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Issue 5 | |
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A Light in the Forest
Offering spiritual tools to transform
our lives and make the world
a better place.
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Minister's Message |
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Giving from the Heart Campaign Moves to Fall
Spring is a time of planting new seeds, summer a time of nurturing the plants that have sprouted from our seed ideas; fall a time of harvest and gratitude, winter a time to let our fields be fallow as we celebrate this Thing called Life. We are moving our annual Giving from the Heart Pledge Campaign from spring to fall, the season of harvest and gratitude.
As good stewards of the tithes you give to our center we need not only have faith, but we need to operate with an intelligent budget for each year. Pledges (promises) received during the fall campaign will be for the year 2010 and begin in January. This enables us to create a budget that reflects both the practical and the possible.
Our giving month will be October. Our "jump start" event will be Karen Ramsey, a brilliant and spiritual financial planner, author of Caring for Your Soul in Money Matters. She will present her workshop at our center, co-sponsored by Village Books, on September 26th. (See the article for more information.) Karen will be our guest speaker at the Sunday service on September 27th.
I will be speaking on aspects of giving and prosperity the first three weeks in October. Rev. Sharon and Paul Ramey will be speaking on the final Sunday of our Pledge Campaign, October 25th. Our board will provide a gratitude buffet after this service followed by the Ramey's prosperity workshop (See article). This workshop will be a gift from the Ramey's and from your board of trustees to our pledgers.
And finally but most importantly, thank you so much for your generous support through your time, talent and treasures to our center, especially during this time of transition. We are so grateful for the richness you bring to us all in so many ways.
Love and blessings,
Rev. Colleen
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CSL Bellingham Ministerial Search |
 Hello Friends!
The search process for our new Senior Minister is well underway and our planning pieces are falling together nicely. Thank you again to everyone who participated in the visioning sessions in June. Through that process we were able to gather clear messages and themes to develop a series of application questions for candidates. Reverend Colleen completed a required profile of our center (e.g. membership info, financial report, etc.) for the ICSL main office and submitted the profile and application questions for their review and posting. Reverend Colleen also posted the position announcement on a number of related listserves. We are ready to receive applications!
Another exciting step in the process that has been completed is the selection of the remaining search committee members. Reverend Colleen MacGilchrist and I continue as co-chairs and Carolyn Martin, Kate Molling, Terrie Dupuis, and Bob MacGilchrist will also join the team. The search committee will meet in late August to establish an application review process, and begin meeting in mid-September to review application materials. The priority date for applications was set for September 1st, and we'll continue to accept applications until the position is filled (meaning there's not a hard closing date for applications; it's open until filled).
As the committee begins the review of application materials and identifies wonderful, vibrant and fabulous candidates to invite to CSL-Bellingham for in-person interviews, we will continue to keep you informed of important dates and timelines as they are determined. I will update the special tri-fold display board about the search process with new information about the visioning session outcomes and themes and other tidbits you may find interesting.
Thank you again for your prayers and KNOWING the right and perfect candidate comes to us in the right and perfect time and manner!
In Service,
Ronna B. | |
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Sunday Talks
10:00 am - Meditation
10:30 am - Service |
9/6 Music Team Sunday: "Life is a Symphony"
9/13 "Falling Up", Rev. Colleen MacGilchrist
9/20 "All About Awe-Rosh Hashanah", Rabbi Marti Leviel
9/27 "Giving from Unlimited Bounty", Karen Ramsey, Author
10/4 "The Awakened Heart", Rev. Colleen MacGilchrist
10/11 "The Sustainable Heart", Rev. Colleen MacGilchrist
10/18 "The Generous Heart", Rev. Colleen MacGilchrist
10/25 "Prosperity-Taking the Next Step", Rev. Sharon Ramsey | |
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| SOM Class, Tuesdays, September 15 - November 3 |
 SOM 101: THE SPIRITUAL PATH - 8 Week ClassInstructors: Rev. Colleen MacGilchrist and Joanie Nielson, RScP
Dates/Time: 6-8:30 PM, September 15-November 3, 2009, Tuesdays
Where: Center for Spiritual Living Classroom
Cost: $110 new student, $60 review, $15 drop-in
We will be studying and practicing spiritual principles that can dramatically improve and enrich your life. These principles can be applied to every facet of your life, so that daily your life reflects more light, more love, more joy and more fulfillment. This class is informative, stimulating and fun. Come interact with teachers and your fellow students to move your life forward in a wonderful way.
