Tag: Prime Time events

On Tuesday, April 12, we will have lunch at 11:30 a.m. and then prepare 20 Easter baskets for the children living at Loaves and Fishes. We will dye Easter eggs and assemble baskets which will include small toys, stuffed animals, and candy. We could use your help even if you can’t come that day. You can pick up some items like Pez dispensers, Matchbox cars, princess figurines, bubbles, sidewalk chalk, books, or any other small toy items.  We will also need LOTS of candy.  If you are near a Dierbergs, some have chocolate crosses available. Even if you cannot attend that day, you can absolutely help with this project.

On April 26 at 10:00 a.m. we will go to Oakland House for a tour and luncheon. This home in Affton is the country home of Louis A. Benoist and has been restored to its original beauty from 1853.The cost is $22 per person.

In May, we have two great events planned. We will go to Warm Springs Ranch on May 9 to see the Clydesdales. Then on Saturday night, May 14 we will have our annual Legacy Banquet. Our entertainment will be provided by Ronna, Maggie, Rennae, John, and Dave with a variety of songs from the 50s, 60s and 70s, and our own Lowell Donnelly will give the devotional. You will definitely not want to miss this night.

I want to encourage you as the pandemic numbers continue to go down and the weather gets better, to resume your small groups and include your friends and neighbors.

What a difference a week can make in St. Louis weather! Today is a beautiful 72 degrees, and last week we were awaiting freezing rain, sleet, and snow. While we can’t count on the weather, we can count on our faithful God. While our world seems out of control, God is sovereign and in control. Thank Him for your blessings today and trust Him completely in the days to come.  He is loving and kind and good!

Our next trip is to the St. Louis Science Center to the OmniMax to see Wings over Water on Friday, March 11. Tickets are $11, but we will probably get a group discount or senior discount. We will leave church at 10:00 a.m. and go to the 11:00 a.m. movie. Afterwards we will go to the Fountain on Locust. Make sure to save room for ice cream!

The Scott Joplin House tour will be on Monday, March 28, leaving the church at 10:00 a.m. This is a state historic site which features a player piano in the modest flat rented by the king of ragtime and a museum about Scott Joplin’s life. Cost of the tour and museum is $6. Lunch will be at Crown Candy. I challenge you to a BLT!

Also mark your calendars for Saturday night, May 14 for our Annual Legacy Banquet. We will have great food, great fellowship, and great music!

Once again, we have a change of plans for our activities. Instead of going to Warm Springs Ranch on March 11, (since it isn’t open until April), we will go to the Science Center to watch Wings over Water on the Omnimax. The bus will leave at 10:00 a.m. Lunch TBA. I am open to suggestions! The cost will be $11.00 plus lunch.

I hope you have the Scott Joplin House and lunch on your calendar for March 28! This is a state historic site and features an authentic player piano that fills the house with his melodies as you walk through the flat on Delmar.  There is also a museum which celebrates Joplin’s life. The cost is $6.00, plus lunch.

Speaking of calendars, here are the tentative plans for the next quarter. Thank you for your patience as we navigate the waters of closed restaurants, staff shortages, and the supply chain. Flexibility is a wonderful quality.

Pencil in these activities for the upcoming quarter:

I am looking forward to many of you joining us on these fun excursions. Invite some friends to join us. Remember we were made for connection with God and with others.

It looks like the pandemic is finally waning. I’m hoping that soon I can see you all again face to face. It’s been a challenging season, but we have learned some valuable spiritual lessons during this time. One of those is that our lives are to be lived in community. We need the fellowship, encouragement, and iron sharpening iron in our lives that needs to be done in person. I hope that we haven’t become complacent and are satisfied with watching church in our jammies. It’s time to get back together so we can serve the church and the community.

I’m looking forward to a very special Valentine’s Day with many of you in a cave. Yes, we are going to Meramec Caverns that day at 10:00 a.m. We will eat lunch and then go on a cave tour.  The tour lasts 1 hour and 20 minutes and the cave is ADA accessible. There is one spot that has a few steps but if you are unable to traverse them, you can remain there, and the group will loop back around to you.

On Wednesday, February 23 we will meet in the Dining Room at 11:00 a.m. for chili and soup and then watch the movie, American Underdog. This is the story of our own Kurt Warner. Hope to see you then!

Keep on keeping on!

On Monday, February 14, we will head to Meramec Caverns at 10:00 a.m. We will have lunch and then tour the cave for about an hour and a half, and then head home. This is a great way to spend your Valentine’s Day. The tour cost is $24 plus lunch. PLEASE NOTE – THIS IS A DATE CHANGE FROM OUR ORIGINAL CALENDAR. The cave has reduced hours until February 14 and will not be open on our original date of February 11.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

I hope you all are keeping up in our reading of Joshua. I don’t know about you, but I am seeing some things I never saw before. So, keep on reading and be strong and courageous!

