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Before Sunday...
Friday, November 19 at 3pm on Zoom
Mining for Memories
A great opportunity to look back at your life and build relationships now. We share a word that sparks a memory… eg. radio, blanket, textbook, flowers, green stamps, tub.
Join with video:
Join on your phone: (312) 626-6799
Meeting ID: 880 1434 9375; Passcode: 098940
Words of Gratitude
Take some time today to share sincere thanks via letter, email, phone, text. You may echo thanks already given and/or reach out to someone you haven’t thanked in the past.
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Worship with us this Sunday! |
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November 21| 10:00AM
Worship In-Person in the Sanctuary or on Facebook Live… or later on YouTube
Our scriptures for today are Joel 2:21-27 (Celebrating what God gives us) and Matthew 6:25-33 (Jesus telling the people then and now not to worry because God takes care of us).
It’s Thanksgiving Sunday so we will receive our annual offering for Every Child’s Hope (everychildshope.org) founded by our UCC St Louis family here in 1858 as an orphanage for immigrant children who lost their parents in cholera outbreaks. Currently, more than 200 staff members across Missouri are dedicated to preventing child abuse, treating emotional trauma and mental health issues, providing aftercare and follow-up services and so much more.
Worship bulletin:
https://www.dropbox.com/t/SA0kkuatCBRE8to9
We will also receive 2022 pledges for our mission and ministry ...
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Reminder from The Stews
As we are raking up leaves and getting ready for winter, so are your “Stews” collecting pledges so that PUCC can prepare for 2022. If you have not already turned yours in, please do so. We will have baskets available on Sunday, or you can mail yours in. Need a new card? Just let Harold Cobb ( [email protected]) or Ellie Svenson ( [email protected]) know. Your serious consideration for making a generous gift is vital to the life of the church. - Your Stewardship Commission |
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This link lists bulletin posts, with the top one as the most recent. |
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Livestream worship on Sundays. Look under videos for previous livestreamed services. |
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All our worship service videos in one place! |
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All Mid~Week Meditations that have been recorded on YouTube. |
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Sunday School Live and via Zoom
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Sunday School for children through 5th grade:
Meeting ID: 383 733 977
Password: 819680
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Sunday School for Youth/Teens each week:
Meeting ID: 815 6130 3581
Password: 702228
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Speaker Series
Sunday Nov 21 | 11:15am | Heritage Room and on Zoom
CRT - Critical Race Theory
Our conversation partner is David Spener, Professor of Sociology at Trinity University in San Antonio and adjunct professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin. He teaches Critical Race Theory, a body of scholarship and an academic movement that seeks to critically examine the intersection of race and US law. Last week’s introductory and background session on CRT was pre-recorded and is still available if you haven’t experienced it yet - https://youtu.be/6BxKaG3ehds
Join us this Sunday for a live conversation in the Heritage Room.
Zoom if you aren’t able to be with us in person –
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Tuesday Afternoon Dialogue |
Some Tuesdays| 1:45 Fellowship | 2:00pm book discussion| via ZOOM
We welcome you to join the discussion of Matt Haig's The Midnight Library, a novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived. What would happen if you had the opportunity to go back and change all the decisions you made in your life? On December 7 we will discuss pages 102-200, and December 14 pages 201-288. Discussion starts at 2pm, but feel free to drop in at 1:45pm for fellowship.
Join by phone: 312 626 6799 | Meeting ID: 836 7061 7428 | Passcode: 480007
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Tuesday Evening Dialogue
2nd & 4th Tuesdays | 6:45pm Fellowship | 7:00pm book discussion| via ZOOM
Please join us for our second session discussing Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy by Anne Lamott. Ms. Lamott describes mercy as the permission you give others—and yourself—to forgive a debt, to absolve the unabsolvable, to let go of the judgment and pain that make life so difficult.
Meeting ID: 861 7230 0024; Passcode: BookClub
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NAMI is the
National Alliance on Mental Health
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Tuesday, November 23 at 6:15pm at Parkway Central High School
Talk 4 Tyler: You’re Not Alone… a way to honor Tyler Wessel and support NAMI
It’s High School Basketball season! Join us for the boys basketball season opener - Parkway Central v. Parkway South. Before the 7pm varsity game, we will remember Tyler Wessel and what he meant to the PC community. The sad reality is that Tyler took his own life after battling depression. Our memories of Tyler are vivid and the pain is still fresh. But what we want, what Tyler's parents Cindy and Ralf want, and what Tyler's close friends want... is for his legacy to live on in a way that benefits others.
The basketball players are selling t-shirts, wristbands, and raffle tickets. All proceeds will be donated to NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) in Tyler's memory.
