QC Studio-Z
QC Studio Z offers Zumba classes in the fellowship hall at church on Monday & Wednesday evenings from 5:45 to 6:45 pm. For more information visit their website www.qcstudioz.com
Grace Lutheran Church invites you!
Event: Saturday, Feb. 7, free morning retreat: The illusion of perfectionism: a journey toward wholeness
Contact: Connie Lannan, 309-945-5152
Struggle with perfectionism? This free retreat is for you
Society pushes us to continually excel, improve and be better. While these can be positive aspirations, they also can spiral into us thinking our worth is proven only through our capacity to do things and our ability to constantly better ourselves. Can we pause and find another way? Can we ever see ourselves as enough? Can we mute our inner critic?
All those questions and more will be explored when the Spiritual Growth Mission at Grace Lutheran Church, Davenport, presents “The illusion of perfectionism: a journey toward wholeness,” a free retreat featuring the Rev. Melinda Pupillo, campus chaplain and director of spiritual development at Augustana College, Rock Island, on Saturday, Feb. 7. The retreat, open to all in the greater Quad-City community, whether of the Christian faith or not, will take place from 9 a.m. to noon in the Pat Bell Hall at the church, 1140 E. High St. Refreshments will be served.
“I think there is a cultural expectation to strive, gain excellence and then continue striving, even to our own detriment in both our personal and professional lives,” says Pupillo, who sees these patterns in her own life.
“Much of my journey has been about struggling to be enough, consistently plagued by an inner perfectionist. For me, and many of my most talented peers, imposter syndrome is real. But it is my faith that has proven to be the best conversation partner to help shake me from these perfectionistic tendencies. Through my prayer and devotional life, I am able to pay better attention to who God has created me to be, and that I am enough — even better than enough,” she says.
This fixation with perfectionism has manifested itself in many ways, including how we experience the Divine. “We even want God to be perfect, and I don’t think that is helpful. Scripture might use the word perfect, but I believe perfection is a limited translation. God being perfect is about wholeness and fullness, being complete. This is hard for us to wrap our brains around, as God is much greater than what we can understand. In our discomfort with the unknowable, we make God to be this example of perfection, and therefore more understandable and predictable. Then we try to fit our own human striving into these same categories, too. Also, making God perfect and predictable puts the Divine in a box, limiting God’s capacity to fully show up,” she says, adding that it also limits our ability to see “that God looks at us with eyes of love and with this deep joy in how precious we are. What could it mean to look at ourselves in this way as we are going through the day?”
Those who attend this “uplifting, joyous and interactive morning session to reset, complete with time for learning as well as space for conversation, personal reflection and prayer, will gain some simple practices to see themselves as the amazing human beings they are. We will look at ways to gently nudge our own inner critic to silence and look at more ways of being more deeply integrated into the holy and seeing how we are lovely reflections of God’s holy presence in the world. We are not part of constantly falling short. We will see ourselves as part of the divine fabric,” she says.
Discover how to get off the perfectionist treadmill. Register today for this free retreat by calling the Grace Lutheran Church office at 563-322-0769 or completing the online form at www.gracewelcomesyou.org
Food Pantry & Clothing
Food Pantry & Clothing Closet Weekly Food Load
Every Friday volunteers are needed to help pick up the food order from River Bend Food Bank at 8:30 am (contact Anne). Volunteers are needed at church to help unload the vehicles that were loaded at River Bend Food Bank and to stock the shelves and other areas at 9:00 am at All Saints.
Food Pantry & Clothing Closet Donations – NEW HOURS
Donations are accepted on Fridays 9 – 11 am and Saturdays 9 – 10 am. Monetary donations may be mailed to the church office.
Saturdays – NEW HOURS
They are open to the public from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm on Saturdays. Several volunteers are needed during this time to help.
Worship
Please join us for worship on Sundays at 10 am in the sanctuary followed by fellowship time in the gathering space.
The worship service is livestreamed Facebook (www.facebook.com/allsaintsdavenport) and later uploaded to YouTube (www.youtube.com/@allsaintslutheranchurchdav1987) for your viewing.
Three23co – homeschool group
Three23co will be meeting once a week in the gathering space of the church. They use the space from 8 am to 12 pm every Tuesday for the 2025-2026 school year (September – March). Please be aware of their class time (8:30 – 11:30am) and do not disturb them. They will be utilizing the gathering space and perhaps the outside church lawn/lower parking lot for recess time if the weather permits.
Fit4Mom – Stroller Strides Class
Fit4Mom – Stroller Strides Class will meet every Tuesday in the fellowship hall between 5:30 – 6:30 pm. For more information about this group, visit their website: www.quadcities.fit4mom.com
West Music Company, Music Therapy – SoundReach Choir
Sound Reach, a vocal music-making opportunity for groups or individuals with cognitive and physical disabilities, will have a 6-week singalong on Zoom for SoundReach, running Mondays 6 – 6:30 pm from January 19 through February 23). Here is the registration information https://musictherapy.westmusic.com/soundreach-singalong/
They will rehearse on Tuesdays from 5:45 – 6:30 pm in the sanctuary at church for their spring session (03.03.2026 – 05.12.2025). For more information about this group, visit their website: https://musictherapy.westmusic.com/
Council Meeting
The monthly council meeting will be on Tuesday, February 17th at 6 pm in the church library.
Ash Wednesday Worship
There will be an Ash Wednesday Worship Service on Wednesday, February 18th at 7 pm in the sanctuary.