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Within this website news you will find an invitation to attend a rededication of St. Lawrence Place, a transitional housing ministry for families in Columbia.
You are well acquainted with St. Lawrence Place, for Kathwood’s involvement goes back many years. You’ve packed Thanksgiving boxes; you’ve pulled weeds and sorted furniture in the warehouse. Maybe some of you have ministered in ways that aren’t known by the masses. Probably so. We have several anonymous angels at Kathwood.
But those days are behind us, and ministry points us toward the future. We can’t rest on our past involvement any more than the Holy Spirit rests on Pentecost’s achievement. Truly, the Spirit is always moving, always living and breathing among us. So too must we be…always looking for opportunities to grow, earnestly involved in being and becoming the Kingdom of God.
So I think the rededication of St. Lawrence Place is a good idea. The Trinity Housing Corporation was born from a divine nudge and much has been done since, and there remains much to do. Evidently homelessness isn’t going away any time soon, so the need for a rededication to the ministry task is a sound one. It’s a good parallel to our lives as well. Many of us decided to follow Jesus a long time ago. And even though we worship together each and every week, how often are we asked to rededicate ourselves to the path we decided to walk long ago? Sometimes even the most ardent walker needs help staying on the path.
So join me, this Sunday, August 12 for a rededication of a local ministry called St. Lawrence Place that has served and will continue to serve God’s Kingdom well. If you go, given the Holy Spirit’s activity, you may find yourself rededicated as well.
Hope to see you there,
Rev. Kevin M. Roberts
August 22nd Pork Loin
August 29th Country Fried Steak
Thank You for making your reservations due by noon on Tuesday.
Wednesday night choir rehearsal has started back at 7:15 p.m. This is a great time to join the choir. Come join us!
The Women's Book Club will meet at the home of Shannon Lackey on August 28th at 6:30 p.m. Our book selection for this month is Christmas in Harmony by Philip Gulley.
Raid Your Pantry! The Benevolence Committee will be collecting canned food and dry goods from July 29—August 30 at the coat rack downstairs. This food will go to the Columbia Metro Food Pantry. On Sunday, July 29th we will distribute a grocery bag with a list of suggested items attached to all children’s Sunday School classes and all adults as they leave worship. Suggested items include: canned meat, vegetables and fruit, soup, dry goods like pasta, rice, instant potatoes, dry milk, sugar, crackers, & cookies. The food will be delivered on August 28th. Thanks for your generosity!
On Sunday, August 19th, we are happy to host Rob Nash, CBF Coordinator of Global Missions, as our guest speaker preacher for the morning. We have just contributed in Kathwood’s largest ever state missions offering, and there is a fresh wind of missions involvement blowing through our congregation. Please come and worship with us and hear how God is equipping and calling us towards missional involvement in our neighborhood and across the globe.
Come and Listen, Go and Do
We learned from Pastor Kevin’s sermons that Jesus taught two lessons in Luke 10. He asks us to come and listen at His feet as Mary did, and He directs us to go and do as He directed a lawyer earlier in the chapter. In the story of Mary and Martha we saw that Martha was the “doer.” As we have listened and been listening — some in Sunday School, some on Wednesday nights, some from the worship service, we have some great opportunities to be doers of the Word.
Will you be a worker to help complete painting projects at Hannah House or to clean, paint, plant or carpet at St. Lawrence Place in anticipation of their August 12th Celebration? We really need you! Please check out the sign up sheet with the details and sign up to help us.
The work days will include the next 3 Saturdays (August 4, 11 & 18) for Hannah House and 2 Saturdays (August 4 & 11), a Friday (August 10), and a couple of weekdays (Mon.-Wed., August 6-8) at St. Lawrence Place. Step out in faith and sign up. You need not be a painter, nor do you need to provide any equipment. We’ve got it all. Contact Pam Greenlaw to Sign up by phone 760-2539 or by email to pamiekins@hotmail.com .
UPDATE: 8-9-07 There is still time to help! Our mission work at The Hannah House and St. Lawrence Place continues. We are still in need of volunteers. If you can help at Hannah House on either of the next two Saturdays, 8/11 or 8/18, we could sure use your help. [8:30-12:00] Contact the church office or Pam Greenlaw for more information. You are invited to the rededication of St. Lawrence this Sunday, August 12th, at 4:00 p.m. The address is 2400 Waites Road. You can see first hand the results of the labor of your Kathwood friends.