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SOUL PRINT
Radical Uniqueness
During the month of APRIL Reverend
Glenda and Reverend Judy will help us explore ways to experience wholeness and renewal, to hear and respond to the particular call of spirit in our lives, and to realign with our divine mission.
Drawing upon various spiritual traditions, they will take us on a journey toward realization and joy. They will introduce tools to help us naturally express the full promise of our 'radical uniqueness'.
Marc Gafni, Kabbalist and cutting edge spiritual teacher, says: "There is a frequency of divine light that is refracted through the prism of your uniqueness. It is a song only you can sing, the singular instrument of your destiny."
This month we will work together to break free of limitations and negativity, to integrate the personal blockages that prevent us from achieving true freedom in all areas of life, and to open to our partnership with divinity.
Please join us at Common Ground every Sunday for either the 9 am or 10:30 am inspirational service.
Resources
include:Sermon on the Mount, by Emmet Fox
The Soul of Money, by Lynne TwistThe Next Ten Minutes, by Andrew Peterson
These
titles are available in the Book Boutique. (Quantities Limited)
Sunday Morning Inspiration Services
Weekly: 9:00 to
10:00 am and 10:30 to 11:30
am
Kids' Enrichment Program at
10:30 am
Talk
titles for April:
April 3: Certainty in Uncertain Times, Chagai Shouster, Kabbalah University, guest speaker
Harold Payne, guest vocalist
April 10: Dancing Through the Shadow
April 17: Walking in the Wide Places
Earth Day Celebration
Gino Walker, guest vocalist
Palm Sunday
April 24: Seeing Through God's Eyes
Easter Sunday
Watch Recent Talks On Video
Robert Fields: Appearing at
Both Services Every
Sunday in
April.
Thank You for Your Generosity! Common
Ground is solely supported by the gracious
offerings of its spiritual community and
friends.
2010/2011 Newsletter Archives
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APRIL CLASSES & EVENTS
Sunday Morning Inspiration Services 9:00 to 10:00 am & 10:30 to 11:30 am
APRIL SPECIAL EVENTS
KABBALAH WITH CHAGAI SHOUSTER: Certainty in Uncertain Times ~ Sunday, April 3, 9 and 10:30 am inspirational services
HAROLD PAYNE, GUEST VOCALIST ~ Sunday, April 3, 9 and 10:30 am inspirational services
ANNUAL SPRING YARD SALE ~ Saturday, April 16, 7 am to noon
EARTHDAY CELEBRATION ~ Sunday, April 17, 9 and 10:30 am inspirational services
GINO WALKER, GUEST VOCALIST ~ Sunday, April 17, 9 and 10:30 am inspirational services
EASTER CELEBRATION ~ Sunday, April 24, 9 and 10:30 am inspirational servicesAWAKENING THE DREAMER, CHANGING THE DREAM SYMPOSIUM ~ Saturday, April 30, 12 noon to 4:30 pm ~ $20 suggested
NEW
Movie Night: What on Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery ~ Thursday, April 21, 7 to 8:30 pm ~ $10 Suggested
KID'S CALENDAR
Kids' Enrichment Program ~ Weekly, Sundays, 10:30 to 11:30 am
OUTREACH
Get on the Bus Planning Session, facilitated by Nancy Berg & Judith Freyer ~ Sunday, April 3, 11:30 am
Standing In Peace, facilitated by Carol Marshall, Irvine Blvd @ Prospect Ave ~ Tuesdays, 4 to 5 pm
Knitting for Good, facilitated by Jeanne Czuba & Friends ~ Saturday, April 9, 1 to 4 pm
FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT
OCICE General Meeting ~ Thursday, April 7, 6:45 pm ~ Aldersgate Methodist Church
RECYCLE SUNDAY ~ Sunday, April 17
E-Waste Recycling Drive ~ Sunday, April 17 through Saturday, April 30
Local Farmers Markets
Local Environmental Projects
~ Zero Trash Laguna Cleanup
ROOTS, Restoration and Native Vegetation Program: Upper Newport Bay
Save Our Beach Program
ONGOING
Eckhart Tolle Book Study ~ New Earth ~ Fridays, Weekly,12:30 to 1:30 pm ~ Love Offering
Healing Grief Circle: Life Transitions ~ Wednesday, April 20, 7 to 8:30 pm ~ $10 suggested
IONS Discussion Group Exploring Science & Spirituality ~Wednesday, April 27, 7 to 8:30 pm ~ $10 suggested
Presence Process ~ Tuesdays, April 12 & 26, 7 to 8:30 pm (Closed)
Processing Emotions Group ~ Wednesday, April 13 , 7 to 8:30 pm ~ $5 Suggested
Reiki Healing Circle ~ Tuesday, April 12 & 26, 7 to 8:30 pm ~ Love Offering
Way of the Bodhisattva: Training in the Six Perfections ~ Wednesday, April 6, 7 to 8:30 pm (Closed)
Women's Wisdom Circle ~ Tuesdays, April 12 & 26, 10 to 11:30 am ~ Love Offering
VENUE EVENTS
Financial Services ~ How Money Works, with Brennan Jones & Patricia Milan ~ Wednesday, April 6, 7 to 8 pm ~ Free
