You can sign up to walk in the St. Charles or St. Louis Pride Parade or to volunteer to work at one of the Pride booths by following the link below. The dates for the Pride events are:
· June 29 & 30 - PrideFest St. Louis, 11am - 7pm (Sat), 11am - 6pm (Sun), Soldier's Memorial Park
Based on true events, Kinky Boots tells the heartwarming story of two people with nothing in common — or so they think! Charlie is a factory owner struggling to save his family business. Lola is a fabulous entertainer with a wildly exciting idea.
Kinky Boots is the winner of every major Musical Award, including the Tony, the Grammy, and London's Olivier Award. Your ticket entitles you to a back stage tour and the group will have a reserved picnic table.
Cost: $25
Every summer we do a sermon series called "The Faith We Sing" and focus on the lesson of a different genre of music. This year is songs made famous by a movie. These online affirmations and reflections will invite you into a brief moment of focusing on your life, your spirit, and the wisdom we find from our culture.
We love this movie that embraces and embodies our MCC values for inclusion, community, and social action! It won a number of awards including 3 Academy Awards and the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture. Movies are shown on the hill so having blankets, chairs and food are welcomed! Food trucks will also be around if you would rather purchase from them!
Join the MCCGSL Choir for Pride Night at the Cardinals game versus the Astros on Friday, July 26. The Choir is selling $20 tickets in Big Mac land (Face Value is $58).Email Jerry Smith at jerry.smith@mccgsl.org to purchase tickets or with any questions.
At MCCGSL, we believe that everyone is a minister...that God uses us all equally. On the 17th, we will celebrate our lay leaders by having a lay-led worship service. No clergy will lead this service in any way. It is sure to be a time for us to celebrate and remember who we are!
Join the young adults in a great time of bowling at Concord Bowl! This will be a great time to connect with others and have fun too!
Cost: $3.50/game plus $3 shoe rental for bowling. Mini golf, darts and shuffleboard also available. Pay at Concord Bowl.
This has turned into a favorite summer event as the St. Louis Zoo becomes a grand wine and beer tasting experience along with good food and great music! This is a time to enjoy all that is going on around you with friends, new and old!! Put this on your calendar early! You won't be able to get this much fun, food, and drink for this low of a price anywhere else!
Cost: $15 (includes food)
Event Hosts: Bruce Neal and Christine White
Each year, we have a team participate in the Komen Walk (formerly the Komen Race for the Cure). You can sign up to walk with our team, help host our registration table on Sundays, or you can simply support the team with a donation. Let’s stand together in the continued work to fight to end breast cancer! Sign Ups are in Fellowship Hall on Sunday Mornings.
The Missouri Botanical Gardens hosts the Whitaker Music Festival where artists play each week in the amphitheater. Bring a picnic and enjoy the music of Old Souls Revival who has grown into a solid heartland rock band with subtle nods to roots, Americana, and blues influences. They live right here in St. Louis!
Come enjoy the summer air, great friends and awesome music!!!
Event Host: Jerry Smith
Being the leader of a ministry in our church is a very important role! Here at MCCGSL ministry leader positions are one-year commitments. This evening will be a time of appreciation and commitment review as we prepare for Pentecost Sunday and the start of the next year of ministry leadership! Every current ministry leader and anyone interested in ministry leadership should plan to attend this gathering! Dinner will be provided.
If you have been visiting for a while and want to learn more about our church, this class is for you! All are welcome and there is no requirement to become a member.
We will share with you about our congregation's values, the work we feel called to do in our community, and the ways we are invested in helping you grow in your spiritual life. All are welcome, and there is no requirement that you become a member upon completion of the class. So, feel free to join us and learn more about MCC! Lunch and breakfast are provided.
Membership Classes are offered quarterly. The next class will be in August.
Moving Out!
After Easter Sunday, on Monday and Tuesday (April 22 and 23), all the remaining items that need to go with us to CUCC need to be moved. Please click this link to let us know if you can come by and help--even if you just have a few hours! At this time, we are primarily looking for daytime volunteers. Given so many people work during these hours, if you are available, we really need you!
This year's Trivia Night will be held on Saturday, April 6th. Doors will open at 5pm and Trivia will begin promptly at 6pm. Our theme for this year is “Happy Holidays,” so brush up on your history of Valentine’s, Independence, and New Years Day as well as trivia related to Halloween, Christmas, and more! It will be a blast!
