Debra Billops
Ruth Boone
Donna Coleman

Betty Craig
Ben Gaines
Clarice Gladney
Jan Good
Kathy Hampton

Ed Heininger
Kathryn Hewitt @Home
Georgianna Jackson @Home
Heloise Mayer
Lucille McCombs
Jewel Mercurio
Mariah Mitchell
Bea Parks
O. Ray Parks
Brooks Pumphrey
Claire Schumann
Gladys Shiroky
Ollie Simms
Ernst Stadler
Brian Witherspoon

For contact information to call
or send greetings, please contact the Pilgrim office at
(314) 367-8173 or via email to pilgrim826@sbcglobal.net.

If you are on Pilgrim’s Prayer list and no longer wish to be, please inform Pastor Allen or the Office Manager.  We are reluctant to randomly take people off; as we hesitate to assume that someone no longer needs the prayers of Pilgrim Church!

Transformation Disguised As Crucifixion:    Hearing The Words Of Jesus On The Cross In A New Way 

    This group will ponder whether the words Jesus speaks on the cross are even more powerful than we might have imagined, bearing witness not only to the life which Jesus embodied but also a life we ourselves can embody.  We will be exploring the possibility of preemptive forgiveness, an acceptance that exceeds even radical hospitality, and other invitations to transformation and new life.  Please consider joining us, or, if there are other groups more appealing to you, come and join those groups.  A full list of these Lenten Study Groups is provided in the bulletin.    

All of these groups will be meeting at Union Avenue. 

FEBRUARY - Buildings and Grounds

MARCH – Community Partnership

APRIL – Membership Care

MAY – Worship and Music

JUNE – Church Council

Please remember your assigned times or check the Pilgrim Church calendar.

Our Wednesday Community Soup Kitchen had a very busy December as we completed the 29^th year of ministry, which began in 1982.  Our 30^th year has begun.

We would like to share with you some of the activities of December.  Besides serving a delicious meal prepared by our creative volunteers, Jill Schantz took photos of our guests, developed them instantly and there were Christmas cards to send or give their picture to a special person. 

Donated knitted caps and scarves brightened the day. 

Lotion and socks are needed items and were welcomed. Shelby Counts provided clothes to be given to our neighbors.

A Christmas dinner was enjoyed by all (as well as the Thanksgiving dinner.)  We appreciated donations from other supporters and Gatesworth. 

Extra calendars for 2012 went very quickly.  Even flu shots were welcomed by our neighbors.  Blankets were distributed on December 21^st.  There were so many volunteers in this ministry, both Pilgrims and other churches.

Southminister Presbyterian continues their loyal support each month.  Parkway UCC is now furnishing the desserts on the second Wednesday of each month.  We thank them both for their continued support.

We welcome you to come and see the ministry in action.  We appreciate your support of Pilgrim’s ministry of working with our neighbors in need. 

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REDTAILS MOVIE CURRENTLY SHOWING       True story of the Tuskegee Airman (black pilots in WWII who endured racism and provided heroic support for white pilots) showing in various theaters.

Griot Museum of  Black History & Culture-241-7057 thegriotmuseum.com

Only the second of its kind the country, The Griot Museum of Black History & Culture opened as The Black World History Wax Museum in February 1997. After 10 years of being variously known, we hit upon what seems to be the perfect name “The Griot Museum of Black History & Culture” (The Griot”). Our new name more accurately reflects our mission and purpose—the keeper of the stories, culture, and history of Black people.

Museum Hours Wednesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Admission Adults: $7.50  Children under 12: $3.75

Missouri Botanical Garden—577-5100—mobot.org for more info

23rd Annual ‘Celebrate the Gospel’ Concert Set for Sunday, February 12 at 3 p.m. Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd.,

COST: $8 adults; $4 St. Louis City/County residents. Free children ages 12 & under

Enjoy the sweet harmonies of heart-felt gospel music at the Garden in celebration of Black History Month & is included with Garden admission.

The St. Alphonsus Liguori “ROCK” Catholic Church choir will perform traditional & modern renditions of inspirational gospel music. The concert will be held inside the Garden’s Shoenberg Theater. Seating is limited and available first-come, first-served.

Powell Symphony Hall  534-1700     stlsymphony.org

Friday, February 10, 2012, 7:00 PM Powell Hall

LIFT EVERY VOICE: BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION

Kevin McBeth, conductor in celebration of Black History Month, the STL Symphony welcomes Webster University alum and Hollywood diva Jenifer Lewis to Powell Hall. Star of The Preacher’s Wife, Disney’s The Princes and the Frog and Broadway’s Hairspray, Ms. Lewis will join the St. Louis Symphony IN UNISON® Chorus to celebrate the rich experience of African and African-American culture that has shaped the lives of people around the world.

Black Rep 534-3810  theblackrep.org      Grandel Square

St. Louis-style disco/funk version of the Bard’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” begins February 15 till the end of the month.

Repertory Theatre of St. Louis    968-4925      repstl.org    

David Mamet’s play, “Race,” opens February 8 with courtroom drama posing questions about black and white issues in America.

