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Pentecost Special Offering – May 17th and 24th

On Pentecost, the Spirit did not stay in one place. It moved outward — across languages, cultures, and every barrier people believed separated them. In that moment, a new kind of community was born, shaped by courage, generosity, and love.

That same Spirit is still moving today.

In a world where many people feel uncertain, divided, or disconnected from one another, the Church is called to be a different kind of presence — one that reflects Christ’s compassion, humility, and grace.

The Prophet Micah reminds us what God asks of us:
“To do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God.” — Micah 6:8

Not just believe.
Not just gather.
But to live in ways that bring healing and hope.

Because faith without justice is empty — and justice, at its heart, is love in action.

The Pentecost Offering helps support New Church Ministry and your Region to nurture emerging and affiliating faith communities. Through these ministries, new spaces are created where people can encounter God, build meaningful relationships, and serve their neighbors with compassion.

Your gift helps these communities grow in neighborhoods seeking connection and hope. Give via Givelify, on Sunday morning or by going to the Pentecost offering giving page.

Thank you for giving, praying, and helping the Spirit continue its work among us.

Stand Up for Social Justice – May Day Rally

Friday, May 1st from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM at S. Grand Boulevard and Flora Place

Join us, this is an opportunity to give voice to your concerns for peace and justice issues, we will be demonstrating with St. Margaret of Scotland’s Living Justice Ministries.

Bring a sign and make your voice heard.

St. Teresa of Avila wrote:

Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

We Have Moved!

• Why did we move?

The building on South Grand was our 4^th home since the congregation was founded in 1894. We are proud that over the past 75 years our stewardship of the building has provided a space for many organizations that have served our community – Isaiah 58 Ministries (Isaiah 58), Cornerstone Center for Early Learning, and Sherman School to name a few. Isaiah 58 has been our primary tenant for the past 30 years.  During that time, their ministry has grown and, in recent years, they indicated that they needed a bigger/more suitable space and a location closer to the people they serve. With Isaiah 58 planning to relocate, we felt that there are better uses of our energy, money, and talents than maintaining a building that would only be used one day a week. In July 2024, we made the decision to put our building up for sale and relocate.

• When and where did we move?

We are renting space in the former Holy Family Catholic Church – now owned by Power Creative located at 3221 Oak Hill Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63116. The building is on the corner of Oak Hill Avenue and Humphrey Street. Our last Sunday in the building on South Grand was November 2, 2025 – All Saints Sunday. Our first Sunday at our new location was November 9, 2025. 

• Has the church contact information change?

Our mailing address has changed. The new mailing address is: Compton Heights Christian Church, 3232 Clifton Ave. Box #21817, St. Louis MO 63139-9998. Our phone number remains the same: 314-240-0995.

• What else has changed?

We are renting instead of owning, so we no longer have responsibility for the maintenance of a building and grounds. There are two rooms that we have use of 24/7 – an office and a small classroom. The worship space, kitchen, and fellowship area are shared spaces; we have exclusive use of those spaces on Sunday mornings, but other uses will need to be scheduled with Power Creative. While there are changes, many things stay the same. We continue to worship on Sundays at 11 am, Worship and Wonder continues to be offered during worship, and we continue to have fellowship time following worship.

• What’s exciting about this move?

Maintaining the building on South Grand took an enormous amount of energy which is now freed up for ministry.  

• Where do we park?

There is a parking lot directly west of the building, off Humphrey Street. There is also street parking along Humphrey Street and Oak Hill Avenue. Entrance to the worship space is through the side entrances off Humphrey Street. Click here for more details regarding parking.

• What is happening to the building on South Grand?

We sold the building to a vibrant non-profit organization, St Louis BWorks. Their mission is to inspire youth to pursue their dreams, care for the world around them, and explore new possibilities through experiential learning. Visit St. Louis BWorks website at https://www.bworks.org/  for more information on that organization. Isaiah 58 has purchased a building that they are in the process of renovating, they will remain in the South Grand building until late 2026. We are happy that the building we have loved and that has served us, and so many others so well will be given new life as the new home of St. Louis BWorks.

