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3:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall

Serenade to Summertime - 9:30 a.m. worship - 10:45 a.m. concert - 12:00 p.m. luncheon

Dinner at 5:00 p.m. - Movie at 5:30 p.m. - Please bring your own dinner

Living the Lessons will resume in the Fall on Mondays at 2:00 p.m. in Room A

The Book of the Month Ministry encourages us to grow through the joy of reading. Each month, a selected book offers opportunities for reflection, discussion, and fellowship as we explore meaningful themes, discover new perspectives, and connect with one another. Everyone is welcome to participate! Contact the church office at (623) 584-4602 for  more information.

The members of the Prayer Shawl Ministry at Desert Palms are so honored to share shawls and pocket squares with our members, family and friends. As each shawl is created the person making it offers prayers for the one to whom it will be given. When the shawls are distributed the person receiving the shawl knows that they have been wrapped in the love of God through prayers of Desert Palms members. In addition to shawls and pocket squares, this ministry supports local hospitals with baby caps and blankets. Our veterans who have served our country faithfully should never be forgotten and thus when possible veteran’s receive shawls while family members receive shawls in memory of Fallen Soldiers. Knitting shawls while offering blessings from our loving hearts is a calling that fully completes the circle of our love for family and friends of Desert Palms.

“Quilting Group” generally brings to mind the picture of ladies hand sewing quilts with small stitches in straight lines or curves, joining together a top layer, batting middle, and a bottom layer. For many, the small stitch, hand sewing aspect can be daunting. Our Quilting Group ladies do not use this method. We layer our quilts as stated above, but instead of the hand stitching, we simply use colored yarn to tie a square knot in each patchwork square, leaving short tails of the yarn before cutting it and going on to the next square. This method is easy, fast, and results in a charming finish to our quilts. It is this activity that keeps us busy on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month from 9:00 - 12:30 p.m. including a coffee/rest break at 10:30 a.m. We love the time when we can all be together working on our quilts for Mingus Mountain. Even though we have participants for hands-on, we can always use additional help with our tying of square knots and welcome visitors to join us. We invite anyone who would be interested to see our work, to stop in for a visit. Our quilting group meets on the first and third Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. We meet in Fellowship Hall all year. We take a break for snacks and fellowship.

We are an “arm” of the current Quilting Group, but we do something different in a different way! We look for sewers to help create small quilts for the children. We work on projects such as making a children’s quilt for each of the names on our Angel Tree for the Salvation Army at Christmas time. We have several other children projects as we find the need. Our group meets on the third Saturday of each month from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Fellowship Hall.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 11:00 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall