Earth Day Every Day: How to Get Involved This Earth Day

Earth Day is Friday, April 22, and this year’s theme is Invest in Our Planet. Regardless of how you choose to invest, there’s never been a more important time to celebrate this holiday. As humans run short on time to curb climate change and prevent catastrophic calamity, it’s important for everyone to take serious, bold actions toward a sustainable future.

https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2022/

Fortunately, there are many ways to get involved, whether you join a local event, host something on your own, or simply celebrate at home.

Contact Polly Rutherford: pollyrutherford@gmail.com

Worship with Us this Sunday

April 24, 2022 | 10:00am In-person and Facebook Live… later YouTube

Join us in the sanctuary or virtually. It’s the Sunday after Easter. The celebration continues – Psalm 150! The disciples and others are still a bit perplexed – wondering if this is real and what they might do next because of it – just ask Thomas - John 20:19-31. 

May 3

1st & 3rd Tuesdays

1:45 Fellowship

2:00pm book discussion

via ZOOM

Please join TAD as we continue discussing Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City. 

Tuesday Evening Dialogue

April 26

2nd & 4th Tuesdays

6:00pm Potluck

7:00pm Book discussion

Heritage Room in person!

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

We are Easter people!

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

Pat & Janet Prendergast - his recent scan indicates he is cancer-free.

Family/friends of Conrad Damsgaard – grieving/giving thanks… Visitation 2pm; Memorial Svc 3pm and a meal - Sunday, April 24 - PUCC

https://missouri.funeral.com/2022/04/18/conrad-damsgaard-jr-st-louis-cremation/

Lori Connors - healing for broken right arm.

Jackie - special needs adult battling Parkinson's, cancer, and dementia

(sister/sister-in-law of Nick & Sue McMillon).

Joan Biest - in the midst of chemotherapy treatments.

Lynda Ruby - living with cancer (Lindner).

All impacted by Covid-19 - individuals, families, healthcare workers; If anyone needs help getting vax/booster or if anyone vaccinated would like to be on the Care Team, please reach out to kevin@parkwayucc.org

The war in Ukraine.

Recent violence across the US.

Ponder

It Isn’t His Death

~Todd Jenkins

It isn’t his death

that saves us.

He was killed

because his life

was already saving us;

executed

for the crime of redeeming

people deemed unworthy

for salvation.

Grace, you see,

is always too much

for those seduced

by a culture

of comparison,

competition,

and consumption.

His death is merely

the exclamation point

on divine love,

reminding us that,

even if we fear unconditional acceptance

to the point of attempting

to extinguish its crucible,

it will not be withdrawn.

It isn’t his death.

It is his life;

the life that gives us life,

over and over,

day after day.

Intertwine Interfaith Iftar Dinner 2022

Saturday, April 23 | 7:15-8:45pm | Congregation Shaare Emeth

As the Holy Month of Ramadan is upon us, Congregation Shaare Emeth, Parkway United Church of Christ and the Turkish American Society of Missouri invite you to attend our Intertwine Interfaith Iftar Dinner. We are so excited that this will be our very first large in-person gathering since the pandemic physically distanced us.

Iftar Dinners bring individuals from different religious and cultural communities together to learn about the significance of the month of Ramadan in Islam, engage in friendly table conversation, and break fast with an Iftar dinner. All faiths are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Iftar is the name for a community dinner held daily after sunset to mark the end of a day of fasting. Ramadan, the ninth month in the Muslim calendar, is a special time for the Muslim community. During the month of Ramadan, Muslims worldwide fast from dawn to sunset to achieve greater self-discipline, self-purification, and compassion for those less fortunate.

We hope you can join us at Shaare Emeth.

Please RSVP by April 17, 2022 using this link...

https://congregationshaareemeth.shulcloud.com/form/intertwine-interfaith-iftardinner

This is a free event but a $10.00 donation per person is appreciated to cover the cost of food.

Ramadan Mubarak!