Calvary Presbyterian Final Worship Sunday
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Calvary Presbyterian Church
Final Worship Service To Be Held Through Zoom
Sunday, July 12 at 10:30 a.m.
Please email Rev. Emma Holley at
[email protected]
- if you would like to be added to the Zoom invitations of the final worship service. We hope you will join us!
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Presbytery Upcoming Virtual Meetings
Mon., July 13
Tues., July 14
Thurs., July 16
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Keep Connected
Presbytery COVID19 Response/Updates
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2020-2021 School Year Plan from MO/IL
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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)
joint news release found here.
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Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) have provided this joint plan/ recommendations for transitioning to in-person instruction. The plan can be
found here.
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Our web page resource.
What will you find there?
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Social Witness Team Voting Alert
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Social Witness Policy Action Team
Missouri August 4, 2020 Election
VOTING ALERT
If you're fearful about contacting COVID-19 at the polls, please contact your Board of Election Commission to request an Absentee Ballot or Mail-in-Ballot. The request must be received no later than July 22!
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Although Illinois' next election takes place November Tuesday, November 3, applications are now being taken for mail in ballots. The deadline for requesting a Mail In Ballot is October 29.
Click here for details.
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Medicaid Expansion On the Ballot
Many Missouri families are slipping through the cracks in our healthcare system — forced to choose between paying for life-saving care and putting food on the table or making a mortgage payment to keep their home. These families earn too much to qualify for Medicaid and not enough to be able to afford coverage on the health insurance exchange.
Medicaid expansion closes that coverage gap and ensures that hardworking Missourians will have access to affordable healthcare. It helps people nearing retirement who have lost their insurance, those with chronic medical conditions, and all Missourians who earn less than 138 percent of the federal poverty level (that’s less than $18,000 for an individual or $30,000 for a family of three). Medicaid expansion would provide healthcare to more than 230,000 Missourians - including more than 50,000 parents and 18,000 near retirees.
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Dangerous Heat Wave Next Week
A major heat wave is beginning to look quite possible next week. Confidence is increasing that a prolonged period of dangerous heat will occur from at least Tuesday through Thursday, potentially lasting through next weekend. Unlike the recent heat, the magnitude and extent of this event looks to be much greater. Current thinking is that highs during this period will be well into the 90s, and approach 100 degrees in the St. Louis metro region on Wednesday and Thursday, with peak heat index values of 100 to 110 degrees. The worst conditions will be from late morning through the afternoon and into the first half of the evening. However nights will remain quite warm, and urban areas like downtown St. Louis may struggle to fall under 80 degrees.
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Ruling elders rule — and amen to that!’
Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri, Co-Moderator of the 223rd General Assembly, shares some of what she’s learned about shared ministry
After criss-crossing the nation and travelling the globe while serving the past two years as Co-Moderator of the 223rd General Assembly (2018), Vilmarie Cintrón-Olivieri learned through the many fellow ruling elders she met more about the genius of the shared ministry practiced in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) — namely, there’s plenty of work for clergy and lay leaders working together to accomplish.
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2020-2021 Planning Calendars
The 2020-2021 Planning Calendars will be $9.75 each. We can mail small orders for the cost of shipping. Orders over 5 will need to be picked up. PC(USA) expects them to be delivered mid to late August.
Email or call Leigh Porter to reserve your copy today, by reaching out to
[email protected]
or 314-772-2395.
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Devotionals Welcomed
Pastors and friends,
Would you like to share a 3-5” YouTube devotional with a community of senior adults? Residents at Aberdeen Heights Sr Living would enjoy hearing different faces and voices for a brief morning devotional on our CCTV. Listeners would be residents and staff, mostly mainline Christian, with some Jewish and Muslim members of the community as well. If interested, please contact Chaplain Julie A Berger at
[email protected]
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r send me your YouTube link(s). Short and sweet, thoughtful and sensitive to all faith traditions is the idea.
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New Worshiping Communities
Dreaming and Discerning
Tues., Aug. 18 at 7:00 p.m.
Although many of our buildings may be closed for now, our churches are creatively open, continuing and even expanding the reach of their mission and ministry, with God’s Spirit inspiring many of us to see visions and dream dreams in ways we might not have imagined a few short months ago.
Learn more here.
Please RSVP your interest to Leigh Porter at
[email protected]
. A Zoom link will be sent to you before the meeting in August.
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Social Action
The Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy has a new tab on the home page of their
website
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dedicated to Social Action. If you have questions on how you can engage in the work of combating racial inequality and injustice, please visit the resources under the Social Action tab.
If you have questions or suggestions of additional resources, please email:
[email protected]
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Kids Bored? Consider Virtual Camp
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Summer Camp 2020
Campers go to
https://moundridge.org/virtual-camp/
to register for this free program. We then send packages of supplies to the campers and they follow along online! Space is limited so please register asap!
Camp runs June 15- July 17th and the website is open until August 1st.
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Self-Care and Mental Health
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Light for the Darkness
Meeting Day/Time Change
Join us Mondays at 7 p.m.
Feeling anxious or depressed, or know someone who is? Light for the Darkness has started a virtual group for anyone struggling with mental health to connect with others who understand and explore where God may be in the midst, Mondays at 7 pm.
Please connect with Thirza Sayers, who is intimately aware of these struggles, if you have any questions at
[email protected]
or 404.313.4549. Learn more about Light for the Darkness by
clicking here.
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Spiritual Practices
The spiritual practice for July is discernment. Discernment is about more than understanding or decision-making. It is about the holy process of listening for God in a way that seeks to understand God's will and align one's self with it.
Practicing discernment requires a yoking with Christ ... a walking alongside in order to learn from him.
This week, practice reading scripture for understanding instead of affirmation of your previous beliefs, and then applying this new understanding to your actions.
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Let's Talk about Self-Care
These days, it is more and more clear there are those who know the practices of self-care and those who don't. In this short video, Synod Executive Landon Whitsitt offers a brief introduction to caring for our bodies, minds, and spirits.
Click here
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FREE 24 Hour Counseling
Pastors and other Board of Pension members, Cigna is offering a separate 24-hour toll-free help line, to support resiliency during this time of high stress and anxiety, and can be reached by calling 866-912-1687 to connect with qualified clinicians, including licensed social workers, professional counselors, and psychologists, who can provide support and guidance.
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Sacred Earth: Revealing the Divine
Through Nature Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sunday, July 12 1:30-3:30pm
Come appreciate and share your thoughts on Gerard Manley Hopkins evoking Earth as sacred. Allow Noeli Lytton, an eager facilitator of soulful poetry, to lead you through a gentle reading and discussion. Sessions will be hosted live online via Zoom. (You may set up a free Zoom account on Zoom.us) A stable internet connection is needed. For more information:
www.mercycenterstl.org
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Matthew 25 - In Difficult Times
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We want to hear your stories!
- How is your congregation remaining or becoming even more vibrant?
- How are you reaching out to your neighbors in creative ways?
- How have you participated in the Presbyterians Care Movement?
Send us your comments to
[email protected]
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r call 314-772-2395. We hope to hear from you soon!
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