EFM Class

Time: Monday Evenings, from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.
Place: Vestry Office
Mentor: Laurel Mosteller

A new Education for Ministry (EFM) group is forming at St. Peter’s in September 2009. EFM is a four-year program of study and reflection for adults who want to take a serious look at their faith and their ministry as Christians. The curriculum was devised by Sewanee University of the South and is used by groups all over the world. EFM studies include Hebrew Scriptures, Christian Scriptures, history of Christianity, philosophers and theologians. In addition to the study, the group takes time to look at their own life stories and the meaning of their lives in the Christian context.

EFM groups meet weekly with mentors (not teachers) from September through May. They share laughter, questions, dreams, and occasionally tears as they work on the big issues of life and faith. No question is too basic, no opinion is too outrageous, and no student of EFM comes away unchanged. Scholarship help is available if needed. If you are interested, please contact Laurel Mosteller as soon as possible.

"Reflections in October: On Creation"

Time: Wednesday Evenings in October, from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Place: Rector's Office
Leader: Rick Pearce

I think it helps to remind ourselves that we are all one family: plants, animals, sun, moon, death and reconciliation. If all aspects of creation are our brothers and sisters, we should be aware to strengthen our family ties, to love or at least reconcile with our unlovable and estranged relatives of the Cosmos.

For four weekday evenings this fall a group, lead by Rick Pearce, will meet to consider God’s creation and our part in it, using reflections and liturgy developed in England and following St. Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures. Each week we will look at several themes (for example: sun, water, forgiveness and even death). After the reflections and short discussion we will end the night with Compline.

No reading is required (don’t you already have enough to do?) We will meet in the Rector’s office from 7:30 to 9:00 each Tuesday in October (October 6, 13, 20, 27). Attend for one night or all. Please come and let us rejoice together in our God given family of all creation.

Please let Rick Pearce or Dianne Barnes know if you are interested. Call the church office at 215-887-1765.


St. Peter's Church is located at 654 N. Easton Road, Glenside, (just north of Jenkintown Road). The church is wheelchair accessible.