Be Loved, Beloved, Be Love
Focus: “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu
Earth Day Service
Focus: “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”
Laity Sunday
Focus: Sue Maccalous, Poem by Mary Oliver Threshold Moment: Heather Davis, “Acknowledging and Honoring our own Sensitive Selves”.
Easter Service
L: Out of the earth Rises light, Rises life, Rises spring. All: May we join with the iracle that is springtime and enter into life with lightness and joy.
Maundy Thursday
L: Come and remember the love of Jesus, gathered at table with his friends. All: We come to receive from Christ the bread of life, the cup of blessing;
Restoration – Fifth Sunday in Lent
Focus: Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. – John Muir Threshold Moment: A Time for Centering Welcome: The demands of following Jesus are great. He shows us that sometimes we must make extraordinary efforts to move in a […]
Creativity and Healing – Fourth Sunday in Lent
Focus: A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupery Threshold Moment: (Video) Welcome: Prolonged times of difficulty can impede our ability to stay creative. The picture of our lives is dulled and hope for a brighter future can fade. We need […]
Stories – Third Sunday in Lent
Focus: “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou Threshold Moment: Centering Time (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFjNxztJFKg&feature=emb_logo) Welcome: Gathering Music: Healing Hands (by Cheryl Sager) — Cheryl Sager & Neal Zweig Opening Prayer of Confession: Let us acknowledge our need to restore, repair, and renew ourselves in body, mind and […]
“Safe Keeping” – Second Sunday in Lent
Focus: “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.”
– Coretta Scott King
“Treasure” – First Sunday in Lent
Focus: It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. —Joseph Campbell