February 29, 2024

Vicar Aaron's Message

Picture this: Jesus has just arrived in Jerusalem and speaks with the chief priests and elders. Gathered outside the temple, the temple authorities listen to Jesus and interpret his parables as veiled threats against them – they leave nervously, fearful of the message, whispering about how best to get rid of Jesus. Did they have room in their hearts to accept Jesus’ challenging parables? Do we?

Spacious God, You give us room to grow and change. Help us face challenges with courage as we prepare ourselves for Your abundant life and love. Amen.

How do we make sense of Jesus’ challenging parables?

• Loving God, You came in the person of Jesus not to be served, but to serve others. Help us set aside our desire for greatness, our anger toward others, self-indulgent appetites, and false judgments that we might love our neighbors as ourselves.
• Encourage those who lead and those who follow to work cooperatively with one another toward common goals, that all might have life and have it abundantly. Give us courage for difficult conversations that help us to see and patience with others who see things differently.  
• Enfold in Your loving arms all who are living with chronic or terminal illness, addiction, mental health challenges, or grief, especially those we carry in our hearts. Show us how best to love and support those in our families or communities who suffer as we move through the seasons of our lives; with new plans, more or less time, new abilities and new limits. Help us to see the many ways in which scripture has been used to marginalize those living with disabilities, that we might be intentional about welcoming and affirming every single child of God as they are.

Dear GLC Family,

After 5 rounds of chemo, surgery, 2 stem cell transplants and 12 sessions of radiation, LEIF IS CANCER FREE! He will do immunotherapy for 6 months and complete treatment this summer!

We could not have made it through these last 10 months without our GLC family! You have helped carry us through the most challenging and frightening times. Your prayers, texts, emails, cards, meals, gifts and beautiful chalk artwork meant the world to us and we will be forever grateful!

We look forward to seeing you all soon!

Much Love,

The Abrahamson Family

From now until Holy Week we will be running a Soup Bracket! We have 16 soups competing, with four facing off every week. This week we have...

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Our next food packing opportunity is at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) from 9AM to 11:30AM on Wednesday, March 20. If you would like to volunteer, RSVP to Martha Sobie by Sunday, March 10.

Please join us as you are able March 10th in Fellowship Hall. We will be preparing a Mexican Casserole and lunch items for the Lazarus House guests. If you are unable to join but would like to support the ministry, you can sign up to bring ingredients HERE. Please drop off all ingredients by Friday, March 8.

Sturdy Shelter Brewing in Batavia - Thursday, February 29, 6:30-8:30

Join Vicar Aaron, Pastor Trudy, and folks from Geneva United Methodist, Fox Valley Presbyterian, Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva to engage in spirited conversation. This month’s topic…temptation, testing and the devil. Click HERE to RSVP.

PDO Registration opens to GLC members and currently enrolled families on Monday, March 11 @ 9AM. Click HERE for more information.

Literacy Volunteers Fox Valley will host a free tutor training workshop from 6:30PM to 9:00PM on March 11, 13, 18, and 20 at the St. Charles Public Library. For more information visit www.lvfv.org. You can also watch our Mission Impact video to hear stories about how LVFV has affected the lives of people in our community.

Click HERE for Faces of Faith photos!

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