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Chicken BBQ 2024

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For our final community dinner of the Fall, we will host a Chicken BBQ. The meal consist of a 1/2 chicken, a baked potato, applesauce, a roll, and butter. The cost will be 13 dollars. Tickets for the dinner should be ordered ahead of time. A limited number of meals will be available without pre-purchasing a ticket. The chicken dinners will be available for take out only from 11 AM to 3 PM. Pre-ordered chickens must be picked up before 2 PM or they may be resold. Contact us for more information or to purchase a ticket.

Chickens on racks from our 2022 chicken BBQ.
Chickens on racks from our 2022 chicken BBQ.

Roast Turkey Community Dinner-September 14, 2024

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Our first community dinner of the Fall will be on September 14. The meal will served from 4:30 PM-6 PM (or until sold out). The dinner will include roast turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, a vegetable, cranberry sauce, dessert, and a beverage (dine in only). You can dine in our take out. It is 13 dollars for adults and 5 dollars for children. An elevator is available at our accessible entrance. Contact us for more information.

roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and green beans on a plate
Roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and green beans on a plate from an earlier Turkey dinner.

The Call (Bible Study)

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This fall Pastor Andrew will lead a Bible Study on the Apostle Paul inspired by Adam Hamilton’s book The Call. We will study some key passages from the book of Acts about Paul as well as Paul’s own writings. In addition to studying the Bible, we will watch some videos that Adam Hamilton produced to give us new insight into the Apostle Paul.

The class is being offered in-person or on Zoom. All sessions will be on Monday nights at 7 PM. Whether you participated in our first Bible study on Romans or have never read the book of Romans in your life, you are invited to join us as we explore Paul’s words to the Romans together.

Schedule (scripture lessons are tentative)

  • September 9-Paul’s Call to Follow Jesus (Acts 21:27-22:4; Philippians 3: 1-6; Galatians 1: 11-24)
  • September 16-No Study
  • September 23-Paul’s Call to Go (Acts 13-14)
  • September 30-Paul’s Call to Suffer (Acts 16; Philippians 4: 2-9)
  • October 7-Paul’s Call to Love (Acts 18: 1-17; 1 Corinthians 13)
  • October 14-Paul’s Call to Give (Acts 18: 18-20: 36)
  • October 21-Paul’s Call to Be Faithful (Acts 21, 28; Philippians 1)
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior's The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Way to Damascus
José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior’s The Conversion of Saint Paul on the Way to Damascus

Contact the Church Office for Zoom Information or with Questions

The Gospel of Mark (Sunday School Class)

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Discover the Good News in the Bible’s earliest Gospel

Walk through the Bible’s earliest source for the life of Jesus with scholar Amy-Jill Levine as she examines John the Baptizer, the Little Apocalypse, the Transfiguration, and several of Jesus’s most notable stories and parables. The Good News of the gospel message comes alive in this book as readers see Jesus as divine and human, powerful and weak, approachable yet mysterious. The book features an in-depth study of select passages and illuminates the Gospel in its historical context and as a source for the other gospels.[1]

Join Pastor Andrew as his Sunday School class reads and discusses The Gospel of Mark: a beginners’ guide to the Good News. Participants should pick up a copy of Amy-Jill Levine’s The Gospel of Mark. If you would like the church to order a copy of the book for you, please contact the church office. The cost of the book is $14.00. If the cost of the book will be a problem, please talk to Pastor Andrew. If you would like to order through the church, please let us know by Sunday, August 25th.

Schedule

  • September 8-Introduction and Chapter One: The Good News Begins (Mark1-4)
  • September 15-No Study
  • September 22-Chapter Two: Restoring Purity and Wholeness (Mark 5-7)
  • September 29-Chapter Three: Sacrifice, Ransom, Prophet, Messiah (Mark 8-10)
  • October 6-Chapter Four: Fig Trees and Tenants (Mark 11-12)
  • October 13-Chapter Five: The Little Apocalypse (Mark 13)
  • October 20-Chapter Six: Judas Iscariot and the Naked Young Man (Mark 14-15)

Contact Church Office for Zoom Information or to order book

[1] From book’s promotional materials