Upon successful completion of Science of Mind 101, you will have a greater understanding of the nature of Life and God's relationship to the individual. You will also understand the creative nature of thought and begin to use affirmative prayer as a means of directing thought toward a specific result.
Books required for the class are The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes and How to Speak Religious Science by Dennis Merritt Jones. When you register, please indicate if you need one or both of these books. You may register by using the PayPal link below or by signing up at the Ask-Me Desk after the Sunday Service.
Registration for new students:
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| WORKSHOP - Saturday, September 26, 9:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m., $80/$95 |
Caring for Your Soul in Matters of Money
Karen Ramsey, Author
September 26, 9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
$80 before 9/18; $95 after 9/18
Co-sponsored with Village Books and Excellence Northwest
Most People struggle with money. Are you one of them? Do you feel anxious, frustrated and fearful because you feel you don't have enough money, or that you give up too much to get what you have?
Stop the Stress, Worry, and Pain about Money in your Life, Once and For All. You truly can. You can end your money pressures forever by applying a few simple principles.
In this powerful, breakthrough workshop, developed by financial planning expert Karen Ramsey, CFP®, you'll discover that you can have a positive, empowering relationship with money that supports your quest to pursue whatever your heart and soul desire.
By getting to the bottom of your money problems, you can join others from all walks of life, rich and poor, who are changing their relationship to money.
Cost: $80 if registered by Friday, September 18. After September 18, the cost is $95. Please register at Village Books or at www.brownpapertickets.com .
Please arrive at 8:45 a.m. and bring water bottle, sack lunch, something to write on and with.
BIO:
Karen Ramsey is the author of two popular books: Think Again: New Money Choices, Old Money Myths and Caring for Your Soul in Matters of Money®. She and her associates were named "FIVE STAR Wealth Managers: Best in Client Satisfaction" by Seattle Magazine in Spring, 2007 and 2008.
Karen is a frequent guest on the KCTS Channel 9 television show "About the Money", and has hosted a one-hour program, "The Money Myth with Karen Ramsey". Ramsey & Associates was presented the Seattle Mayor's Small Business Award in 2007. Bloomberg Financial Magazine included Ramsey & Associates in their "Top Wealth Managers" for 2005, 2006 and 2007. Karen has authored numerous articles about money in national publications, and has received many titles of recognitions since Mutual Funds Magazine selected her as one of the "100 Great Financial Planners for 2002".
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| WORKSHOP, October 25, 12:30-3:30 PM, Free gift to pledgers ($30 non-pledgers) |
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 Passionately Prosperous!Reverend Sharon and Paul Ramey
October 25, 12:30-3:30 pm
Free gift to pledgers, $30 non-pledgers
If you find yourself eternally "waiting for your ship to come in", join Rev. Sharon and Paul Ramey as they give you some practical and spiritual tips for swimming out to that ship!!! Prosperity is not something we have to earn! Prosperity is not something that we become worthy of. Prosperity is available to all, right now!
"Of what use is it to complain about the stinginess of the ocean when you approach holding only a thimble?" Ramanamaharishi
Please register at the Ask Me Desk after the service or send an email to the Center Office at csl-bellingham@msn.com
BIOS:
Sharon Ramey is a minister at Center for Spiritual Living-Seattle, with a ministry that focuses on prosperity, freedom, possibility, and empowerment!
Paul B. Ramey is a veteran entrepreneur with 37 years of profitable business development history. Paul brings an unquenchable passion to his belief that all can experience prosperity!
