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Calendar of Upcoming Virtual & in-Person Meetings .... Welcome to June

SPECIAL AND ONGOING EVENTS

• SPECIAL

  • The combined choirs of Calvary and FPCHW-Homewood will  Rehearse at Calvary, June 7 @7:00 p.m. (click on photo to enlarge)

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• ONGOING
1. Tuesdays: 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday Morning  at a Zoom meeting.  We are ordering our new book: "Watch this space about how to order the next book"'. 
2. Change: we are now meeting First Tuesdays (June 6): Book Study | Kathleen O'Hanlon | We are exploring with a sample of a new book, "Me, and White Supremacy", How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World", by Layla Saad | Call Kathie Hazlett 708-471-3626 if you need more info about access.  Zoom Link:  7:00-8:30 p.m. (Central time) 
3. Wed, June 7 – Combined Choir Rehearsal @ Calvary, 7:00 p.m.
4. Thursday, June 15 at 6:00 pm: Men's Fellowship Gathering || Join us at Paulie's Pub ||| 2736 Chicago Rd, South Chicago Heights, for a few pops, a devotion, and Christian fellowship. Hope to see you there. 
5. Sunday: Access to our Live Streaming Service can be found on the "Worship Page" | Post Sunday Streaming Worship Meet-up (aka Heavenly Perks) which also meets, in person. 
6. Healing & Wholeness Service date is: TBD.  We offer access to a Healing & Wholeness Service online  at any time.  This service is a time of reflection, prayer, and meditation.  This service can help us to experience anew God’s healing, peace-giving grace or refuel us for becoming agents of healing and reconciliation.  Taking time for this mimics a pattern for Jesus and his disciples.  They would be out in the thick of a clamoring multitude and then retreat to a quiet place to reconnect, recharge, and clarify their mission.  Our quiet place awaits us in this service online.  (Watch for an announcement for maybe private prayer time on Zoom after this service.) | Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for prayer needs request.

Looking forward | scripture readings for sUNDAY, June 11 -- Genesis 12:1-9  and mATTHEW 9:9-13, 18-26

Genesis 12:1-9 ||| New Revised Standard Version

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” 4So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5Abram took his wife Sarai and his brother’s son Lot, and all the possessions that they had gathered, and the persons whom they had acquired in Haran; and they set forth to go to the land of Canaan. When they had come to the land of Canaan, 6Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land. 7Then the Lord appeared to Abram, and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built there an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 8From there he moved on to the hill country on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and invoked the name of the Lord. 9And Abram journeyed on by stages toward the Negeb.

Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 ||| New Revised Standard Version

9As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up and followed him. 10And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with him and his disciples. 11When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” 12But when he heard this, he said, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners.”

18While he was saying these things to them, suddenly a leader of the synagogue came in and knelt before him, saying, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.” 19And Jesus got up and followed him, with his disciples. 20Then suddenly a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his cloak, 21for she said to herself, “If I only touch his cloak, I will be made well.” 22Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well. 23When Jesus came to the leader’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd making a commotion, 24he said, “Go away; for the girl is not dead but sleeping.” And they laughed at him. 25But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl got up. 26And the report of this spread throughout that district.