and memorable church experience that deepens their faith and helps them to live a life of service. Contact us if you would like to know more - [email protected]

Parkway United Church of Christ ~ 2841 N Ballas Road; St Louis, MO 63131;

parkwayucc.org; 314-872-9330.

Director of Christian Education

A great opportunity for a part-time 12 hours/week Director of Christian Education. We are a faithful people with a warm heart and generous spirit. We are a progressive and intentionally inclusive congregation in a great facility in a prime location. We want to become even more vital and relevant to children and families. Contact us if you would like to know more - [email protected].

Parkway United Church of Christ ~ 2841 N Ballas Road; St Louis, MO 63131;

parkwayucc.org; 314-872-9330.

Parkway UCC Annual Congregational Meeting 

Parkway UCC's The Annual Congregation Meeting will be Sunday, June 11, 2023 after the regular Sunday Service. The meeting will be available on Zoom. One the key items on the agenda is the Council is requesting approval of the revised Articles & By-laws. A printed copy is available however also included via electronically.

There will be a pot-luck dinner after the meeting - more details in a separate announcement.

• 5-13-2023-Articles-Bylaws-and-Governance-Procedures-approved-by-council-on-April-24-20231.pdf
• 08-Constitution_and_Bylaws-annotated1.pdf

5/31—Parkway Adventurers Tour White Haven

Wed, May 31 | 9:30am carpool from church

Join the Parkway Adventures on a visit to the beautiful estate White Haven, National Historic Site, General Ulysses S. Grant's St. Louis home on Wednesday, May 31. Meet at PUCC's parking lot at 9:30 am for carpooling or 10 am at White Haven, 7400 Grant Road (opposite Grant's Farm). Grant was a Civil War General credited with saving the Union, and the 18th President of the United States. We'll explore the grounds and museum from 10-11, and take a reserved tour of the White Haven estate at 11. Admission and tour are free. After White Haven, you are invited to join us for lunch at Fitz's SoCo, 5244 S. Lindbergh.

White Haven was built between 1812 and 1816, one of the oldest homes in St. Louis County today. It was built by the Dent family, and Julia Dent eventually became Grant's wife. The Grants lived at White Haven before and after the Civil War, and visited the estate during Grant's presidency. For the tour, the house has an accessible entrance and all but one room on the main floor is completely accessible. The winter kitchen in the basement is accessible only by stairs but there is photo information available. https://www.nps.gov/ulsg/index.htm Please RSVP to Donna Fauss, [email protected] or text/call (314)650-2607 so that we can have a head count for the guided tour. The more the merrier.

All the acts of kindness, justice and equity near and far.

Spring beauty.

Memorial Day approaching... remembering and offering gratitude.

Kelly Shelton and Will Lawson married on May 16 in Florida

(kids Killian & Kennedy and parents Karla & Peter Shelton are thrilled!)

Students, grads, teachers and families as school year ends now/soon.

Coree Mix - settling into new home by DePaul Hospital... 11777 Minot Drive, Bridgeton 63044; 314-412-0150. They’d love a call and/or visit!

Val & Doug Detjen - her heart surgery went well...complicated healing; in & out of ICU.

Peter LaSalle and Sally Dodge - as they continue to maneuver his health concerns.

Dawn Jones-Goldstein - healing after recent tonsil surgery.

Norma Shafermeyer - healing after recent pacemaker surgery (Ferrell).

The ongoing power struggles and violence in Sudan.

The continuing war in Ukraine.

Ponder

This pentecostal fire surely refers to the passion of resolve needed for the new life to which Christ calls us. DeChardin describes that one supreme motivational force which can accomplish such transformation: “Love is the most universal, the most tremendous, and the most mystical of cosmic forces. It is like the blood of spiritual evolution.” This: the reason we define our God as love.

So, Pentecost calls us to love purely and fully, and become missionaries of love.

Could this be the true goal of all human life, and why the poet writes, “I live to love which is why I love to live.”

Now, we can understand why we can speak in different tongues and be understood, for everyone understands the language of love. And our love embraces all peoples. Our acceptance of pentecostal love destroys all discrimination and hurtful tribalism of every sort. It even summons us to forgive those who have wounded us. Pentecost calls us to reach out to all whom we touch, not in competition, economic or political gain but in genuine embrace. This is the true Christian mission: not to draw people to a church but to give myself in service to my beloved.

A magnificent expanding of this pentecostal love to all the created (human, terrestrial, and cosmic) leads us to live the admonition of Gary Zukav: “Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.”

STL Day of Awareness and Healing

Honor Victims of Gun Violence

Jesus Has Left the Building Planning Team

Community Outreach on July 30