Adult Education

Sundays at 9:15 AM, in the Wesley Room. Dates are October 4
to November 29, 2026.

SMALL GROUP STUDY

ILIA DELIO COMPASSION
Living in the Spirit of St. Francis

Sunday, October 4, we begin an eleven-week study on Ilia Delio’s Compassion: Living in the Spirit of St. Francis, which I have referenced several times over the summer. It’s a book I keep returning to in my life to learn compassion’s lessons again. From the Introduction: “The key to Francis’s transformation into love, his secret of making wholes out of the scattered fragments of life, was compassion. He learned compassion as the art of healing broken hearts by collecting the tears of the forgotten, the frightened, and the lonely in his hands and holding the wounded as his kin. Francis entered the world of the stranger and made the stranger into a brother. He learned to love what was weak and fragile, and he learned to care for what the world discarded.” Come and take this journey with me. The book can be purchased online fairly easily. 

If you would like more information, please email the Church Office at pentwaterumc@gmail.com

Pastor Vaughn