St. John's Episcopal Church - Tower Grove
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  • St. John's Episcopal Church
  • Welcome!
    • New Here?
    • Get in Touch
    • Map and Directions
    • St. John's History
    • Clergy, Staff, Vestry
    • Links
  • Worship
    • Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals
    • Choir
    • Acolytes, Chalice Bearers and Lectors
    • Altar Guild
    • Greeters and Ushers
  • Serving Our Neighbors
    • Peace Meal
    • Winter Outreach
    • Episcopal City Mission
    • Isaiah 58 Ministries
    • Tower Grove Pride Festival
  • Education
    • Children and Youth Christian Education
    • Adult Christian Education
  • St. John's as a Community
    • Coffee Hour
    • Young Adult Group
    • Book Group
    • Pastoral Care
  • Calendar
  • Blog
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Sabbath Lab - Experience the fullness of Sabbath from an Jewish perspective Two Sessions - Feb 11 and 18 at 7:15 pm on Zoom
Lab - and Follow up & Debrief April 8, 7:15 pm

Session 1:
WHAT'S A Shabbat? (an "inside look" at Jewish notions of the sabbath.)
How I learned to stop worrying and love the sabbath.
Personal intro & sabbath journey 
In conversation with Rebecca.
  Questions from the chat encouraged.
Study and discuss a text about Sabbath in pairs. 
   Brief text with semi-structured
Return & Discuss thoughts in "large group"
SESSION 2:
HOW Can I Shabbat? (defining, committing to, and learning from a practice) (February 18, 7:15)
Study traditional Jewish definitions / categories of "work."
The concepts of mitzvot ahseh (positive commandments) and mitzvot lo ta'aseh (negative commandments) as well as a sampling of Shabbat-related practices connected with each.
Introduce "Sabbath Lab" concept and concept of "lab partners". Send participants to teams so that each can complete a "pre-lab" where each articulates and commits to a particular practice and write a hypothesis about the spiritual / emotional effects that they imagine this practice will have on them or on their families.  
If appropriate: "Lab partners" share email / phone contact info with each other to check in with each other at the end of the sabbath for 10 minutes each week for the next 4 weeks and reflect on what they learned from their practice. 
"Large group" participants share their practices and hypotheses with the whole community.

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St. John's Episcopal Church
3664 Arsenal St.
St. Louis, MO 63116

(314) 772-3970

Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m.

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