Ash Wednesday Worship

Ash Wednesday Worship
Wednesday, February 22
6:30 p.m.

We also invite you to join us for dinner, serving from 5:45-6:20pm

Kids Club will meet at its regularly scheduled time

Get to know our new Kids Club Coordinator

Brentwood is thrilled to welcome our new Wednesday evening Kids Club Coordinator, Iyshia Smith.  We invite you to join us on Wednesday, February 8, for an informal “Meet and Greet” during the all-church dinner, starting at 5:45 pm.  Parents and kids will also have a chance to get to know Iyshia throughout Kids Club on the same night. Originally from St. Louis, Iyshia is an elementary-education student at Missouri State University, where she is also a member of the Dean’s List. She comes with a variety of experiences working with children and we are very excited to welcome her to Brentwood. We hope you will make plans to get to know Iyshia at the Meet and Greet on February 8th!

Update from Kids’ Club

Another update from Jessica Robbins, Kid’s Club Volunteer Leader (Feb. 2):

Wow!  The kids had another fantastic night!  We wrapped up our Creation unit with an art and building night.  We finished our creation story books, dot painted on butcher paper, and built with Legos.  We have some amazingly talented kids.

Next week kids can look forward to a one week unit on caring for God’s creation.  We will explore the world of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax and learn many ways we can help take care of the environment.

Kids Club would like to ask folks to save paper towel and toilet paper tubes and glass baby food jars with lids for some future projects.

Thanks to all our kids for another great night! We learned more about God’s creation, made paper plate animals, built ice sculptures, designed structures with K-Nex, and enjoyed a rousing game of pop the penguin.

Kids can look forward to another exciting night next Wednesday.  We will be finishing our creation books and will have art and building stations.

Here are some pics that Jessica took:

Remembering the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Join us on Monday, January 16, at the Mediacom Center at 9:15 am for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. March and Celebration. The march will begin promptly at 9:30 am, followed by a celebration at 10 am at Drury University’s Clara Thompson Hall. The guest speaker for the event will be Dr. Tererai Trent (who has been a featured guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show) – a Zimbabwean-American whose unlikely story of educational success has inspired many. Whether or not you are able to attend the march and celebration, we encourage you to find a way to make this day a “day on” rather than a day off, in honor of the great work Dr. King did in his lifetime to give a voice to the voiceless and hope to the hopeless.

New Year’s Day Worship – Only one service

Please note that on New Year’s Day we will have one combined worship service at 10 a.m. We hope you can kick off the new year at Brentwood!!

Advent & Christmas Activities

December 21 – Children & Youth Musical, 6:30 p.m.
December 21 – All-Church Christmas Party, 7 p.m.
December 24 – Christmas Eve Candlelight Service, 6:30 p.m.
December 25 – One Worship service at 10 a.m.

Hanging of the Green — this Sunday!

 This Sunday, November 20, we invite you to join us for our annual Hanging of the Green.  This is a very important event in the life of our church as we prepare for the Advent and Christmas seasons.  We can use your help decorating the sanctuary for this beautiful time of year. We will meet in the sanctuary at 6:00 pm – we hope to see you there!

Dream. Think. Be. Do.

Dream. Think. Be. Do.
An introduction to progressive Christianity
Wednesdays from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. beginning Nov. 2nd

DreamThinkBeDo features the insights of over twenty-five theologians and teachers at the top of their game, including Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, Rita Nakashima Brock, and many others. This DVD-based study is produced by Living the Questions, an organization dedicated to introducing progressive Christianity to those seeking an open and inclusive approach to the Christian faith that values both the mind and the heart.

Facilitated by Dr. Tim Robbins, professor at Drury University.

A presentation on Islam by students at MSU

Students, family, and friends are invited to attend a discussion on some of the most misunderstood topics in Islam, presented by Muslim students from Missouri State University. A Q&A session will also be held.

Where:
Room 314, Plaster Student Union, Missouri State University

When:
Tuesday, November 8^th, 2011
7:00 – 8:00 PM

Planting Peace for September 11

Planting Peace
Sunday, September 11, 2011

On the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks we hope to reflect and respond to the tragedy in a healthy and productive way. Therefore, we will be working with members of the Springfield Islamic Center, Baha’i Assembly, and other local communities of faith to engage in some much needed landscaping at Truman, Jeffries and Delaware Elementary schools immediately following the 11:00 am worship service on Sunday, September 11.  We will meet in the fellowship area outside the sanctuary and decide which school each person would like to go to.

Truman Elementary
3850 N. Farm Rd. 159
Springfield, MO 65803
*Work to be done at this location includes planting and laying mulch.

Jeffries Elementary
4051 S. Scenic Ave.
Springfield, MO 65807
*Work to be done at this location includes general landscaping.

Delaware Elementary
1505 S. Delaware Ave.
Springfield, MO 65804
*Work to be done at this location includes weeding, mulching, planting and constructing trellises.

Work will begin at each site from 12:00 pm (or as soon as you can arrive) to 4:00 pm and we encourage each person to bring a sack lunch so that we can all sit together for a meal prior to beginning work.

Please join us as we plant peace in Springfield!