Black History Month at Jefferson National Expansion Memorial            655-1700 (voice) nps.gov/jeff/index.htm

During the month of February 2012, the park will be showing Black history films at the Old Courthouse and will do a Sunday reading program geared especially for children and their families.                                                                                                           Feb. 5-11              Never Lose Sight of Freedom (Voting Rights Movement)           Feb. 12-18            Sweet Auburn (MLK National Historic Site)

ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARIES—CITY BRANCHES

Authors @ Your Library Presents: Jamala Rogers      

Feb 7 @ 6:00PM – 7:30PM (Carpenter—3309 S Grand @ 772-6586) Jamala Rogers discusses her book “The Best of The Way I See It.”

Our Eyes Are Watching Zora    (Machacek—6424 Scanlan @781-2948)

Feb 6 @ 10:00AM – 11:30AM          Featured documentary: “Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun” (2008). This documentary gives us insights from leading scholars and rare footage of the rural South (some of it shot by Zora herself) with re-enactments of a revealing 1943 radio interview. Hurston biographer, Cheryl Wall, traces Zora’s unique artistic vision back to her childhood in Eatonville, Florida, the first all-black incorporated town in the U.S. There Zora was surrounded by proud, self-sufficient, self-governing black people, deeply immersed in African folk traditions.

Monday Series—Black History Month Films and Discussion: Black Women in American Culture and History         (Schlafly)

Feb 6 @ 6:00PM – 8:00PM   Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues (1989). Film shows how the blues were born out of the economic & social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives & times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters & other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture. The film brings together for the first time dozens of rare, classic renditions of the early blues. Discussion & refreshments.

Feb 13 @ 6:00PM – 8:00PM             Quilt makers of Gees Bend (2004). This acclaimed PBS film documents a group of African-American artists from Gee’s Bend, AL. The artists, primarily women, are descended from slaves & still inhabit the land their forefathers once worked. The film explores the extraordinary lives, inspirations, & history of the quilt makers, including their discovery by art historian Bill Arnett, and follows them on a poignant journey to see their work exhibited in a major art museum.

The second feature is For My People: The Life and Writing of Margaret Walker (1998, 28 minutes). This film gives long-overdue recognition to one of the seminal figures of American literature. Margaret Walker has been described by poet Nikki Giovanni as the “most famous person nobody knows.” Her signature poem, For My People, written when she was 22, set a tone & a level of commitment which African American literature has been responding to ever since.

Tuesday Series —Black History Month Film Series      (Julia Davis)

Feb 7 @ 6:00PM – 8:00PM               In celebration of Black History Month 2012, the Julia Davis Branch presents a Tuesday evening film series. Tonight’s feature is Standing on My Sister’s Shoulders. This documentary tells the story of three Mississippi women in 1965, who walked into the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington D.C. to seek their civil rights.

Film @ (Cabanne—1106 Union Ave @367-0717)

Feb 8 @                1:30PM – 2:30PM                Today’s feature is At The River I Stand (1993). This documentary examines the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Missouri History Museum       746-4599     mohistory.org   civilwarmo.org CIVIL WAR IN MISSOURI EXHIBIT    November 12, 2011 – March 16, 2013

Cost: Adult: $10; Senior/Student/Military/Tour Groups: $8; Children 6-12: $6; Children 5 and younger: Free;   City & County Residents FREE with ID on Tues. 2 – 8 pm.

Missouri may best reflect the Civil War’s rending of our nation. Prior to the Civil War, the state was bitterly divided between pro-slavery secessionists and those determined to preserve the Union. The Missouri Compromise, the Dred Scott Case and the Missouri-Kansas border conflicts exposed the simmering tensions. Claimed by both the Union and the Confederacy, two state governments grappled for control of Missouri. Today, Missouri and its role in the Civil War continue to generate controversy among historians, academics and Civil War enthusiasts. To commemorate the Civil War sesquicentennial–and to explore the complexities of the Civil War in the twenty-fourth state–the Missouri History Museum’s comprehensive exhibit, The Civil War in Missouri, will feature compelling artifacts, imagery and interactive elements. Although the exhibition addresses issues with which our entire nation wrestled, topics that are distinctively Missourian will take center stage.

Kirkwood Roots Exhibition       Saturdays in February 1:00pm

Join us for facilitated discussions in which all participants are invited to reflect on what they’ve learned after visiting the Museum’s Kirkwood Roots exhibit. Space is limited.

The Black Rep’s Resurrection 150 Saturdays February & March 2:00pm

Presented by the Black Rep, this short play by Linda Kennedy illustrates the African American experience of the Civil war through songs of the Colored Regiment, stories, and poetry.

I Shall Not Desert My Post: Elijah Lovejoy, Abolitionist Martyr

Tuesdays, February 7-28    3:00pm  Known to many as the first martyr to the anti-slavery movement, Elijah Parish Lovejoy lived and worked in St. Louis fighting for the destruction of slavery.  Hear of his passion for the anti-slavery movement and the freedom of the press through his own words.

You can see more pictures of the morning on the Picasa site by clicking on the link on the right side of the page or by following this link.