thanksgiving experience 09

michellemcox    says:

The Thanksgiving Experience is a “drop in” event, open from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. Nov. 21 at The Crossing in Chesterfield, 114. N. Eatherton Road, Chesterfield, MO 63005. The experience will be divided into multiple family-friendly interactive stations, as well as a gratitude-themed art show (see below).

The stations will focus on the four tenets of a world-wide movement called Advent Conspiracy (see below) – Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More, Love All – and will give visitors real-world, practical and executable ideas for accomplishing each of these goals during this holiday season.

The stations include:

•Advent Conspiracy Coupon Station -- offering coupons to write gifts of service and time to give to family and friends at Christmas.
•Sample Gifts and Coupons – offering ideas for gift baskets, bags and coupon combinations to for spending less, yet giving more thoughtful, personal gifts.
•The thanksGIVING Tree – offering a list of places to give back to our local community during the Advent season. There will be lists where families can do something together, lists for children, and lists to do with friends or individually.
•Prayer and Journaling – offering quiet time to journal or to write prayer requests that others may pray for. Addition, prayer team member will be available for one-on-one prayer as needed.
•Read and Rest – offering another quiet spot to spend some time reading about Advent Conspiracy, or part of a message on serving by Martin Luther King, Jr. The younger visitors can read the true story of St. Nicholas.
•Water Walk – offering a chance for visitors to physically experience how those in third world countries – even small children -- walk long distances to bring water back to their home.
•Forgiven, a Place to Let Go – offering small pieces of wood upon which visitors can write something for which they need to be forgiven or need to let go. Then they can drop the wood into the fire and watch it burn away.
•With Healing in His Wings – offering a place to recall the story where Jesus healed the woman who touched His garment and a chance to ask God for healing of a medical issue, relationship, addiction or some other affliction.
•Communion Experience – offering a 4-station experience where visitors can delve a little deeper into what communion really is.
•Worship Fully – offering an opportunity to follow the example of the Wise men and leave a gift of personal commitment at the manger.
•Appreciation – offering the chance to write letters to those who serve our communities everyday: police officers and fire fighters.


About Advent Conspiracy
Advent Conspiracy is a movement that encourages people to return to the holistic worship of Jesus during Christmas by pushing back on over-consumerism, giving more relationally, and supporting those who really need help. It started four years ago right here in St. Louis and is now a worldwide movement that has raised millions of dollars for charity by thousands of churches and business leaders in more than 17 countries.

About the Art Exhibit
The All Things Grateful art exhibit includes art from artists around the region, as well as art from prisoners in the federal corrections system. It is an outreach effort to empower and encourage artists who are currently incarcerated to explore ways they can live productively post-incarceration.

About The Crossing
The Crossing (also known as Windsor Crossing Community Church) is a fast-growing community of Christ followers known for calling those form an unlikely mix of spiritual backgrounds to consider the way of Jesus. By using unconventional teaching methods and various art mediums and technology, The Crossing (now with campuses in Chesterfield and Fenton) creates experiences rooted in scripture that are both culturally relevant and deeply personal. The Crossing is constantly mining new ways that encourage people to explore, experience and express who God is and how His teaching can foster real change in people’s lives.
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