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Soup and Prayer on Wed. Feb. 8
Soup and Prayer on Wednesday:
Please make plans to come to the meal and large
group prayer meeting on Wednesday, February 8.
We’ll have potluck soup and bread at 6:30, and large
group prayer meeting at 7:15. If each prayer group
or small group assigns someone to bring soup and
someone to bring bread and someone to bring
cookies, we will have enough. Hope to see you
there. Hosts are those with last names starting with
A, B, or C, up to Cline.
-Deb Eisenbraun
Art opening Feb. 12
Upcoming ART Exhibition in the gallery:
artist: teacher
(making art and teaching art)
Featuring artists John Hendrix, Christine
Sarra, and John Sarra
February 12 – April 15, 2012
Opening reception with light refreshments
Sunday, February 12, 1-3pm following worship
Gallery Art Talk schedule is forthcoming
Kingsbury Gallery (just east of the office space)
Grace and Peace Fellowship
5574 Delmar
St. Louis MO 63112
general gallery hours:
Sundays from 12 – 1 pm, and by appointment
gpkingsbury@gmail.com
Poetry reading by shelter guests Feb. 19
Poetry Reading
The Poets from the Grace and Peace Women's Winter
Shelter will share their work with us and their
families and friends on Sunday Feb. 19th following
worship in the gallery. These women have been
"workshopping" with our poet/educators for several
weeks and will be thrilled (and a bit nervous!) to share their heartfelt words with you. There will be a light reception... the reading begins at 1:00 pm.
Please join us in the gallery.
-Nancy Hughes
Prayer time Jan. 31 for people to join the Kingdom
It's Prayer Time, Church!! PLEASE NOTE NEW
DATE!!
Dear Friends, Lord willing, on January 31st at 7 p.m.
in the church library, we will have a time of prayer
for those people whom we would love to be with us
in the kingdom of our God. Please do plan to come
out and pray for Christ to be treasured in hearts
where He is not yet enjoyed.
Submitted by: Aaron Turner
Yearly review and meal Jan. 29
Congregational Meeting on Sunday, January 29
We will meet together as a community on Sunday, January 29 right after worship for our Yearly Review. The purpose of the meeting is to talk about our life together as followers of Jesus as this is summarized in the “Grace & Peace Yearly Review” that the session will make available on Sunday, January 22. Ruling Elder John Hendrix will moderate, making only a brief presentation and then allow for questions, comments, concerns and new ideas. This is our third time around with this new format and we expect that it will again encourage good conversation about things that matter to us. You are free to raise questions or make comments about any aspect of G&P that you wish. We want to make it as easy as possible for anyone who wants to speak to do so.
Please do consider that the effectiveness of the meeting depends in large part on your taking the time to read the Yearly Review ahead of time. There is lots of Spirit led, redemptive sort of work described with in it!
Child care will be provided. Kurt Lutjens for the session
Deadline for Tucket Wed 7pm
IMPORTANT TUCKET NEWS
Deadline change
Beginning with the January 22nd
Tucket, the deadline for all articles will be Wednesdays at 7pm instead of
Thursdays at 4pm. This means the deadline for the January 22nd
Tucket will be Wednesday, January 18th instead of Thursday, January 19th.
Wednesdays at 7pm will be the new deadline for the Tucket every week.
20th Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Sunday Jan. 13 at 3pm
20th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration -
"Living the Message"
Sunday, January 15th, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Grace & Peace Fellowship, 5574 Delmar Blvd.
The SDCC Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Committee invites the community to celebrate
20 years of honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
This year's celebration will feature keynote speaker, Bob Hansman--a local artist, community activist, and Washington University Associate Professor--as well as several local church choirs and youth performances. There will also be a special recognition to honor Jim McCleod and Cal Stuart's service to the community. For more information contact the SDCC office at 314-862-5122 .
Celebrate Recovery Ending
It is with sadness that our Celebrate Recovery team announces we will no longer have regular CR meetings on Sunday nights. We came to this decision because, at the present time and for various reasons, we do not have a sufficient number of leaders to continue.
December 11th will be our last regular meeting.
Our sadness, however, is mixed with anticipation because some of us will be joining with the current effort of the First Evangelical Free Church of St Louis County and The Rock Church of St Louis to combine CR meetings and create a larger St Louis area-wide meeting. Please join us at First E. Free on Fridays (1375 Carmen Road, 63021)
Caroling and Kids! Dec. 17
Caroling and Kids!
To sing Christmas songs or hymns, esp. in a group:
"we caroled from door to door" (Google def.). Early
on the evening (maybe 6pm?) of Saturday December
17th families are welcome to come out and carol in
the Skinker-Debaliviere neighborhood. We will meet
and carol together for some time and the evening
will end with hot chocolate and homemade cookies
in a warm home! Details are still being worked out,
but if you live in the S-D neighborhood and would
like us to stop at your house (and plan on being
home!) or if you can pair us up with carol-friendly
neighbors (need not be G&P-ers) who will be home
for sure, please do let me know. Or, let me know if
you would like to BE a caroler! This is the brainchild
of several Grace and Peacers, though John Cline will
be organizing the event--contact him at
johngcline@gmail.com for tips, leads, a desire to
help and/or to RSVP.
School of Discipleship winter classes
What the Lord Requireth: Testimonies of Justice
and Mercy by Grace and Peace:
This School of Discipleship class will primarily be
testimony based in format. We will have 7 different
Grace and Peace-er's share from their wealth of
wisdom and years in mercy ministry. Presentations
will include a Q&A time. Classes will also define the
ministry of deed and briefly look at various models
and approaches to mercy ministry. The goal of the
class is to equip attendees for confidence in mercy
ministry and loving others in deed. The whole class
will also work towards planning, conducting and
evaluating a short term ministry of mercy in the
neighborhood. It's gonna be sweet.
-john cline
IMAGE & MEANING: A LOOK AT CULTURE
In our culture, we are bombarded with images and
messages that we often lack the wherewithal or even
perceive the need to fully understand. These images
and messages are sometimes arbitrary (TVs blaring
talk shows in waiting rooms, ubiquitous
advertisements on strangers clothing) and
sometimes targeted specifically at us (internet
banner ads, television commercials), but all need to
be comprehended to the best of our ability;
comprehended in order to avoid cultural
assimilation. As Christians, we are called to be in
the world but not of the world, but we are also
shown time and again how Christ, the apostle Paul
and others often utilized the cultural tropes of the
time to better communicate greater truths. What do
these ideas and methods mean to us now, and how
can we apply them? Today, Christians struggle to
maintain any cultural foothold, as the century-plus
history of the church's chronic recoiling from secular
culture has caught up with us in a negative way. In
this semester-long class, Sylwinn and Jim Tudor will
lead the attendees in a discussion-based
exploration of how contemporary imagery
(advertising, TV, film, music videos, print, the web)
can be generated for manipulation as well as
aesthetic beauty. Hopefully you will come away with
a greater confidence in terms of how to decipher the
unrelenting outside visual forces. It is our hope to,
for the most part, keep things to a practical level, as
it is our belief that media literacy is of fundamental
importance in all contemporary education, and
needs to be taken considerably more seriously at all
levels of learning. If you live in today's world, this
class is for you!
-Jim Tudor
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