Saturday, July 17th
Contact Kathy R. for meeting place and other
arrangements
to get to Ronald McDonald House by 5 PM to begin cooking
at 4381 West Pine Blvd, STL, MO, 63108
Ronald McDonald House
"Nothin' Beats Home-Cookin'!"
...especially when family must be with hospitalized loved-ones.
On the third Saturday of each month, a crew from Ethical Society Mid Rivers cooks dinner at the West Pine
location of Ronald McDonald House in St. Louis. We have been doing this for more than three years, and
we have committed to continue through 2010.
Contact Kathy R. to participate in this worthwhile
project and/or if you have questions.
Mark your calendar for these coming Saturdays:
21 Aug, 18 Sep, 16 Oct, 20 Nov, & 18 Dec
Check out the NEW,
300th Ronald
McDonald House!
For more information about the Ronald McDonald House Charity, click
here.
Sunday, July 18th
University of Missouri Extension Center
260 Brown Road in Saint Peters.
(roadmap)
Sunday Lecture Series
"Religion, Sex, and Rock 'n' Roll"
Our speaker is Leader Bob Greenwell.
New thoughts on religion have occurred to me as I've prepared to teach my class on Eastern religions,
and I'd like to share these new perspectives with you. Humanity has separated itself, in a process lasting
thousands of years, from nature. This includes a separation of one's mind from one's own body, and this is
chronically stressful. It also includes a loss of understanding of the need for play in adult human
experience. Traditional religions sometimes offer ways to re-unite the whole self, but just as often make
the separation worse.
Sex is a reminder to us that reunion of self in a body experience is a great pleasure. Rock 'n' Roll,
by being such an earthy form of music, can also bring mind and body back together. (Dance can too.
Gardening can too in a subtler way.)
My reflections will touch on how religion came to justify the separation of mind from body through
devaluing play and through degrading the body while glorifying ‘transcendent’ concepts.
The general public is invited.
Questions? Comments? Contact Mr. Bob Greenwell by email.
Sunday, July 18th from 12:30 PM to ??
University of Missouri Extension Center
260 Brown Road in Saint Peters.
(roadmap)
ESMR Board of Directors Meeting
Please submit reports and
additions to the agenda well in advance.
Board members, please notify if you will not be attending.
For members of the Board of Directors.
Other ESMR members are welcome to attend as observers
Sunday, July 25th
University of Missouri Extension Center
260 Brown Road in Saint Peters.
(roadmap)
Sunday Lecture Series
"Lionel and Me: Partners in Crime"
Ethical Society Mid Rivers member John Herzberg will discuss his experience meeting,
training, and living with his beautiful, sweet Golden Lab guide dog, Lionel. John will show a
brief video that explain the Guide Dogs for the Blind placement and training program, and then he will
take questions from the audience.
The general public is invited.
Questions? Comments? Contact Mr. Bob Greenwell by email.
Wednesday, July 28th from 7 PM to 9 PM
Hosts: Patti & Rob M.
Living Ethics Discussion
the topic is:
to be announced...
Invitation open to members of the Society and their guests.
If you wish, you may RSVP Mr. Bob Greenwell by email.
Sunday, July 25th from noontime 'til about 1:00 PM
University of Missouri Extension Center
260 Brown Road in Saint Peters.
(roadmap)
Potluck Dinner
It's Potluck Sunday! After the lecture, please join us for lunch.
First-time visitors are invited to attend and bring no food item for the table. Others:
bring a dish, any dish, from soup to salad to sandwich to entrée to side dish to dessert.
The oven is available to keep things warm, and a large 'fridge to keep things cool, and there are lots
of outlets for crockpots, etc.; and the microwave is available right after the lecture ends. (Please
avoid any item that requires your attention from 11 to noon, since any sound in the kitchen is amplified into
the room where our 11:00 a.m. program is in progress.)
Even if you don't bring a dish or beverage, at least bring your appetite! See you then!
The general public is invited.
Friday, August 6th, from 7 PM to ?? PM
Hosts: to be announced
KnitWits
Par-Tay !!!
As always, lively conversation obliterates the sound of clicking knitting needles!
And nearby, there's a boisterous game or two, stimulating and challenging your brain-stuff.
Bring appetizer or snack or dessert, and something to drink, and maybe a game to play, and enjoy a cool
festive "Summery"
evening with Society friends.
Invitation open to members of the Society and their guests.
If you wish, you may RSVP Mr. Bob Greenwell by email.
Sunday, August 8th from 10:00 AM 'til 10:30 AM
University of Missouri Extension Center
260 Brown Road in Saint Peters.
(roadmap)
Delicious Pancake & Sausage Breakfast
"A Fun-Raiser Extraordinaire"
This Sunday we will be having another yummy all-you-can-eat pancake & sausage
breakfast. Volunteers who are helping to cook need to be at the Brown Road building at 9:00. We
will serve at 10:00 and stop serving at 10:30 so we can get ready for the Platform Presentation at 11:00.
$5 for adults, $1 for kids under 12.
Thanks so much for supporting our last breakfast, and we look forward to seeing you at this one!
The general public is invited.
Tuesday, July 20th from 7 PM to about 9 PM
McClay Branch of St. Charles Co. Library
2760 McClay Road phone: (636) 441-7577
Saint Charles, MO
PFLAG
A support group for anyone who has a gay family member or friend
and would like to meet others in the same situation.
Please plan to attend!
Regularly meets the third Tuesday of every month.
The general public is invited
Phone (636) 928-5639 and/or email StCharlesPFLAG@aol.com
All events are at 260 Brown
Road unless otherwise indicated. It's the U. of MO Extension
Center building in St. Peters, north of Interstate 70. Click
here for directions.
For more information, please email
or call Bob Greenwell, Leader, (636) 284-0280. You will
not be added to any mail list unless you specifically request
it. We very much appreciate your inquiry. - Bob G.
WORTH PROGRAM AND LECTURE
Every Sunday, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
We start with Worth Program,
a unique 15-20-minute program using music, image, story, poetry,
and inspirational reflections to bring into the present moment
an experience of the inextinguishable worth of self, worth of
one another, and worth of being. This is the basis for living
an ethical life with courage, enthusiasm, and joy.
Then parents escort their children to the SEEK room for their
Sunday ethics lesson 11:20-12:15 pm.
Adults stay for the ETHICAL LECTURE. This will be an address
by Leader Bob Greenwell or a guest speaker addressing issues of
personal ethics, social ethics, living life well, political concerns,
the world in context, or humanist-religious-spiritual perspectives.
The current lecture topic is given near the top of this page.
Occasionally an alternate format is creatively used, such as a
program of music or poetry with commentary.
Come early to enjoy coffee, meet folks, browse the literature
table. Stay after for more socializing. Visit and
check it out!
TWAIN RIVERS BOOK CLUB
Better than TV: A book. Better than a book alone: A book
amplified with friends in discussion. Join these once-a-month
meetings with Bill Fasick, on the last Monday of each month, at
7 pm. Participants choose each upcoming month's book title
and meeting place somewhere in St. Charles county...a restaurant,
library, coffee house, etc. For information, email
or call (636) 284-0280
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