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CHELSEA COMMUNITY CHURCH
independent * lay-led * non-denominational
for those of all faiths and of uncertain faith
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Sunday Worship Notes
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Worship Service, 12:00 p.m.
Daylight Saving Time
Speaker: Rt. Rev. Mother Lynn Walker
Sermon theme: Social Justice
Wayne Kammerer, Lay Leader
Jeff Cubeta, Music Director |
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Please join us for worship at Chelsea Community Church this Sunday, March 11, at 12:00 p.m., Daylight Saving Time, to hear Rt. Rev. Mother Lynn Walker speak, focusing on "Social Justice."
Rt. Rev. Mother Lynn Elizabeth Walker, Bishop, Atlantic Diocese, Orthodox Catholic Church of America, is a director of housing operations at Housing Works. Ordained in her denomination in 1988, she has served parishes in western New York, New Jersey, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Currently she is a nonstipendiary associate at Trinity Episcopal Church in Kearny, N.J. She holds an M.A. degree from St. Joseph's Seminary at Dunwoody in Yonkers and a D.Min. from the Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend, Ind.
Please join us for communion, if you choose, immediately following the service, and for coffee hour also following the service, in the rectory next door.
Added note: Membership Sunday is April 1, Palm Sunday. If you are not yet a member, consider joining. It makes no difference in what is expected of you, but is a sign of commitment which encourages all of us! Talk to any current member.
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The Book Group
is not meeting for a few weeks, but is open to suggestions for a book to read when we resume.
Visitors will again be
welcome then!
THIS SUNDAY:
People worldwide are being asked by a Christian congregation in Japan to pray for five minutes at 11:45 a.m. on March 11
to commemorate the anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami there on 3/11/11, encircling the globe in 24 hours, with prayer.
NEXT SUNDAY
March 18
Speaker
Harry Steenwerth
Roman Catholic
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Scripture Readings
New International Version (NIV)
1 Corinthians 1:22-25
22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
John 2:13-25
Jesus Clears the Temple Courts
13 When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the temple courts he found people selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. 15 So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. 16 To those who sold doves he said, "Get these out of here! Stop turning my Father's house into a market!" 17 His disciples remembered that it is written: "Zeal for your house will consume me."[a]
18 The Jews then responded to him, "What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?" 19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days."
20 They replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?" 21 But the temple he had spoken of was his body. 22 After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.
23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs he was performing and believed in his name.[b] 24 But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, for he knew all people. 25 He did not need any testimony about mankind, for he knew what was in each person.
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Our Mission Statement
An independent, non-denominational, lay-led Christian congregation, Chelsea Community Church is not a building but a people. We offer a supportive environment for people of all faiths and of uncertain faith:
TO ENABLE each individual to define personal religious beliefs,
TO WORSHIP in prayer, music, reading and interpretation of scripture with speakers from a variety of backgrounds,
TO NURTURE each other in spiritual growth, while respecting a diversity of beliefs,
TO SHARE with and support each other in the daily and extraordinary events of our lives,
TO HELP those in need both inside and outside our congregation.
WE WELCOME anyone to worship with us and become part of our extended Christian family.
For more information, please visit our website:
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November, Our  Anniversary!
Founded 1975Thank you to all our members and friends! |
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