For the next six weeks (Lent), Learn & Grow will do the Lenten study by Amy-Jill Levine called “Entering The Passion of Jesus”.  We will look at the events in Jesus life during Holy Week.  Each week we will study the history of an event, consider the risks Jesus took, and think about the risks we need to take in our own lives.

March 1: Jerusalem: Risking Reputation

March 8: The Temple: Risking Righteous Anger

March 15: Teachings: Risking Challenge

March 22: The First Dinner: Risking Rejection

March 29: The Last Supper: Risking the Loss of Friends

April 5: Gethsemane: Risking Temptation

Our next Project CURE Volunteer Group is scheduled for Sat. March 7th from 9:30 am – 12 pm (2300 Clifton Ave, 37209). We will be sorting medical supplies to be sent to hospitals in developing countries. Everyone is welcome, including newcomers! See you there!

The first Sunday of every month is COW Sunday (Contribute Our Wealth). Everyone is encouraged to bring non-perishable food for Second Harvest. All money donations are split between Second Harvest and Heifer International. Brookmeade doing its part to alleviate hunger!

Leap Year only comes along every once and a while (every 4 years to be specific), so let’s celebrate! Fri. Feb. 28^th from 5 to 7 pm. Bring a favorite game and a favorite snack or drink to go with pizza, salad, and drinks provided. Naturalist John Muir put it this way: “Surely all God’s people…like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small, mischievous microbes–all are warm with divine radium and most have lots of fun in them.” Let’s have some fun for Leap Year and maybe we’ll do it again four years after that.

In Learn & Grow in February we will study the book “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson. As we prepare to hear a sermon in March from an advocate against the death penalty, we hope to learn more about this issue.

Book Description from the Just Mercy website:

“Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit law office in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated to defending the poor, the incarcerated, and the wrongly condemned. Just Mercy tells the story of EJI, from the early days with a small staff facing the nation’s highest death sentencing and execution rates, through a successful campaign to challenge the cruel practice of sentencing children to die in prison, to revolutionary projects designed to confront Americans with our history of racial injustice. One of EJI’s first clients was Walter McMillian, a young black man who was sentenced to die for the murder of a young white woman that he didn’t commit. The case exemplifies how the death penalty in America is a direct descendant of lynching — a system that treats the rich and guilty better than the poor and innocent.”

To find out more VISIT THE WEBSITE

Our next Project CURE Volunteer Group is scheduled for Sat. February 1st from 9:30 am – 12 pm (2300 Clifton Ave, 37209). We will be sorting medical supplies to be sent to hospitals in developing countries. Everyone is welcome, including newcomers! See you there!

We are going to get together to practice yoga at Brookmeade. No experience necessary. We will be guided by “Yoga with Adriene” videos from YouTube. Bring a yoga mat or use the floor or borrow one from someone else (let us know if you need one). The first Monday of each month will be a Chair Yoga class. Call the church office with any questions. Otherwise, see you Mondays at 5pm in the Fellowship Room at Brookmeade!

Join us for the MLK Day March, Monday, January 20th. Brookmeaders will park and meet at the Jefferson Street Baptist Church at 8:30 am. The March to TSU Campus starts at 10 am. See you there!