Palm Sunday

We celebrated Palm Sunday with procession and singing.  Here are photos of the line up and the procession and the Children's Time.  Just click to enter the post and then follow this link.

Worship on March 21

During the Children’s Time this morning, Jenny led the kids through a consideration of recycling material goods as caring for the planet and how God makes old things new.  The video of the Children’s time is on the Picasa site.  I have posted the links to the site on the new web site which is at PilgrimUCC-StL.org.

You will see the new site and you can click on the title of any post to see the whole thing.  Just click on the title for “Worship on March 21” and it will take you to the link for the Picasa site.  Most of Children’s Time is in the video.

Or, just click on this link.

OGHS Sunday

We gathered our offerings for One Great Hour of Sharing today. Here are pictures of the worship service with a short video of Children's Time. I am still learning. It turns out I don't have a way to rotate the image of a video after it is filmed. Sorry.

2010-03-14 - OGHS

We also viewed a video about the places One Great Hour of sharing donations go to work. If you missed it you can find a link at the new Pilgrim web site. It is still under development but it is functional. Check it out at http://pilgrimucc-stl.org and view the video.

Meditations from Women’s Sunday

I promise I won't send a new post every day, but here are the links to the sermon meditations from last Sunday on the new web site we are developing.

http://www.pilgrimucc-stl.org/blogs/pastors-blog/meditations-from-womens-sunday/

Mark

Southminster at Soup Kitchen

Once a month our friends from Southminster Presbyterian come to volunteer at the Soup Kitchen. Here are stills and a short video taken with our new camera.

2010-03-10 Soup Kitchen

Re-branding Pilgrim

I just posted an announcement about the upcoming Service Sunday and noticed that I couldn't read the title of my own post when it came through by email. The name of the blog is so long it cancels out the post title.

Recently KWMU became St. Louis Public Radio. At first I thought the change was presumptuous (what about KDHX) and lame.  Besides the URL for stlouispublicradio.org is harder to enter than kwmu.org.  Both work.  But from the point of view of an announcer, how easy is it to say KWMU?  Say that three times quickly.

Similarly, I have heard many people stumble over the word "congregational."  That is not a concept that really speaks to people.  What is a congregationalist, anyway?

So for the purposes of both brevity and clarity, I suggest we start calling ourselves Pilgrim UCC, or, because there is more than one, Pilgrim UCC in St. Louis.  I am not suggesting we legally change our name.  But the URL for our website is PilgrimUCCStL.org.  [I am setting up a new site and have also bought the URL PilgrimUCC-StL.org]

Let me know what you think about this idea.

Service Sunday - April 11

On April 11, the first Sunday after Easter, we will worship in a different way.  After gathering for a brief time of prayer and singing, we will spread out around the community to do good.  Some projects will be in the neighborhood, some within the church.  Some projects will take fine motor skills, some will be more back and hands work.  All will be of service to the community and all will be to the glory of God.  This would be a good event to invite your friends to.