Happy New Year! Hope you haven’t broken too many of your resolutions yet. I would like to challenge all of you to read the book of Joshua with the entire church. We are only reading one chapter each day, and this will help you to develop the spiritual discipline of reading the Bible every day. It will change your day and your life If you want accountability, contact me about joining a T-group. You will be assigned a day each week to share what the LORD showed you while reading that day’s assigned chapter and then get to hear what your other group members gleaned from their assigned passages. Some of us have been doing this for over a year and love connecting with our group each day through the Marco Polo app on our phone.

We have made plans for some fun activities for the first quarter of 2022. With the latest Covid surge, we might need to be flexible with these plans, but please add these to your calendar.

I look forward to seeing each of you in this new year.

I am writing this Forerunner article to you before Thanksgiving, but you will not be reading it until after. Even so, I am going to go ahead and tell you what I am thankful for anyway.

Today I am very sad. I lost a good friend to COVID a few hours ago and a friend lost her mother today. If I were not a Christian, this would be an overwhelming day of loss. It is always sad for those of us when we lose a loved one, but I am thankful for the assurance I have that both are home safely with Jesus.

I am also thankful for each of you who are proud to call yourself senior adults. God has brought us a long way and given us a lot of wisdom along the way. I hope that you are pouring your life into some younger person to encourage them and help them to grow spiritually.

Finally, I am thankful that our paths have crossed, and I get to serve you and serve alongside of you. I hope you were in the recent testimony service and got to hear Samson’s testimony about serving in your local church. I have read the Bible from cover to cover many times and, no matter what the translation, I have not run into the word retirement. We may not be able to go out and build houses or load sandbags but we all can serve in some way. Find a way to serve others in the church and in the community.

I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and shared with your family what you were thankful for this year. While Thanksgiving is a wonderful reminder to be thankful, we have things to be thankful for each and every day. Tell the LORD each day how thankful you are for His goodness to you.

“I will thank the LORD with all my heart,

I will declare all your wondrous works,

I will rejoice and boast about you;

I will sing about your name Most High,”

(Psalm 9:1-2 CSB).

Thanks to those of you who went with me to serve at the St. Louis Area Food Bank last week. It was great to serve alongside you as we pursued the good of our community. I am planning on having the Prime Timers serve at least two times a year. I hope you will join us next time! I would also like to hear from you if you know of any other service opportunities that we might participate in. There is no mention of retirement in the Bible and we need to continue to serve the LORD until we go to see Him face to face!

We have a good group signed up to go to Old Town St. Charles for Christmas on December 4. Please sign up if you are going. Lunch will be at Lewis and Clark’s, followed by watching the parade and meeting a Santa representing every nation. There are bonfires, freshly baked cookies at Grandma’s Cookies, carolers, carriage rides, and a variety of shops to visit. The bus will leave church at 10:30 a.m. for lunch at 11:00 a.m. at Lewis and Clark’s. It will certainly put you in the Christmas spirit!

Speaking of Christmas spirit – we need to remember the greatest gift the world has ever received. We give gifts to others because God gave us the gift of Jesus. Our annual Angel Tree is a great way to share the love of Jesus (see details below)!

I’m looking forward to a good group of you going with me to the Missouri History Museum on Wednesday, November 17. This is a FREE event, and we will see the display of St. Louis Sound. After the museum, we will go to Zia’s for lunch.

Please sign up in the Connection Center and invite your friends! The bus will leave at 10:00 a.m.

On Saturday, December 4, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. we will traverse to Christmas Traditions in downtown St. Charles. Unfortunately, we were only able to get a reservation for 10 people at Lewis & Clark’s as they are not seating large groups during the Christmas season. It would be beneficial if 2 to 4 of you would get together and make your own separate reservations at Lewis and Clark, so we could all be there together.

After lunch, we will go out and see all the variations of Santa from different nations and watch the parade. There is also great shopping, fire pits, hot chocolate, and carriage rides! The signup sheet is in the Connection Center.

Greetings from beautiful downtown Branson, MO! I’m enjoying a little getaway before the Amana Colony trip. We have a good group going who confirmed their reservation by October 1. Each of you will be getting an emailed itinerary when I get back, but I can tell you that we will be leaving on Thursday, October 21 at 7:30 a.m. The bus is full and so is my car, so I had to turn away several because of no additional bus driver!

Our next adventure is Wednesday, November 3. We will have lunch at Cracker Barrel and then go serve from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the St. Louis Area Foodbank. I hope you can join us in pursuing the good of our community!

Then on November 17, we will be eating at everyone’s favorite place in St. Louis…Zia’s! But before you get to eat, we will go to the History Museum to look at their display on the sounds of St. Louis. It is a display of the music, stars, and history of musicians in St. Louis. I can’t wait to see Tina Turner!

Invite your friends and neighbors to go with us. It’s a good way to connect with others and bring them to Jesus.