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Claire Krob is a junior at Kirkwood High School and has been in Girl Scouts since kindergarten. Claire has completed her bronze and silver award and now is about to finish her gold award. For context the gold award in Girl Scouts is equivalent to an Eagle Scout project for Boy Scouts.
Claire wanted to focus on providing an outlet for the busy hands of the congregation during worship at Glendale Presbyterian Church while also making worship accessible to everyone in different spots at the church. Claire worked to fill out a grant opportunity from Wonder of Worship, Columbia Theological Seminary. With this money, she was able to purchase a cabinet that would store fidgets, activities, books and more to help be a resource for the congregation. With the rest of the money provided from the grant, Claire and her team were able to buy a TV and a shelf that would be placed in the nursery. The purpose of these items were to help parents and kids of the congregations to still be able to connect and watch worship even in a different room.
This project has been a big task to complete and Claire would like to thank her team of Matt Krob, Pastor Kathleen, Linde Weber and the congregation of GPC who helped her every step of the way. This project would also not have been made possible without the Wonder of Worship Grant from Columbia Theological Seminary and the guidance from Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri.
Adult small groups are held throughout the year for Bible study and book study.
Glendale Presbyterian Church supports the Covenant Network of Presbyterians, a broad-based, national group of clergy and lay leaders working for a church that is simultaneously faithful, just, and whole.
The Covenant Network of Presbyterians Mission Statement:
Confident in God’s hopeful future and grateful for the ever-widening welcome of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Covenant Network of Presbyterians seeks an equity still not fully realized for LGBTQIA+ people in church and society, by: engaging the church to invite all of God’s children into safe and welcoming congregational spaces of affirmation, healing, dignity and purpose; educating the church to expand our welcome of LGBTQIA+ people, to affirm their gifts for ordained office, and to uphold marriage equality for all; and equipping the church to bear witness to justice through advocacy and activism at the international, national and local church levels; speaking a prophetic word in anxious and divided times; and standing with others in fighting hate and oppression against any of God’s children. The Covenant Network of Presbyterians calls the church to bear a unified witness to generous hospitality and faithful justice.
Please click the following link to learn more about the Covenant Network of Presbyterians organization: https://covnetpres.org
Glendale Presbyterian Church supports the Webster-Rock Hill Ministries through financial donations, as well as making regular donations of food, clothing, and personal care items.
GPC participates annually in various WRHM programs, including the Back-to-School Backpack Program, Thanksgiving Basket, and the Christmas Adopt-a-Family programs.
The WRHM Mission Statement:
Webster-Rock Hill Ministries is a cooperative effort of member churches to fulfill their commission to serve people in need in our community. We wish to create alternatives for those who feel they have none.
This includes people who lack the physical necessities of life, emotional resources to cope, or spiritual counsel. WRHM works to create community by promoting understanding between people and groups.
In doing so, we provide opportunities for diverse members of our community to work together across lines of class, age, race and denomination.
Please click the following link to learn more about the WRHM organization: www.wrhm.org
Our church has supported Room at the Inn for over 25 years, serving for the first years as a safe stay for homeless women and families one or two designated nights a month and now supporting RATI with funds and food as the program has shifted to a permanent location to provide stability for the families it supports.
Room at the Inn provides immediate, temporary shelter to homeless women and families in the St. Louis region. In addition, they work with them to create an individualized plan back to self-sufficiency, including referrals to other human services agencies. Then they mentor them to improve their chances for success.
Please click the following link to learn more about the Room at the Inn organization: www.roomstl.org
Every year our congregation supports all four of the PCUSA Special Offerings:
Christmas Joy Offering: https://specialofferings.pcusa.org/offering/christmas-joy
One Great Hour of Sharing: https://specialofferings.pcusa.org/offering/oghs
Pentecost Offering: https://specialofferings.pcusa.org/offering/pentecost
Peace and Global Witness Offering:https://specialofferings.pcusa.org/offering/peace-global-witness/
On the First Sunday of each month you can donate can goods or cash and you may just take home a delicious dessert! For each can good, or dollar donated, you will receive an entry into the drawing. All donations will be contributed to the Webster - Rock Hill Food Pantry. The winner will be drawn during Coffee Fellowship.
GPC members and friends seek Christ’s hands in service throughout the surrounding community, the City of St. Louis, and the world at large.
Organizations supported actively and/or financially by GPC:
Food Pantry Shopping List
The Mission and Service station is located by the parking lot doors. You may leave your donations in the marked wire baskets.
