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Living Abundantly: Connecting-GrowingServing Mainstreamers is a ministry by, with and for Senior Adults.
November 11, Mainstreamers Honoring Veterans Day with wartime remembrances through stories, music, keepsakes and mementos. Bring your pictures and other keepsakes (ration books, letters and cards, souvenirs and things left from those years) to share. Bring your stories of your lives during the war years that we can tell one another. We will listen to some music of those times by Rob Landes. Dr. Tom Pace will offer a special message. All are invited to share memories and stories, to bring mementos for display and to join together in the fellowship of this special day of celebration. Lunch buffet at noon $10. Call Kathy Neely, 713-402-5139, for reservations by Tuesday, November 9. November 18, Day Trip: 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Our Day Trip will take us to Baylor College of Medicine to visit the new Michael E. DeBakey Library and Museum. Our docent will be Ruth Sorelle, longtime medical writer and authority on the history of the Texas Medical Center. After our tour we will have lunch at Danton’s Seafood on Montrose. $20. Please call Kathy Neely, 713-402-5139, for reservations. December 9, Mainstreamer Day 10:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. in Fellowship Hall. Rev. Nancy Kellond will be with us to present her very special one-woman portrayal of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Nancy, who many of you will remember from her time as a pastor here at St. Luke’s some years ago, is Senior Pastor at Klein UMC. We have a special musical treat planned as well. Our very own senior chorale group will entertain us with music and stories of the season. It will be a warm and wonderful day, topped off with a holiday buffet. $10. Call Kathy Neely, 713402-5139, for reservations.
Eternal Light: A Requiem
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n All Saints Sunday evening, November 7, the Chancel Choir, Early Music Ensemble and orchestra of St. Luke’s will once again present the exceptional piece, Eternal Light: A Requiem, composed by Howard Goodall. Commissioned in 2008, Eternal Light is a “fresh and unorthodox interpretation of the Requiem Mass,” in the sense that Goodall intended it to be a Requiem for the living. Exquisitely beautiful, the ten movements incorporate traditional Latin texts, intertwined with hymns and secular poetry that most will recognize, such as John Newman’s “Lead Kindly Light” and John McCrae’s “In Flanders Fields.” Howard Goodall is a well-known composer in England, where he is a prodigious writer of choral works and music for television, radio and theater. He’s been the recipient of over a dozen major international broadcast awards and is a tireless advocate for music education. Mark your calendars to be in the Sanctuary at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday evening, November 7, to savor this experience, and to celebrate and remember those who have gone before, as the Chancel Choir, Early Music Ensemble and orchestra present Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light: A Requiem. All are welcome; there is no charge for admission.
December 11: A.D. Players production of A Christmas Unwrapped. This A.D. Players holiday treat is a collection of holiday comedies by Jeannette Clift George, where the audience selects which three of four touching and hilarious one-act plays will be performed each day. These holiday treats include a mix of characters who, in the end, all find friendship, joy and the true meaning of Christmas in the unlikeliest of circumstances. Lunch before at an area restaurant and tickets are limited, call now to reserve your place, 713-402-5139. Warm Your Heart Project Mainstreamers is sponsoring an outreach project to provide Christmas gifts for low income, homebound seniors through the Food For Seniors program of Interfaith Ministries of Greater Houston. Donations are being accepted to finance 500 baskets containing fruit and other food items. $10 will provide one basket for one person, but donations in any amount are gratefully accepted. December 14 -15, volunteers will gather in Fellowship Hall from 9 a.m.-noon to assemble the baskets and get them ready for pick up by Interfaith Ministries. This is a great time of fellowship and caring that you will want to be a part of… the more hands, the merrier! Come for the whole time or for any part of the time that suits your schedule.
youth activities A calendar of youth activities is available online at www.stlukesmethodist.org/programs/youth