Grow

 Genesis speaks to some of our deepest questions. Why is the world the way it is? What is our place in the world? How does God fit in with it all? In this class, we will explore these core questions and more as we study the very beginning of the story of God that culminated in Jesus.

Eric Bergland is a Presbyterian pastor whose primary ministry is serving as a Chaplain in the Common Spirit St Frances Hospital network.  Eric is also a Parish Associate at MCPC providing pastoral care when our pastor is away and sharing his gifts in teaching and preaching with us.

 Is there anything more challenging than to say, “I’m sorry”?  There is something inside of us that resists those words.  And even when we are ready to repair a fissure in a relationship, our words of apology don’t always meet the needs of the other person.  Sometimes we need help understanding how we can apologize in meaningful and restorative ways.  Based upon the previous work of The Five Love Languages, author Dr Gary Chapman has created a study on the Five Apology Languages.  During this season of Lent, as God demonstrates his costly forgiveness towards us, let’s learn how to speak meaningful words of reconciliation to those we care about.  

Gretchen Murphy-Bowman is a longtime member of MCPC, an elder, a psychotherapist who assists families in healing from trauma, and an educator who has taught the Five Love Languages and the Five Languages of Apology in multiple settings.

How many times have you received a text or email promising you a free Computer or iPhone if you just clicked a link?  Or a notice that a UPS package has been held up and you need to update your address?  Or an email indicating that you owe money to the IRS and the police are on their way to arrest you?  Internet thieves are constantly finding ways to steal our identities or to con us out of money.  But it is not that hard to become scam savvy and to know how to protect yourself.  This one-hour workshop will help make us wise to the ways of scammers and to feel safer when we’re online.

Will Williams in the Director of IT for the Town of Monument.  Will regularly hosts internet security seminars at Silver Key Senior Services as his way of giving back to the community.  We are privileged to have Will help us feel safer when we’re online.

 The Women's GIFT (Growing In Faith Together) Bible study will begin again on Thursday, January 9, 2025.  We meet from 9:30-11:15 AM on Thursdays in the Adult Education Room.  This term we will be doing Kristi McLelland's study, Luke in the Land.  This study consists of video teaching and a workbook.  All women are invited to join us in this time of learning.

 

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