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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH J E F F E R S O N C I T Y, M O
Dear Church, With nearly seven hundred thousand deaths in this country alone, who has not been touched by the Covid-19 pandemic? Our Sundays in October will focus on the narrative arc of Job’s story. We’ll hear Job as a dramatic play in four acts that explore his story. Upon entering the sanctuary, you will be given a Playbill that gives a synopsis of the play and specific information about each of the four acts. On the back will be discussion questions you can use wherever you meet with a group of likeminded believers who want to explore how the complicated issues of loss and grief are experienced. Come with an open heart and your questions. All of life is a story. Story is a way of seeing, a way of organizing
experience We are a meaningmaking people who experience the pendulum of life lived between experience and reflection., and a way of making sense of life. Things happen and we ponder their meaning. When significant events occur, we go deep seeking to know why those events have such power in us. How do we interpret these unplanned events that shape & redirect our lives? What happens when the normal course of life is altered? What do we do with the interruption that takes over our life’s story? It can be the simplest of things. It can be the intrusion no one sees coming. No matter, when life’s direction is broken, the whole of life takes a new turn.
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UPCOMING October 8 Project Homeless Connect October 10 8:15am & 10:45am Sylvia Ferguson, Worship Guest October 14 Red Cross Blood Drive 1-5:30 pm Fellowship Hall October 24 Quarterly Business Mtg Noon, Sanctuary October 31 Trunk or Treat 3-5 pm