Orange County Spiritualist Gathering, with Medium Kathleen Vance ~ 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of the month, 7 to 8:30 pm ~ $10 suggested donation
Development 1: Developing your spiritual path & intuition, with Bob Lewis ~ Saturday, April 9, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm ~ $20 per person
Development 2: Advanced students in spiritual and psychic awareness, with Bob Lewis ~ Saturday, April 23, 9:30 am to 12:30 pm ~ $20 per person
LightLovers Studio, Readings & Energy Balancing ~ Saturday, April 9 , 2 to 4 pm ~ $20 per session
Own Your Divinity, facilitated by Suzanne Banken ~ Thursdays, Weekly, 7 pm ~ $30 per person
Intenders' Circle & Conscious Enterprise, facilitated by Judith Freyer & team ~ Thursday, April 14 & 28, 7 to 8:30 pm ~ $5 suggested
Be sure to look for updates and details of activities in weekly email notices.
Ongoing weekly classes continue as scheduled. Check our At-a-Glance Calendar for information.
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MICROFINANCE
Helping Create Opportunity Around the World
As part of its tithing practice, Common Ground has an ongoing relationship with Kiva, a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people around the globe through lending to alleviate poverty.
Leveraging the internet and a worldwide network of microfinance institutions on five continents, Kiva helps to provide loans to people without access to traditional banking systems.
Kiva is primarily funded through the support of lenders such as Common Ground. 100% of every dollar we lend goes directly towards funding loans.
Providing safe, affordable access to capital to those in need helps people create better lives. Even in the most remote areas of the globe, people hold the power to create opportunity for themselves, their families and their communities.
Entrepreneurs repay their loans and Kiva credits the appropriate lenders with the loan repayments. Lenders can elect to re-lend their funds to another entrepreneur. Common Ground automatically re-lends funds.
More information on How It Works.
Currently, Common Ground is lending to the following two entrepreneurs.
Munkhzaya Badarch, in Mongolia, and Dilorom Olimova, in Tajikistan.
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KABBALAH
Certainty in Uncertain Times
Common Ground is pleased to present Chagai Shouster, from Kabbalah University and Kabbalah Center of Costa Mesa, talking about Certainty in Uncertain Times.
Join us on April 3rd during the 9:00 am or 10:30 am Sunday services and listen as Chagai shares with us the teaching of Kabbalah revealing how we create the reality we experience every day.
He will help us explore how to use the power of our minds to create a better reality and to draw better situations and opportunities into our lives.
He says: "The credit crunch, unstable job market, worry and unease everywhere, seem to demonstrate that simply nothing is guaranteed."
"How are we to move forward, to be prosperous and secure? How are we to see our hopes for a good life become more than a distant dream?"
Kabbalah teaches that inside each of us lies the power to create our reality, to make our dreams come true - for each of us personally, and for this troubled world.
Yehuda Berg, internationally renowned authority on Kabbalah , says: "What people really want, deep down in the farthest reaches of their chromosomes, isn't to be successful. Instead, they want to be fulfilled. And by that I mean deeply and truly fulfilled - brimming with joy, satisfaction, and prosperity."
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ANNUAL SPRING YARD SALE
Serving the Greater Good
Common Ground is pleased to offer its Annual Spring Yard Sale on Saturday, April 16, from 7 am to noon.
The yard sale is a major opportunity to help fund operating expenses of Common Ground and at the same time benefit our local community.
In support of the environmentally sustainable idea, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, what is no longer useful or necessary for one person may be neede by someone else.
Offering items at a low cost benefits everyone.
Spring has sprung!
Now is the time to clear your clutter, simplify your life, clean your closets and storage areas, and release unneeded 'stuff'. (Please do not donate large, heavy items such as sofas and refrigerators. Small, lightweight furniture is fine.)
