November Dates

November 22 – Preschool Thanksgiving Feast

November 27 – Serve at Grace Place

November 25-29 – Preschool Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday

November 27-29 – Church Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday

December Dates

December 1 - Hanging of the Greens (10:30 am)

December 6 - Fondren Christmas Parade (6:30 pm)

December 8 - Children's Christmas Pageant (4:30 pm)

December 15 - Youth & Children Christmas Party in the Rec Building (9:30 a.m.)

December 17 - Governance Team Meeting (5:30 pm)

December 20 - Preschool Christmas Program

December 22 - One Room Sunday School Ages 3-6th grade - room on 1st floor under the sanctuary; Youth will meet in Rec Building

December 22 - Blue Christmas Service (5:00 pm)

December 24 - Christmas Eve Services (3:00 pm & 5:00 pm)

December 29 - No Youth Group or Children's Sunday School

A note from Bruce from 6/27/2024:

I issued a challenge to everyone at worship this past Sunday. As I preached on Spiritual Gifts, I invited everyone to take a spiritual gifts survey and identity their three spiritual gifts. It's so important to know what your gifts are for a couple of reasons. If you're in tune to the gifts you have, you can more easily make decisions about where your gifts are needed in the church and in the world. But just as importantly, you know where you are NOT gifted, thereby reducing your chances to saying "yes" to something outside your gift-set.  That's so important! We all have experienced what happens when we say yes to projects where there's not a good fit:  burn-out, cynicism, exhaustion. DON'T LET THAT BE YOU!  

Below, you'll see an assessment that you can take. It takes about 15 minutes. I took mine today and came up with my three gifts: Evangelism, Teaching, and Exhortation (Encouragement). It's a lot of fun! Would you take this step in identifying your spiritual gifts? Also, there's a place where you can share your three gifts so that we can keep that in mind when we see opportunities for you to use them. Wouldn't it be amazing if a hundred people at St Luke's took the assessment and shared what their gifts are? That would be revealing.  It might even shape our mission and life at St Luke's.  

So, what are you waiting for? Thanks for taking the time. I look forward to seeing where we are gifted at St. Luke's!

Peace
Bruce

Complete your Spiritual Gifts Inventory HERE

Submit your results HERE

Share the Warmth

St. Luke’s is collecting much needed warm winter essentials for our November Mission of the Month. We ask for new or gently used adult and children’s items such as heavy socks, mittens, gloves, scarves, sweaters, sweatshirts, rain ponchos and coats to be donated. Some of the items will be kept at the church to distribute to our Fondren friends who come to the church looking for help. Any extras will be donated to various local agencies such as Stewpot and Gateway Mission. There will be a drop-off basket located in the Welcome Center starting November 1st. Thank you.

Proverbs 22:9 (NRSV)

Those who are generous are blessed,

    for they share their bread with the poor.

St. Luke’s provides snack bags for the homeless during office hours, Monday – Friday. Many times each week, we answer the door to someone who is in need of something to eat. There is a small group of people within the church who help us keep the supplies ready to use but we often run low. Please consider dropping off any of the items listed below. There is a basket located in the Gathering area and you can drop off on Sunday mornings or anytime that is convenient for you.  Thank you.

Snack Bag List

• Tuna salad & cracker packs
• Deviled ham
• Granola or cereal bars
• Protein bars
• Pop tarts
• Cheese or peanut butter crackers
• Small bags of chips
• Dried fruit or raisins
• Nuts/trail mix
• Vienna sausage/Beef jerky/Slim Jims
• Fruit cups
• Gum
• Candy

Youth Group meets on Sunday mornings from 9:30 - 10:15 in the Rec Building.

Our Children's Ministry team is starting fresh in 2024 with The Connection! The Connection is a time for children ages 3 to 6 to play and fellowship on Sunday mornings. No structured lessons - just play! The Connection will immediately follow Children's Moment. The Children's Ministry team will send our volunteers detailed instructions to the email provided on the sign up. The Children's Ministry team needs you! Please consider volunteering a few Sunday mornings in 2024 to provide a safe space where our children can play and make as many joyful noises as they desire. Click the link to sign up: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080444ADA82AABF85-46985998-theconnection