SEPTEMBER 2021 | NAN KEMP & MELISSA SHIELDS, CO-EDITORS LOGOS Fall Kickoff PW to Begin Study WE’D LOVE LOGOS Will Be Kicking Off on September 8 St
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St. Luke Presbyterian Church VOLUME 57, NO. 9 | SEPTEMBER 2021 | NAN KEMP & MELISSA SHIELDS, CO-EDITORS LOGOS Fall Kickoff PW to Begin Study WE’D LOVE LOGOS will be kicking off on September 8 St. Luke Women’s first meeting of TO at 5:30 p.m. The scheduled activities will 2021-22 will be at 9:30 a.m., center around a provided meal, Bible study, September 8 in the fellowship hall. Connect worship skills, and crafts/recreation. Sallie Amason will provide WITH YOU! LOGOS is for all St. Luke kids from K-12 refreshments. The study this year is and for any friends of St. Luke as well. What My Grandmothers Taught Me: 3001 Bell Street LOGOS will continue to take place from Learning from the Women in Amarillo, TX 79106-5037 5:30-7:30 p.m. monthly on the first Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus. Wednesday every month through this fall. The first lesson is “Family Trees.” 806.355.6253 Office The registration fee is $20 per family for the Kendra Jones will begin the study 806.355.0629 Fax fall semester, and St. Luke has scholarship with reminiscences of her own funds that can cover that if needed. grandmothers and will invite [email protected] Safety is a top priority for LOGOS, and it members to share theirs at upcoming [email protected] is expected that all participants who are able meetings (in lieu of devotionals). Visit our website: will wear masks indoors unless actively If you missed the deadline to order a www.stlukeamarillo.com eating or drinking. book through the church office, you If you would like more information, please can still get a copy by ordering Find us on Facebook: contact Wesley Wingo at or directly from Presbyterian Women. @stlukeamarillo . We hope to see Here is the link: you September 8! Wesley Wingo www.presbyterianwomen.org/. Watch us on YouTube: St. Luke Presbyterian Church Mark Study Begins September 22 Find Pastor Kati’s blog: www.revkaticollins.com Who was Mark? What is different about his gospel from the other three? Why is it believed Mark is the earliest written gospel of the four canonical gospels? How Pastor Kati’s podcast: does his message speak to us today? The Sycamore Tree If any of these questions intrigue you, please join in a four-week adult Bible study Download the Sharefaith App on the Gospel of Mark. Classes will meet on Wednesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. on the App Store starting September 22 and continuing through October 20, skipping October 6. Handouts from The Thoughtful Christian will be available for each class session. Get St. Luke Pres., Amarillo TX Please contact Kary Wingo ( ) if you’d like to participate, on Google Play and she will email the weekly handouts to you. 1 Spiritual Leadership Mission Activities Retreat Day On Saturday, August 21, your Mission Committee sponsored a Laundry Love event at the 10th St. Laundry at 1401 SW 10th We all need a bit of rest and some new tools to lead in Street from 8:00 until 10:00 a.m. It was a rousing success, our workplace and home. St Luke’s Session invites demonstrating an unmet need in our community at large. We you to join them for a spiritual retreat to care for our plan to host more such events in the future, so watch for notices souls so that we can care for others. Registration and invitations to come. If you would like to contribute begins September 1. financially to these efforts, please designate your donations, WILDCAT BLUFF NATURE CENTER "Laundry Love." October 1, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Although the Committee tries to space out the various drives Registration: $10 (includes lunch and supplies) we sponsor, with the start of the school year, several of the organizations we support are experiencing special needs. We Children’s Church to have decided to extend the collection of used men's pants and shoes for the Guyon Saunders Resource Center in order to give Begin September 12 you more time to clean out your closets and dresser drawers. At the same time, we are asking for ready-to-eat or easily Starting this fall, a Children’s Church will take place prepared food for the Amarillo College Food Pantry, along with during our Sunday morning worship service. Children personal hygiene products. These items help low-income from fifth grade and lower are welcome to leave the students continue