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it’s a full house at Pentecost Lutheran for Gospelfest!

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UPCOMING EVENTS

maryBeth — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:35:04 +0000

MARDI GRAS

Tues., Feb. 16, 6:30-8:30 pm – Join us as we celebrate Mardi Gras at Pentecost with Devotions, Gumbo, Jambalaya, great N’Awlins-style music, make your own floats (out of shoe boxes) and masks and select a King/Queen of the Mardi Gras. You won’t want to miss it!!

ASH WEDNESDAY:

Wednesday, February 17th at 7:00 pm DW/St.S with our neighbors at St. Sebastian Catholic Church (55th & Washington Blvd.)

6:30 pm Service at Pentecost (52nd & Burleigh)

Fri., Feb. 19, 6-9:00 pm – View/discuss anti-racism film “Race in the Age of Obama” at DW. Bring your own beverage (non-alcoholic) and we provide the popcorn.

GOSPEL FEST:

Sun., Feb. 21, 3:00 pm - Join us for an uplifting, multicultural concert featuring choirs from the Parks Neighborhood Parish (DW & P), Cross Lutheran church, St. Sebastian Catholic Church and others, culminating with a Mass Choir performance under the direction of Dr. Abe Caceres. Fellowship and treats will follow. We will accept a free will offering to benefit the MLK Scholarship Fund and the ELCA Disaster Relief for Haiti.

MONSTER FUNDRAISER:

Sat., Feb. 27, 10 am-4 pm at DW. We expect to find ways for EVERYONE to participate in raising money for the Parks Neighborhood Parish (DW & P) thru this event. It’s a CHILI COOK-OFF (enter your favorite chili and/or be a judge), CRAFT FAIR, GALLERY NIGHT, SILENT AUCTION AND BAKE SALE – featuring Pastor Michelle’s fabulous cakes. Please consider doing whatever you can to make this event a MONSTER success. Bring a neighbor and friend.

GOD’s peace be with you all

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pastor Michelle reading the gospel reading at the joint service with Pentecost Lutheran church

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minister jess leading the children’s sermon :)

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through Christ, we can! :)

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thanks to the council for the wonderful breakfast.. now time for the annual meeting & worship!

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also.. just to show you the awesome food you missed… :) #breakfast #yummy

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How can we help Haiti?

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:42:34 +0000

It’s all over the news. We all feel badly when a tragedy like this hits. But how can we actually provide a helping hand when we can’t even wrap our minds around the devastation? Not everyone can catch the next flight to help out first hand, so the rest of us turn to our pocketbooks… and our prayers.

Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson and the ELCA office have released the following. Please read through and help if you can!

ELCA NEWS SERVICE
January 13, 2010
Presiding Bishop Details ELCA Response to Haiti Earthquake
10-013-JB

CHICAGO (ELCA) — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is responding to the earthquake in Haiti through the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), wrote the Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop, in a Jan. 13 letter to members. Hanson, who is also president of the LWF, noted that the ELCA has committed substantial funds to support relief efforts, and encouraged members to share information and provide financial gifts.

The Jan. 12 earthquake caused considerable structural damage around the capital city, Port-au-Prince, and may have killed “more than a hundred thousand people,” Hanson wrote, quoting Haitian officials. Relief agencies’ immediate concerns were for the safety of survivors, plus needs for water, sanitation and communication.
In a brief interview, Hanson told the ELCA News Service that “this is a time for the ELCA to come together as we have so often done in our history.” He said the church has the capacity to respond to human tragedy, and “members are called to bear witness to our faith by responding generously and working with partners” to provide relief.
The presiding bishop asked members to contribute financial gifts to the church’s relief efforts. Members can provide gifts online at ELCA.org/haitiearthquake or call 800-638-3522.
In his written message, Hanson noted that the ELCA already is responding through the LWF’s Haiti Program. “Given the devastation caused by this earthquake, the ELCA has committed an initial $250,000 from ELCA International Disaster Response for Haiti and has authorized an additional $500,000 as congregations respond both to the immediate needs and long-term rebuilding efforts,” he wrote.

Hanson reported that LWF staff in Haiti escaped injury. The LWF is a global communion of 140 member churches in 79 countries, representing over 68.9 million Christians.
“We also give thanks that we have trusted and effective partners on the ground in Haiti who already are at work helping earthquake survivors,” he wrote. “The ELCA is the largest regular supporter of the LWF’s program in Haiti, which helps communities escape the deep poverty in which so many Haitians live. Since staff is already in place, no precious time will be lost in shaping an effective response. The work of providing food and shelter and in helping people to rebuild their lives is under way.”
The ELCA is thankful for partners in the relief effort. Hanson wrote that the LWF staff in Haiti is coordinating the responses of Protestant and Orthodox churches throughout the world through Action by Churches Together (ACT). The ACT Alliance is a global alliance of churches and related agencies working together in disaster response and development. The ELCA is member of the alliance.

The ELCA churchwide organization is also coordinating with the efforts of the ELCA Florida-Bahamas Synod, which is working to provide disaster support “to and possibly through the emerging Lutheran church in Haiti,” he wrote.

Details of the ELCA’s response and resources for congregations are posted at ELCA.org/disaster on the ELCA Web site. He asked members to share information about “the urgent need in one of the United States’ closest neighbors and the effective means by which their church is responding.”

MOVIE NIGHT – “Heaven Falls”

maryBeth — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:03:43 +0000

The Parks Neighborhood Parish Anti-Racism team invites you to Movie Night at Divine Word.

Friday, January 15 from 6:00 -9:00 pm

This month’s movie is “Heaven’s Fall,” the 2006 true story of the arrest, conviction and subsequent Supreme Court retrial of the Scottsboro Boys, nine African American hoboes pulled from an Atlanta train in 1931 and accused of raping two white women. The case is described as a story of “epic injustice” that “ultimately changed the course of American jurisprudence.”

Please bring your own non-alcoholic beverage.

Popcorm will be provided.