Thanks to everyone who reserved our table. We are now sold out! If you need to make an individual reservation or pay for a previously made reservation, please send an email below.. There are plenty of opportunities to donate to or sponsor (click on the link below) the Trivia event. Thanks for supporting a great cause, and we promise it will be worth every dime!
Join us at the Follow-Up Forum to the Building Search information presented at the March 3 Congregational Forum. You can expect to hear:
. Information on a temporary worship location
. updates on our purchase efforts
. feed-back from you and fellow congregants
We want to hear from you, so don't miss this important follow-up forum.
On the third Saturday of every month, MCCGSL will be holding a Monthly Prayer Vigil until our new church home is found. The first vigil was on February 16. Thanks for all who participated. The next vigil will be on Saturday, March 16. Signups will be for 15 minute increments beginning at 7am and ending at 7pm. There will be two openings for each time slot. We are asking everyone who signs up to pray from their home (or wherever they are) during the time that they selected. Suggested prayer ideas will be sent to those who sign up. Please follow the link below to pick your time.
For 2019, our Lenten Sermon Series is entitled, “Reconnecting with an Unhurried God.” In our busy world, God invites us to slow down. As part of that invitation, everyone is invited to sign up to receive a daily mediation/reflection email to help you focus your spiritual life during Lent. MCC of Greater Saint Louis, MCC Omaha, and Pikes Peak MCC (Colorado Springs) are partnering to do this series and these reflections, so it is also a wonderful opportunity to connect with other MCC folks! Simply click the button below to sign up.
“Come to me all you who are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, I will give you rest.” — Matthew 11:28
Please read the Welcome Team Position Descriptions below and decide how you would like to help our first time guests feel welcome!
1. Be a Greeter and greet our first time guests and the door and show them around before taking them to a seat with a Seat Partner.
2. Be a Seat Partner and sit with our first time guests during worship and introduce them to people around you before escorting them to the Connection Corner after worship.
3. Be a Connection Corner Host and talk with our first time guests after worship, answer their questions and give them their free gift.
If you have been visiting for a while and want to learn more about our church, this class is for you! All are welcome and there is no requirement to become a member.
In the class, we will explore what MCC believes, the work we feel called to do and the ways we are invested in your spiritual life. Lunch and breakfast are provided.
Want to connect with other people closer to your own age? If you are 19-30 years old, then this will be a great way to make new friends whose life experiences mirror your own. The group will enjoy different activities and experiences together.
Book Choice: Grace for Amateurs, by Lily Burana
This group will explore all things Broadway and Musicals from the movie "Camp" to a field trip for a Broadway touring show here in town. We'll sing along to Showtunes, and learn about all that happens behind the scenes. Whether you know a lot or nothing about it is not important. You only need to be willing to enjoy all kinds of musical theatre, movies, soundtracks, and original Broadway cast recordings.
Book Choice: If God is Love, by Phillip Gulley and James Mulholland
Enjoy a leisurely Saturday morning where you can work on your favorite craft, encourage others in their crafts, and make new friends in the process. This will be a great time to create cool things and work on different projects you have going. This will also give us time to chat with each other about all kinds of things going on in our lives.
Book Choice: Grace for Amateurs, by Lily Burana
Since our choir already meets every Thursday night, they naturally form a Meetup Group. Each week they will practice and sing in preparation for worship, concerts, and events, and while they are together they will also participate in our grace-themed devotions.
Book Choice: 2019: A Book of Grace-Filled Days, by Margaret Felice
If you love to line dance or want to learn how, a couple of experts will be joining you each week to offer free lessons! Yes! You and others who find this to be a fun and exciting idea will enjoy the thrills of line dancing together each week!
Book Choice: 2019: A Book of Grace-Filled Days, by Margaret Felice
This group will be finding great places to Dine one week and then Dive Into great discussion about grace the next week! It is often true that gathering around the table to eat and gathering around a home to share our stories are two of the greatest bonding experiences people can have. Make your home with this group!
Book Choice: Grace, by Max Lucado
Do you enjoy playing board games and trying out new ones? Do you have a love for good-spirited competition? This group will be perfect for you! Thanks to the tremendous collection of games at Pieces Café in Soulard, each week we will choose from hundreds of games, sometimes a classic, sometimes a brand new adventure. It will be a great opportunity to enjoy an atmosphere of fun while also getting to know others.
