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"It is tragic when we feel we must hide our true selves, muzzle our ministry, or closet our gifts and talents in order to serve a church or a ministry setting."
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Our Presbytery - Our Work
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Weekly Prayer Basket
- Please pray ... Claire Calvin, 6 years old and was diagnosed with DIPG, with additional mass on her spine.
- Please pray for... Paul Cash who is in very poor health and his wife, Helen, of Park Hills Presbyterian
- Please pray...for our Missions in Nicaragua and Peru
- Please pray for... for churches as they plan to re-open to regular services, and for continuing to support of those home bound
- Please pray for... for an end to the rising infection rates, and for a vaccine to become available.
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Support Ministry
Help Wanted
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2020-2021 Planning Calendars
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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
lporter@glpby.org or 314-772-2395.
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Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy
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Social Witness - COVID19 Crisis
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Attention All Presbyterian Members and Friends
Our Presbytery, our states, our country, and our world are facing the biggest threat since World War II. We need to take this as seriously as we do a war.
American Deaths:
- 58,000 men and women died or are missing from the Vietnam War
- 36,914 died from the Korean War
- 407,316 died in World War II
- 2,784,452 confirmed cases and 129,393 deaths from Covid-19 as of July 4 in the United States.
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Department of Homeland Security
Center for Faith and Opportunity Initiatives
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NOTE: In light of the Covid-19 Pandemic, meetings will be restricted to Zoom or conference call. If you are unsure how to participate, please contact your team moderator, or call the office 314-772-2395, and select Leigh Porter, Office Manager.
Presbytery Upcoming Virtual Meetings
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Becoming Matthew 25
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How Do We Engage Socially Distancing and still participate in Mission & Ministry?
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Black Lives Matter Vigil on Lockwood
Webster Groves Presbyterian Church has been invited to join Peace UCC in their Friday Night Vigils from 6:00-6:30pm. We would spend a half hour standing in solidarity with our Black siblings recognizing that all lives will not matter until Black Lives Matter. Peace has invited churches up and down Lockwood to participate so we can have a bigger presence in the community. Please join us outside the WGPC red doors from 6:00-6:30 pm every Friday. Bring signs. Wear masks. We will be social distancing.
If you are interested in joining, directions can be
found here.
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Send us your stories of how your congregation is maintaining congregational vitality during this pandemic. Send stories to Office Manager, Leigh Porter at
lporter@glpby.org
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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:
calvarypcpastor@gmail.com
- 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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Racial Justice Summer Movie Series
Wednesdays at 7 p.m.
AMEN St. Louis invites high school and college students to join us for a racial justice summer movie series featuring the films
Just Mercy,
The Hate U Give,
Moonlight, and
Whose Streets?. Watch the films and join AMEN staff for facilitated discussions via Zoom on Wednesdays at 7pm CST.
Zoom In -
Click Here If you are calling in, please call
312-626-6799
and enter the meeting number 849 4257 5991, followed by the # sign. If prompted, the password is: 698732.
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The Hate U Give covers topics including the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality, and Black identity by following high schooler Starr Carter.
Join us!
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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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NWCC Dreaming & Discerning
Tues., Aug. 18 at 7 p.m.
The Holy Spirit may also be firing the imagination of some of you around Giddings-Lovejoy Presbytery to see visions and dream dreams of inviting disciples into Jesus’ loving mission and ministry through launching a completely new worshiping community. As you look around your corner of God’s creation, the Holy Spirit may be breaking your heart for hurting people you are being called to creatively serve through launching something new. The Giddings-Lovejoy New Worshiping Communities Commission would love to partner with you in discerning and supporting your visions and dreams for launching a new worshiping community.
Learn more here.
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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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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.
Learn more here
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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
thirzasayers@gmail.com
or 404.313.4549. Learn more about Light for the Darkness by
clicking here.
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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
jaberger@pmma.org
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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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Tips for Caring for God's Good Creation:
Adjust your thermostat
Adjust your thermostat at least one degree to save on either cooling or heating, depending on the season. It's one way to reduce your environmental impact year-round.
"TIPS" is brought to you by the Earth Care Team of presbytery composed of members from the eight certified Earth Care Congregations in the presbytery plus Mound Ridge Camp and Conference Center. To learn how your congregation can be one please contact:
carletonstock@aol.com
or (314) 941-9378.
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Nicaragua Partnership Continues!
Although we are not able to make our annual visit to our partner community of Plan Grande #2 in July, some of us felt that we wanted to “show up” anyway! So a few of us made short videos – in SPANISH! – to share our greetings, news of from our homes and churches, and assurance of our continued love and prayers.
Please
click here
to read more and watch the video.
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Current Support Ministry Position Openings
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Coordinator, Congregational Ministries and
Member Care - Ladue Chapel
Organist/Pianist - First Presbyterian, Jackson, MO
Interim Pastor - John Calvin Presbyterian
Called Pastor - Faith DesPeres Presbyterian
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Keep Connected
We love to hear about the work of the Presbytery of Giddings-Lovejoy Congregations. Have an event, fundraiser, or concert and want to get the word out? Simply email that information in by
6 p.m. on Monday
of the week you want your event published. Help keep us connected by simply emailing your information to
jmcmillen@glpby.org
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