Additionally, close friends of Tyler and Tyler's family have already worked to raise funds for a Tyler Wessel Memorial Scholarship. $6000 has been raised, and the plan is to award two $3000 scholarships to graduating PC seniors this year who embody Tyler's qualities of kindness and inclusiveness. This effort was spearheaded by 2020 grad Hunter King. What an awesome gift this will be to the PC community in Tyler's name!
Finally, we hope that these efforts can bring attention to the importance of mental health. We understand that this can be hard to talk about. This is all the more reason that we are compelled to do so. Often we do not know the battles that students, players, or colleagues are fighting beneath the surface. We are hoping to play a part in encouraging open conversations about mental health and equipping people with resources to help. (nami.org)
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All the acts of kindness, justice and equity near and far!
Thanksgiving around the corner.
Cindy Wessel - healing at home after recent Achilles surgery.
Conrad Damsgaard - healing after heart valve replacement at REACH Rehab #2227 at Mason Pointe.
Lana and Joe Biondo - healing from recent knee replacement.
Mona Herberg - healing from last week’s successful cancer surgery.
All impacted by Covid-19 - individuals, families, healthcare workers; is If anyone needs help getting vax/booster or if anyone vaccinated would like to be on the Care Team, please reach out to [email protected]
St Louis Assn UCC Covenant Partner
Week ending November 21 - Trinity UCC, St Louis; trinityuccstl.org
Week ending November 28 - Zion UCC, Florissant; zionuccstl.org
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I love art that sparks great conversation! Susan Dupor, De'VIA artist, does great pieces that really make you think. She is a deaf artist and often incorporates that life experience into her work – including the controversial ‘Family Dog’. Let’s go into her studio to get a closer look at her work. |
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Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
—Eckhart Tolle
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- "If you call a big turkey a gobbler, what do you call a small one?" "A goblet."
- "What do you call a running turkey?" "Fast food."
- "What's blue and covered in feathers?" "A turkey holding its breath."
- "What's the best song to play while cooking a turkey?" "All about that baste."
- "Why did the turkey cross the road?" "He wanted people to think he was a chicken."
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Special Olympics Bowling Tournament
Sat, Dec 4 | 10:30am–2:00pm | Cave Springs Lanes | 4055 Mexico Rd 63303
You will have a GREAT TIME getting to know some special people and cheering for them as they compete.
Lane Assistant is by far the BEST job at the Special Olympics Bowling Tournament! Lane assistants get to know the athletes bowling on their lane and will keep athletes in order and bowling at a good pace all while making sure everyone is having fun. Lane assistants will track scores at the end of each game. 15 Volunteers needed. Please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0d4ca4ac23ab9-special
Special Olympics:
From a backyard summer camp for people with intellectual disabilities to a global movement, Special Olympics has been changing lives and attitudes since 1968.
When people speak of the origin of Special Olympics, they look no further than the first Camp Shriver - founded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver in the early 1960s. They talk of one woman’s dream that started in her own backyard. They speak of her vision: how through sports, the lives of people with intellectual disabilities would be transformed and public perceptions would be changed forever.
Back in 1960, a woman from Bethesda, Maryland called up Eunice and told her that she was having trouble finding a summer camp for her child with intellectual disability. The child wouldn’t be accepted into a mainstream camp, and, at that time, the public education system couldn’t figure out what to do with special-needs children never mind supply them with summer activities. Then another woman told her almost the same thing.
“Enough,” said Eunice.
In Eunice’s world, “enough” has always meant “do something about it.”
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November 2021 Alzheimer's News
A new study suggests a popular herb could help prevent Alzheimer's Disease - Basil. The new study published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience reveals that fenchol, a naturally occurring compound found in basil, may have a protective effect against Alzheimer's Disease. Fenchol was found to increase FFAR2 signaling, thus reducing levels of amyloid-beta, a protein linked to the development of Alzheimer's Disease, lowering rates and frequency found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
You can learn more by going to www.alz.org/help-support/resources or the Alzheimer’s Helpline which is accessible 24/7 via 800-272-3900 and staffed by master’s level clinicians to assist with crisis situations, decision making, and disease information. You can find virtual dementia caregiver resources online at alz.org/covid19help. Tools and support are also available in Spanish. Want to learn more about the Alzheimer’s Association and what they do here in St. Louis? Visit alz.org and/or contact PUCC’s Faith Outreach Ambassador with the Alzheimer’s Association, Joyce Ruiz at [email protected]
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We appreciate your submissions of jokes, quotes, photos, videos, weekly opportunities, Mid~Week Meditation ideas, scriptures that are important to you, hymn/song suggestions, poetry, etc. We would love to hear from you [email protected] |
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