Book Choice: If God is Love, by Phillip Gulley and James Mulholland
This group will embody the soul of adventurers by leaving themselves open to all kinds of experiences. These may include cooking something seasonal, a cake decorating lesson, discussing what we should be doing in the garden at this time of year, indoor plants, orchid growing pointers, learning about the history of St. Louis as a slave state and anything else that the group might want to explore.
Book Choice: If God is Love, by Phillip Gulley and James Mulholland
As the ground-breaking show, “The Walking Dead,” returns from the winter break for the second half of season nine, we will gather to watch what happens as our favorite characters encounter “The Whisperers.” For the hour before the show begins, we will enjoy our time together and discuss our book. Join this fun group of folks to scream and cheer on the remaining humans of the zombie apocalypse!
Book Choice: Grace, by Max Lucado
A chance to start your Sunday off with friends, a cup of coffee (or tea, or even a bit of something to eat), a good book and discussion before heading off to church. What a great way to make friends who enjoy these things as much as you do!
Book Choice: If God is Love, by Phillip Gulley and James Mulholland
4:30pm Service
Our 4:30pm service will feature a couple of special moments for children while also being an enjoyable Christmas Eve Service for people of all ages. This is a moving service that will fill your heart with Christmas joy.
11:00pm Candlelight Service
This late night service geared to adults will run from 11pm-12am and feature a “Silent Night” candlelight welcome at the precise moment of the arrival of Christmas Day. Join us for this truly special moment of celebrating the arrival of Christmas morning.
On the longest night of the year, December 21st at 7:00pm, we take some time out from the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season to acknowledge that, for many, moving through the holidays is less than joyful. If you carry grief, sadness, or a general sense of melancholy through the holiday season, this is an opportunity to acknowledge it and discover new ways of honoring the feelings while also releasing them so that celebrating Christmas can be more joyful.
This is one of the highlights of the year! You can ensure to enjoy this night of music. Join us on Saturday, December 15 or on Sunday, December 16 at 6pm for the annual MCCGSL Choir Concert, “His Name Shall Be Called.” The concert is free, so come on out and bring your friends.
Calling all kids! Calling all kids!!! Santa Claus will be in the house…just days before Christmas! Come talk to Santa and have your picture taken with him so all your Christmas wishes are heard! There will be craft activities as well as picture taking. Parents, bring the kids! This will be great fun!
Our city-wide World AIDS Day observance will be held at MCCGSL this year. We will gather on Friday, November 30th at 5:30pm to remember, share stories, and lift up those who are living with HIV/AIDS. There will also be a special time to speak the names of and pray for those we have lost. A free drinks and appetizers reception sponsored by Wal-Greens and Food Outreach will follow.
Join us for this annual tradition where we will “Deck the Halls” of our church for the Christmas Season. While we put up Christmas Trees and other decorations, we will share in great music of the season along with some hot chocolate and other holiday treats!
Beginning on Sunday, November 25, we will be collecting toys for children in the community aided by Project Ark. Every year, our congregation loves being part of the Christmas joy that families might not otherwise experience. When you do your Christmas shopping, remember these families. Check the 2018 Wish List below for more specific information about the toys desired. Please bring the toys to the MCC Outreach Team at their table in The Engage Room by Sunday, December 16.
Transgender Day of Remembrance is an annual opportunity to raise awareness about violence toward transgender people and to remember those who were slain in the last year.
This year's event will be held at the St. Louis Transgender Memorial Garden at 1469 S. Vandeventer Avenue (at Hunt Ave) in The Grove.
Join us on Sunday, November 4, 2018, for our Annual Congregational Meeting. At this meeting we will vote on the 2019 proposed budget, the Board Candidates, reports from our leadership, and hear more about our building sale and search process. An agenda and other documents for the meeting are below.
With Bill Hurst’s recent withdrawal as a candidate, we now have four candidates running for four positions. This means that the vote for the candidates will be one of affirmation. Candidates must receive at least 50% plus one of the quorum of members on election day in order to be seated on the Board. If anyone is not seated, the Board of Directors will appoint a member to fill the vacancy.
