Little Home Church by the Wayside
CONTEMPLATIVE SERVICES
‘When is the last time you gave yourself a chance to be quiet, calm, and still? A time to just “be” and to let the thoughts and busyness of life cease for a while and reconnect with your spiritual inner self?
We gather as a contemplative community to meditate, to pray if you wish, to simply be in the moment with other gentle and quiet souls.
We offer one service at 8 am and the same service repeated at 7 pm in the sanctuary of The Little Home Church by the Wayside.
Each service will be 30 minutes in length with readings, meditation, and music.
We generally offer two services a month, each one having a different focus.
To accommodate people’s schedules, we offer an 8 am service with the same service repeating later that day at 7 pm. Each service lasts 30 minutes, with readings, meditation, and music. The focus or theme changes each week.
Please join us. We encourage you to share this information with others who might be interested in this service.
‘To Find Myself’
The mind that is the prisoner of conventional ideas, and the will that is the captive of its own desire—I must learn therefore to let go of the familiar and the usual and consent to what is new and unknown to me. I must learn to ‘leave myself’ in order to find myself by yielding to the love of God.
Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
A BOOK & A PRAYER BOOK CLUB
‘Now it's 15th year, our book club meets via Zoom on the second Thursday of each month at 7 pm.
The titles chosen are recent bestsellers that correspond to special days commemorated each month (Holocaust Remembrance Day, Black History Month, Disability Awareness, etc.).
Library copies of the books are provided by the St. Charles Public Library a month in advance and are available for pickup at the church.
Our discussions are always thought-provoking and lively, and we are always happy to have new friends join us!
SISTERS IN SPIRIT - SiS
Sisters in Spirit – SiS – is the women’s group at LHC. SiS members meet on the second Saturday of the month, beginning at 9 am. Our meetings focus on service projects and annual events.
An ongoing SiS project is the creation of knitted or crocheted prayer shawls, scarves, blankets, and hats. Completed shawls, etc., are blessed during a worship service and given to congregation members, families, and friends who are enduring a severe illness, terminal diagnosis, or simply in need of comfort.
SiS also supports the larger outreach projects at LHC as the need arises.
SiS holds two annual fundraisers: a spring plant sale and a holiday bazaar called Symbols of the Season. The plant sale – early May – includes annual blooming plants, vegetables, and herbs, along with locally grown perennials dug from members’ gardens. Symbols of the Season features Thanksgiving and Christmas-themed handmade items, along with an assortment of edible items made by SiS members. Both events are open to the public.
At different times throughout the year, SiS members provide fellowship after the weekly worship service and also provide and serve the evening meal at the Soup Kettle in Elgin.
All LHC women are invited and welcome to join SiS.
