Before I write to you concerning our future need for a new Children’s Ministry Director, I want to say a few things about our present Director, Karen Woolsey.  I have known and worked with Karen, almost non-stop, for the last 16 years.  That is as long as I have worked with anybody in my working experience.  I liked her in the beginning…

Ladies, we have a new day-time study coming at you this summer. Molly Rayner will be leading Margaret Feinberg’s “Taste and See.” The group will meet at Quest on Wednesday mornings from 9:30am-11:15am beginning June 19th thru July 24th. We will be providing childcare, so if that is something you need, please be sure to let us know so we have enough…

There’s something about spring that makes for the perfect opportunity to clean up around your property. After a long winter, there just seems to be some upkeep needed to keep things growing healthily and looking good. We’re having a Quest workday at the church on Saturday, May 18th to do just that. It will take a team of people willing to work…

This year, our youth group, Quest Students, is splitting up and sending middle schoolers to summer camp and doing something different with our high schoolers (more info on that to come). However, with this change, we are also able to include our elementary kids going into 4th and 5th grades. You read that right, any of our students GOING INTO 4th grade…

What a beautiful time of the year!  Spring is usually a fabulous time of transition from our exhaustion with the cold and stark days of winter to the dog days of summer.  I know that many of us actually like the cold and snow, while others of you love the sweaty, intensity of summer (did you catch my bias there?). Regardless, I…

Each and every year, Christians around the world celebrate Easter.  Along with Christmas, Easter is one of the two ‘biggies’ in the church, as it should be.  My concern, however, is this: does familiarity breed contempt, even with the ‘biggies’?  Have we come to the point where these celebrations have become “white noise,” something that is so familiar that we actually don’t…

Questioning “who owns Quest” in not a question we actually ask very often, at least not very often in a clear and concise way, but subtly I think we all wonder who is ‘large and in charge’??? Like many of us who own homes, the property that houses the Quest ‘family’ is still largely owned by the bank 🙂  And just to…

In the 21st century, we are seduced to turn the Christian life into an experience of fun and excitement, into health and wealth, into easy fixes and smooth sailing, or into self fulfillment and acquisition.  The problem comes when it turns out to be not much fun and is less than exciting.  We become disillusioned when health and wealth alludes us.  When…

In recent days, the news has been full of stories about well known, powerful and famous men making giant mistakes and creating enormous problems.  R. Kelly, Robert Kraft, Jussie Smollett, Matt Lauer… to name just a few.  What do each of these men have in common? The lure of the human heart to satisfy our needs in ways that actually create bigger…

If you want an opportunity to visit one of St. Louis’ hidden gems, please join the ladies of Quest at 10a on Saturday, April 6 for a tour of beautiful Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum.  Take in the wonder of a cemetery that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and noted for its contribution to cemetery design in the nineteenth…