2/19/23 A Startup that is Now a Viable, Growing, Money Making Business

Presented by by Paris Wallace February 19 | 11:15am – 12:15pm | Heritage Room & Zoom A startup is an enterprise undertaken by an entrepreneur to develop a new business with the intent to grow large beyond the founders. Someone once observed, “Startups are pressure cookers. Don’t let the casual dress and playful office environment fool you.…

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Circle of Concern Thanksgiving Boxes

During JLTB we packed 86 Thanksgiving boxes for Circle of Concern clients. By November 11, we need 64 more! Thanks to all who have contributed items thus far. If parishioners can donate a few more items, we can reach our goal! Our needed items include: carton of chicken broth, box of stuffing, box of mashed…

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Sharing our Blessings at Thanksgiving: Circle of Concern’s Thanksgiving Boxes

We have already started collecting the items for COC Thanksgiving boxes. We will organize and pack the boxes on October 30, 2022 during JLTB Sunday. The items needed include: can of pumpkin, jellied cranberry, canned fruit, chicken or vegetable broth (32oz), boxed stuffing mix, boxed mashed potatoes, turkey or chicken gravy (12-18 oz), cornbread muffin…

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9/18 – City on a Hill: A History of American Exceptionalism

Abram Van Engen has published widely, including his recent book, “City on the Hill, a History of American Exceptionalism.” The title of his book comes from Puritan John Winthrop’s lecture, “A Model of Christian Charity” delivered on March 21, 1630 in Southampton before his first group of Massachusetts Bay colonists embarked on the ship Arbella…

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Sustainability Seekers Environmental Inspiration July 2022

  I feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use. ~Mother Teresa   Of the 3 R’s, it seems we hear more about Reuse and Recycle, but what about the Reduce part?  It gets the short end of the stick sometimes because most of us are ingrained…

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7/17 Modern Perspectives of a Native American

July 17, 2022 | 11:15am – 12:15pm | Heritage Room & Zoom Presented by Simona Charles, MSW, BBM Simona Charles is a member of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Reservation, where she grew up. The reservation was created by President Rutherford Hayes late in the 19th Century and occupies parts of the states…

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IIWC welcomes family from Afghanistan

The Intertwine Interfaith Welcome Circle (IIWC) is excited to announce that the family we are sponsoring arrived on Feb. 14, 2022 – Valentine’s Day! After a week at an Airbnb (provided free!), we moved the family into a three-bedroom apartment. Finding suitable, affordable housing proved to , be very difficult, but our housing team came…

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Thanksgiving at Circle

Circle is gearing up for our big Thanksgiving Basket Program and we need your help. Just like last year, we are committing to supplying 150 boxes containing Thanksgiving food items. 4 other area churches are participating and these boxes will be distributed the weeks before Thanksgiving to all of our client families. Additionally, each family…

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Tuesday Afternoon Dialogue (TAD)

Please join us for Tuesday Afternoon Dialogue (TAD) beginning April 20th as we discuss the book Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference, by Keller and Inazu. The book is a collection of twelve true stories, divided into three sections. The two authors pulled the stories together from a group which met in…

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Parkway Speakers Series 3/28: The Evolving World of Anesthesiology – Dr. Bill Owens

Sundays | 11:15am The core element of anesthesiology comprises the use of various injected and inhaled medications to produce a loss of sensation in patients, making it possible to carry out procedures that would otherwise cause intolerable pain or be technically unfeasible. Safe anesthesia requires in-depth knowledge of various invasive and non-invasive organ support techniques…

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Letter to US Leaders

FEBRUARY 1, 2021 Dear President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Members of the 117th Congress, I am an African American woman and proud resident of the state of Georgia! By now, the first Jewish man, Jon Ossoff, and the first African American man, Ralph Warnock, elected from Georgia to the U.S. Senate have taken their…

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Covid Vaccine

Here is a short summary of my understanding of getting the Covid vaccine in Missouri: Right now people 65 and older and other groups in tier 1 are eligible to get the vaccine. A Missouri resident can go anywhere in the state to get their vaccine; there is no county requirement. You need to get…

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