“Are you available to provide a ride for someone?” is a call I get sometimes from our volunteer office. It may be for a ride for a medical appointment, to be picked up after their dialysis treatment, to attend Mass, or to go shopping. Many of us at Peace are volunteers with Faith in Action, Drive a Senior, Northwest who “drive a senior” somewhere. . We help men and women who are not able to drive or should not be driving. I especially like to help people who are on kidney dialysis. Read more…
Meals on Wheels
I started delivering meals during my lunch hour while working for IBM in 2000. It was super simple. When someone is trying to dip their toe into volunteering, Meals on Wheels delivery is a perfect start. The commitment can be as little as once a month delivery for an hour. We all have an hour! Read more…
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Jul '20
7/26/20 – Dialogue on Race
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Jul '20
Say It Loud: I’m Black and I’m Proud – Anti-Blackness, Oppression, and the Dehumanization of Black Bodies
The focus of this session is on the experience of being black. What is it like to walk through the world today in a black body? We will start to grapple with conscious and unconscious bias and acknowledge that we all hold them. Our job is not to eliminate them – that’s impossible – but to recognize them and understand how they influence our beliefs, assumptions and experiences.
*See the weekly email for the link or email us.
Facilitators: Vaike O’Grady & Lisa Pursiheimo
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Jul '20
Holy Communion begins Aug 2
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Jul '20
These past five months have brought challenges, fears, and suffering…and also some surprising joys. I am grateful for technology that allows many of us to stay connected even from the distance we must keep for the sake of safety.
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Jul '20
Donation Drive Thru on July 26
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Jul '20
Let’s celebrate Christmas in July! On July 26, from 1:00 to 6:00 pm, you can drop off donations…both for our neighbors through Hill Country Community Ministries…and for Peace’s un-budgeted expenses to prepare for proper disinfection procedures when we regather in person. Read more…
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Jul '20
Lutherhill Virtual Day Camp
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Jul '20
Lutherhill Ministries is offering a Virtual Day Camp on their website, and its 100% free! Read more…
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Jul '20
Online Middle School Retreat
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Jul '20
JHaMS at AC is usually four days at Austin College with dozens of your closest rising 6th-9th grade friends. But this year, we’re going all online – but not like boring Zoom calls – this is going to be fun and interactive and possibly weird at times, but in a good way.
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Jul '20
Interested in Handbells?
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Jul '20
It will probably be a while before a group of us can sing together, due to the high risk of transmitting the virus through this particular activity. However, maybe while we can’t sing together-we can ring together!!
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Jul '20
7/19/20 – Dialogue on Race
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Jul '20
Christmas Cookies from Cambodia – The Bible and Race in America
This week we will take a deep dive into the Bible and consider how it has been used—and misused—in conversations about race throughout US history. We’ll deal with the concept of “the other,” a thread that runs through the entire Biblical narrative. Alongside it runs the all-too-human impulse to divide ourselves into groups that include some and exclude others.
*See the weekly email for the link or email us.