Christmas Special Offering

Gifts to the Christmas Special offering support the work of regional ministries. Your regional ministry works to:

• Connect congregations to each other
• Foster faith development
• Gather Disciples in camps, conferences, and assemblies
• Nurture the development of a new generation of pastors
• Assist churches in calling new ministers
• Interpret the global mission of the Church
• Represent the Church in ecumenical gatherings
• Counsel and pray with those who are troubled of spirit
• Lead the Church to address racism
• Inspire leaders to experiment and create
• Witness to the power of God to make things new

Reconciliation Special Offering

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.” 2 Corinthians 5:17-20

Paul’s words in 2 Corinthians 5 invite us to see the world no longer from a human point of view but through the lens of God’s new creation. In Christ, the old order – built on rivalry, suspicion, and estrangement – has been decisively overturned. It is the launching of a new social reality in which divisions are healed and relationships restored

Funds collected by the Reconciliation Ministry Special Offering provide grants to ministries and congregations actively developing and implementing  programs that promote our Church’s Pro-Reconciliation and Anti-Racist identity.  These programs and efforts seek to reveal, re-educate, and remove systemic and structural barriers in our communities that serve to deny the image of God and human thriving based on race.

Your gift to Reconciliation Ministry strengthens our Church’s witness to God’s unending love for all of humanity.  The funds help support pro-reconciliation / anti-racism programs through education, camp and conference, and relationship-building in each expression of our Church. With your generosity, leaders, communities, and our congregations are being equipped to witness to God’s love and justice in all times and in every season.  The time is always ripe to stand up for justice to ensure that all of God’s children are treated equitably.  Thank you for joining us on this journey through your generosity.

2025 Tornado Recovery Effort

For additional ways to help – go to St. Louis City Give Help page

Pentecost Special Offering

GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND

It’s all about layers.

God breathing life into dust. Moses leading people out of slavery into freedom. Hagar calling on God to remember God’s covenant.

Layer after layer.

Mary saying yes. Jesus breaking bread. Young people seeing visions. Elders dreaming dreams.

Our ancestors building a movement for wholeness in a fragmented world. Going above and beyond church as it’s always been. Beyond borders and barriers. Beyond us and them. Building layers of community and color, spirituality and vision, justice and joy. Proclaiming the good news that the Spirit is still breathing new life and breaking new bread, and God’s people are still seeing visions and dreaming dreams.

Your participation in the 2025 Pentecost Offering lays down another layer, going above and beyond what’s been done to what God’s spirit is doing next.

Half of the gifts made to this Special Day Offering remain in the region in which they are collected to support its new church movement. The other half goes to support the efforts of New Church Ministry, which trains, equips, and assists emerging and affiliating communities of faith and their leaders across the U.S. and Canada so that they can become movement initiators. Make a gift on June 1 and June 8 to ensure that new places of worship are created, and God’s word is spread far and wide. Be a movement for wholeness in a fragmented world.

Week of Compassion Special Offering

Week of Compassion is more than a week. Week of Compassion is a ministry of the whole Church, serving vulnerable communities throughout the world. Any time and anywhere we respond to a need, we bear witness to the unity of the Lord’s Table, faithfully sharing the gifts that we have received as an expression of Christ’s love. As we work with partners, we represent the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) commitment to unity, allowing our resources and responses to reach farther, growing our impact on a global scale.

The money raised by this special offering goes to those in need in the United States and around the world, below are stories from some of the communities helped by Week of Compassion.

In Ukraine

In the Middle East

In Louisianna

In Sierra Leone and Liberia

In Chicago, Illinois

Reconciliation Ministry 21 days of Prayer

The Reconciliation Ministry of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to calls us practice faithfulness with regard to the elimination of racism, which exists in all manifestations of the church, to discern the presence and nature of racism as sin, to develop strategies to eradicate it, and to work toward racial reconciliation.

Starting with the day we commenorate the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s – Reconciliation Minstry invites us into 21 days of Prayer to strengthen us for the work for the journey of reconciliation; repairing and restoring that which separates us from the love and will of God.

Reconciliation Ministry has video reflections you can view, click here.