Chicago Presbytery took action in 2019 to become a Matthew 25 Presbytery — one of 93 presbyteries in the PC(USA) to do so. We are working to dismantle systemic poverty, dismantle structural racism, and build up congregational vitality.
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Each week at @mayfairpreschicago, Rev. Stef Coleman prepares sermon bingo for the children.
📸 by Craig Howard
This year, the National Day of Racial Healing is on January 20. Bethel New Life (a worshipping community that holds worship services and shares a pastor with Hope Presbyterian Church in Wheaton) is hosting a National Day of Racial Healing celebration on Sunday, January 18, at 1 PM. All are welcome. Rev. Dr. Craig Howard will be speaking.
We were blessed by a presbytery pop-up choir yesterday at the Epiphany worship gathering.
🎥 by Ian Suwanski
What a great day for Epiphany worship as a presbytery!
Thank you to @sixthgracechicago for the BEST hospitality!
And thanks to everyone for joining in this no-business worship service where experienced the Light that has come into the world, installed new leadership, and celebrated the work God is doing throughout the presbytery –– with an eye to what we can learn by the Magi who took a different route as the Spirit led.
For Epiphany, Friendship Presbyterian Church took communion by eating stars.
Star-shaped bread, shared hand to hand,
a small and holy reminder that God’s light still finds its way into our mouths, our bodies, our lives.
Learn more about this special Epiphany gathering and register. We hope you`ll stay for lunch! https://chicagopresbytery.org/presbytery-assembly/
Mayfair Presbyterian Church hosted neighbors who are unhoused or lack heating over the weekend of the 13th/14th during the cold snap. We partnered with three other neighborhood organizations to provide dinner Saturday and Sunday night with warm, comfortable air mattresses and sleeping cots both nights. Over 40 individuals took advantage of the time to get warm. Over 12 unhoused neighbors spent the nights in our Fellowship Hall but many more took naps, ate, and received free donations of gently used clothing, new hygiene items, and new socks/gloves.
Mayfair Presbyterian Church hosted neighbors who are unhoused or lack heating over the weekend of the 13th/14th during the cold snap. They partnered with three other neighborhood organizations to provide dinner Saturday and Sunday night with warm, comfortable air mattresses and sleeping cots both nights. Over 40 individuals took advantage of the time to get warm. Over 12 unhoused neighbors spent the nights in our Fellowship Hall but many more took naps, ate, and received free donations of gently used clothing, new hygiene items, and new socks/gloves.
Last Sunday, Rev. Dr. Craig Howard preached at Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Wheeling and took these photos of their fabulous musicians and choir.
Join friends and colleagues from around the Presbytery of Chicago at 4 PM on Tuesday, December 16, for an Epiphany Star-Making Party!
We’ll be creating the “Star Words” that will be shared both at the January 6 presbytery gathering and in the congregations where you worship or serve—and we need your help to make them!
Visit our website and newsletter to RSVP and learn more about star words.
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