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Go in the dark
News round-up
Forthcoming events in November
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Reflection: Go in the dark
evening sky

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light,

To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is travelled by dark feet and dark wings.
(Wendell Berry)  

 

Contributed by Rev Danielle Wilson

 

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iConnect
Issue 140 : 13 November 2011

Greetings! 

 

The news last week about the Profiling Initiative  and the various vacancies associated with it has generated considerable interest.  If you missed it, click the links!

  

Blessings from Nicola, Lindsay, Danielle and Tim

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As we introduce some changes to the website to make it easier to navigate for different audiences, we'd like to fill some "missing" pages.  Within the section on Services provided by Interfaith Ministers, we'd like to include a page about Healing. Please get in touch if you can draft this text, or let us re-publish some text you have published elsewhere on this subject.

 

Further examples of poetry, music, prayers, ceremonies, reflections, talks, meditations and other resources are sought for inclusion in our online Ministers Resource Library (Login required to prevent mis-use).  This is a free library of shared resource material contributed by ministers for you to use.

 

Rev Jaap Westerbos reports on the successful start to their one-year Diploma in Group Facilitation, and their plans to re-run the course again in 2012.

 

Rev AnnArun White recommends another powerful YouTube offering about deep emotion in children, entitled Children Full of Life.

 

Forthcoming events in November

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Community Prayers, every Monday 

 

15-17 November: Opening the heart - co-creating a new vision for interfaith encounter, Glastonbury

 

19-20 November: Y2 seminary training, London

 

20 November: Monthly interfaith spiritual gathering, London

20 November: Deepening into sacred awareness, Devon

20 November: Peace, Unity and Interfaith Service, Wicklow

 

21-25 November, Accredited Supervisor Training, Midlands

 

22 November: Only the mystics will survive, Abingdon

 

25-27 November: Tasting Grace - Living Freedom, London

 

26/27 November: Trustee, faculty and staff meeting, Leicestershire

 

27 November: LGBT Forum, Brighton

 

3/4 December: Y1 seminary training, London

 

3 December: Mystic Heart course, Taunton

 

4 December: Universal Worship Service, Manchester

4 December: Inter-faith Service, Suffolk

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Faculty Leader: Nicola Coombe

Gracevine Editor: Sarah Flynn

Administrator: Lindsay Jarrett

Community Facilitator: Tim Pickles

Finance Officer: Danielle Wilson

 

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