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| Upcoming Garden Parties! |
Join Merry Teesdale for Gardening
Fun this Fall!
Hi Everyone, The gardens at Woodside have been lovely this year. Many projects have been completed including Bellingham's only Living Fence which was planted at our Gardening Day party last spring by a fun group of folks led by Joanie Nielson. The fence cover-up was part of a project to improve the look of our road frontage. The bare chain link fence to the north became a background for tall zebra grasses. Around the parking lot, the native plants were set off to good advantage by sheet mulching and a rhododendron-topped berm was added to the far end to frame the sign and border the woods. There is a new rock-edged iris garden surrounding the cement pad, thanks to Larry and Eugenia who donated the fabulous irises and to Larry Williams who donated the rocks. Our Metasequoia, the ''Dawn Redwood' has a new ground covering of peach colored irises. This tree, which was donated a couple years ago, is a critically endangered species. Once native in the U.S., it was thought to be extinct until rediscovered in China in 1944. On the walkway, the ground covers are expanding. As planned, they have already saved us many hours of weeding time as well as looking great. There is still a lot of gardening fun to be had this year. Put these Sunday dates on your calendar and join us for some outdoor fun. Wear clothes you'd like to get close to nature in, bring a picnic lunch, some gloves and tools and we'll have a great time together in the gardens. I promise to show you the secret of sheet mulching, the easiest, long-lasting weeding- soil prepping technique ever. Sept 13 "Last of Summer" Gardening Day Planting and enhancing the ground covers, clean-up, sheet mulching.  October 18th "Rock-tober!" Gardening Day Uncover the rocks, Planting for winter, clean-up, sheet mulching. November 15th "Fall Frolic" Gardening Day (alternative rain date, Nov. 22) Leaf raking ruckus, Jump in the leaves contest, Leaf catching contest, Putting the gardens to bed. Release your Inner Child! Many hands make great fun! Enjoy the Fall at Woodside! |
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Affinity Groups! |
Share your passion with a group of like-minded people by hosting an affinity group. Whether your interest is gift making, writing, exploring Science of Mind topics, or other area, you can share your ideas by setting aside a certain time each week for up to eight weeks for people to join you at your home. As host, you facilitate the group and offer participants the opportunity to equally share ideas or experiences. Affinity groups are free and strengthen connections among the CSL-Bellingham community. Whether you want to host or just experience an Affinity Group, let Enid Wood ( enidwood@gmail.com) know your area of interest and she can match you up with others who have similar interests.
Nonviolent Communication: Based on Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Learn thinking and talking skills that will help your relationships, eliminate the need for defensiveness, and enable you to be truthful, respectful and authentic in all situations. Now is the perfect time to learn the communications skills we did not learn as children or in school. Tuesday evenings, 7 to 9 pm, beginning August 18, 2009 at 1744 Sapphire Trail, Bellingham, WA 98226. Contact Shila Moa at Shilamoa@comcast.net or 360 715 1298.
Nutrition Affinity Group
The Nutrition Affinity Group will be a discussion of food, supplements, health, discrepancies in what is "good for you", and spiritual reasons for keeping your body in good health. Participants will develop their own goals, individual plan, and ways to implement it. Thursday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, beginning October 8th at the CSL-Bellingham Office. Contact Anne Richardson at zannadel@gmail.com for more information, or to sign up. |
| Flower Power! |
Do you have a bouquet to share?
 Please consider signing up to bring flowers for the platform on Sunday mornings. It is a beautiful way to share from your house to OUR HOUSE. Whether you bring your own bouquet or one from the florist, providing flowers is a wonderful way to celebrate anniversaries, birthdays, and other special occasions.
Contact the office at 360-734-4160 or
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| CONTACT INFORMATION:
Reverend Colleen MacGilchrist, Minister Emeritus Center for Spiritual Living - Bellingham
2224 Yew Street Road, Bellingham, WA 98229
360-734-4160
Office Hours: By appointment
Newsletter Editors: Cathy Angell & Dan Villiott | |
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