their educations when they are food-deprived sanctuary after the choir’s anthem (if they have not left or when personal maintenance necessary for self-esteem after the children’s sermon) and attend a class in the becomes difficult. Bright Education Center, learning about songs, crafts, and Bible stories following the lectionary. There will In September and October, we will be asking for donations of be Sundays when the kids will learn more about school supplies for Mesa Verde Elementary School and for gifts Communion and other service-related activities. The of underwear for the residents of the Amarillo Children's class will start on September 12 when the Adult Home. The items needed for the ACH underwear drive are Sunday School will also begin. Camille Hoy and women's socks and underwear (all sizes XS to XXL) and men's Helen Thorsheim will be teaching these classes. If underwear and socks SM, MED, and LG. Ann Hefner you have any questions, please contact Ashley Denham. Church Telephone Directory An electronic copy of the updated church telephone directory Your Tithes & Offerings will be emailed next week. One printed directory per family will be available to be picked up from the tower foyer. Matter... to the “Food Insecure” High Plains Food Bank is a program selected by the Mission Committee to receive a monthly, budgeted donation. In 2021, we aim to give a total of $1,980 to this charity. The food bank’s website describes its mission: We exist to alleviate hunger in The Panhandle. We do this in many different ways. First, we provide food, a basic need. We delivered 8.25 million pounds of food in 2018 to the 29 counties we serve, If your birthday is not listed in the top of the Texas Panhandle. According to 2014 data or if there is an error, from our most recent hunger study, we served an estimated please call the church office. 92,000 people, in 8,000 different families, through our partner agencies. This is a tangible way you can see what we 1 P.J. 12 Jessica are doing at the Food Bank. It has been a long-standing 2 Keegan 12 Tim tradition since our inception to deliver shelf-stable and fresh 2 John 14 Mindy foods to the people that need them. We distribute the food 4 Grace 17 Cruse through our over 190 agencies that work hand in hand with 4 Nan 18 Lillie us to pinpoint need in their communities. We deliver this 8 Jude 19 Yvette basic need to people who need help getting back on their 9 Ross 19 Doug feet. 11 Jan 25 Alexa To learn more about High Plains Food Bank visit * Friend of St. Luke https://www.hpfb.org/. 2 redemption of the whole world. Whether it's the Wednesday night Mark study, the Silent Meditation Strokes of Grace services, or even Sunday morning worship, every A note from Pastor Kati time we gather and confess our struggles, we take an opportunity to hear our own stories from someone Truth Be Told else's point of view and from God's all seeing view. “See, the home of God is among mortals. The Three in One will dwell with them as their God; they will be God's peoples, Brown Bag and God personally will be with them; The Alpha and Omega New Member Class will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first August 29 after worship September 15 at 7:00 p.m. things have passed away.” —adapted for inclusive language from Revelation 21:3-4 Begin the process of becoming a new member and get to know St. Luke! We humans, we love stories. We tell them to ourselves and to RSVP to the office or Pastor Kati for a free Jimmy others over and over. The more we tell a story, the more John's sandwich or bring your own. Meet by the things get exaggerated and the more sure we become of the east door to decide on a meeting place. truth of our own perspective. For us to grow and heal, however, we must start by looking at the story in a new way. When we see the possibility for a new interpretation of the world in and around us, we open the door for transformation, transformation of our minds, our relationships, our souls. We can begin by putting our stories on paper, whether that’s with words or numbers or music or art, and then step back to really look at what we are telling ourselves. By looking back at this piece of information, we can challenge it, and we can step back and say, "What else is happening here? Is there a July 2O21 way to see this from a new perspective?" When we are able to see multiple perspectives, we can write a new ending. We can come to see ourselves as agents of our circumstances rather than hopeless and out of control.