We will begin collecting donations on Saturday, April 9, at the yard sale location.(Please call to confirm that someone will be home to accept your donations. 714-744-6286. Any questions? Talk to Sharon.)
17601 Rainier Dr.
Santa Ana, CA 92705
A crew of people to sort and organize items on Friday, April 15, and volunteers to work the yard sale on Saturday, April 16, are needed. Sign-up sheets will be available at Common Ground two weeks before the sale.
Thanks for participating by giving your items or by 'shopping' the day of the sale.
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TITHING 2011
As We Give, So Shall We Receive ~ Common Ground is truly blessed and in turn becomes a blessing in the world
Common Ground
reaches
out to the global community through our
spiritual
practice of conscious giving.
Giving back
to the
world
is an important aspect of our mission and
vision. A
balanced integral approach is reflected in
conscious
selection of 501c3 qualified programs and
institutions
to which Common Ground provides tithes each
month.
Recipients of Common Ground 2011
tithes
include:
IONS
(Institute of
Noetic Sciences), advancing the science of
consciousness and human experience to serve
individual and collective transformation; Kiva,
empowering people to lift themselves out of
poverty; Disability
Rights California, affirmatively
addressing the needs of the traditionally
underserved and underrepresented disability
community; Project
HOPE School, (Homeless
Outreach Program in Education), helping
children without permanent homes transition
into the mainstream educational system;
Walking
Shield, helping to improve the
quality of life for American Indian families;
Direct
Relief International, supporting the
immediate medical needs of earthquake
victims in Haiti; and, Direct Relief International, supporting the immediate medical needs of earthquake and tsunami victims in Japan
The organizations to
which
Common Ground tithes are meaningful programs
where people from the spiritual community and
its
friends are already serving with heart and
hand, and
supporting with time and treasure.
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UPCOMING 2011 EVENTS ~ REVISED
Mark Your Calendar Today
CURRENTLY
SCHEDULED:
Reverend Leo Booth: Say Yes to Spirit: Sun, May 1
Mother's Day: Sun, May 8
Freebo: Sun, May 15 (guest vocalist)
Father's Day: Sun, Jun 19
July 4th Pool Party: Mon, Jul 4
Karl Anthony: Sun, Jun 12
Melissa Suzanne: Sun, Jul 10 (guest vocalist)
Covenant Dedication: Sun, Jul 24
Daniel Nahmod: Sun, Jul 31
Darius Lux: Sun, Aug 14 (guest vocalist)
Backpack Outreach Project: Aug/Sept
Annual Common Ground Picnic: Sun, Sept 4
Daniel Nahmod: Sun, Sept 11
Karie Hillery: Sun, Sept 18 (guest vocalist)
Earthdance & Global Peace Prayer: Sat, Sept 24
Seventh Anniversary Celebration: Fri, Nov 18
Daniel Nahmod: Sun, Nov 20
Thanksgiving Eve: Wed, Nov 23
Christmas Eve: Sat, Dec 24
Christmas: Sun, Dec 25 (CLOSED)
New Year's Eve: Sat, Dec 31
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PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE
Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream
On Saturday, April 30th, Common Ground will host a dynamic Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium.
The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium is an interactive transformational workshop that will inspire participants to play a role in creating a new future: an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet.
The Symposium is supporting the shift in humanity, from a dream rooted in consumption and competition, to one of sustainability and mutuality.
Which one of us doesn't want to be an agent of change?
Which one of us doesn't have a deep desire to turn our concern for the world into meaningful action and find our unique contribution in creating a just and sustainable world?
The symposium is about Being, Knowing, and Doing.
The following questions will be addressed:
Who am I? And how does my identity effect change?
How do I educate myself about the areas of crisis and possibility facing humanity?
What's mine to do in the world?
The Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Program was developed as a full fledged department of the Pachamama Alliance, whose mission is to empower indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest to preserve their lands and culture and, using insights gained from that work, to educate and inspire individuals everywhere to bring forth a thriving, just and sustainable world.
This is a "Don't-Miss Event"
Please join us for lunch. Doors open at 11 am. Event begins at 12 noon and ends at 4:30 pm. $20 Suggested Donation (no one refused entry for lack of funds). Purchase tickets on line or in the Book Boutique at Common Ground
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Common Ground is a Teaching-Learning
Center where people bring their very
souls
where people grow one another by sharing what
they
know where people learn spiritual
practices to
support them in working with the complex
possibilities
of today's world
May you hear and respond to the call of Spirit in your life
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