Originally Blessed!

  
June 22, 2012
eNewsletter from

EVOLVE Chesapeake

Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community, an original blessing community

IN THIS ISSUE
We Shall Overcome!
June 24 Sacred Gathering
LGBTQ Survey
Dances with Dragons
Spong Reading Group
Awakening Imagination for Transformation
Covenant Dates
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Fundraising for Ministry
Becoming a CS Community
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WE SHALL OVERCOME!
WE SHALL OVERCOME!
WE SHALL OVERCOME SOME DAY!
OH, DEEP IN MY HEART I DO BELIEVE
WE SHALL OVERCOME SOME DAY!


June 24, 2012

 

Pridetide IV and 

First Sunday of

Via Positiva

  

Sacred Gathering at 6 PM

 

  Reflection by The Rev.  Kathy Baker 

 

Annapolis Friends Meeting

 351 Dubois Road, Annapolis


GATHERING LEADERS: Communion Celebrant:  Rev. Wayne Schwandt  
Setup/Put Away: Rick Stewart  
  Usher/Greeter: Suzie Robertson   
Reader/Communion Assistant: Phila Hoopes 
Offering Invitation: Dave Miller  
Community Hour: Chuck Riley & Wayne Schwandt   

We continue our progressive spiritual journey!
Take a Survey 
Interfaith Voices, a radio program heard on WAMU, is taking a survey in planning for a series on religion and the LGBTQ community.  To take the survey, a 2-3 minute endeavor, go to www.interfaithradio.org. Scroll down to the bottom and click on 'Survey."
 

Dances with Dragons Climax DC-Area Creation Spirituality Gathering


 
R/Evolutionary Theologian Matthew Fox keynotes, teaches at weekend of leading-edge spiritual experience, learning, growth and Cosmic Celebration.

 All the magic, mystery and mythic power of dragons will arise as a dynamic crowd of healers, artists, community-builders, mystics, activists, and seekers evoke their inner fire in "Awakening Imagination for Transformation: A Gathering of Creation Spirituality Communities," scheduled July 27-29 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville in Rockville, Maryland.

 

Hosted by Evolve Chesapeake and Creation Spirituality Communities, the radically inclusive weekend features a keynote by the (r)evolutionary theologian and author Matthew Fox, Ph.D., along with workshops on community-building, spiritual activism, art as meditation and body prayer.

 

Evoking archetypal images of dragons through art and experiential workshops, the weekend offers an opportunity to reach beyond the "either/or" of the reptilian brain to dance in an inclusive "both/and" perspective, embracing diversity and interconnectedness to achieve global healing.

 

To read more, click here. 

Spong Reclaiming

Spong Reading Group on 

July 14  

 

The group reading "Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World" will meet at PANERA, FESTIVAL AT RIVA at 11 AM on Saturday, June 14.  We are reading Chapters 30-34: "The Oral Period" thru "The Corinthian Letters." There is still time to join the group.  If you need a copy of the book, contact Pastor Wayne at SchwandtW@aol.com
 
 For Information and Registration

COVENANT DATES
birthdays, anniversaries, covenant dates

 

June 2  - Roy D. Woods Birthday (d. 2005)

June 3  - Cindy Brown & Debbie Bohle Holy Union (2006)

June 3  - Scott Bowling Birthday 

June 3  - Tim Mortimore Birthday  

June 6  - Samantha Esther Riley Birthday (2000)

June 7  - Adri Eathorne Birthday

June 9  - Terry Shanahan Birthday

June 21 - Glen O. Van Steenburg Birthday (d. 1999)

June 28 - Ben Dickerson & Eric Lekberg Holy Union (2003)

June 28 - Yolanda Kresslein death (1999)

IF YOU LIKE THESE, YOU'LL LIKE
EVOLVE CHESAPEAKE! 

 

              Elizabeth Schusler Fiorenza
Rumi                                          Jesus of Nazareth
            John Shelby Spong
                                                      Matthew Fox
 John Dominic Crossan
                                                      Andrew Cohen
 Diana Butler Bass                      Marcus Borg   
    Starhawk                               Gandhi
Buddha          Joseph Grizone 
                                                 Andrew Harvey
OPEN ARMS WILL WELCOME YOU!
Our small discussion group will meet Tuesday, June 26 at 6:30 PM.  We will have dinner together and then watch and discuss part of Joseph Campbell's series, The Power of Myth
with Bill Moyers interviewing.  All are welcome.  Contact Pastor Wayne at SchwandtW@aol.com for more details.
 FUNDRAISING FOR MINISTRY
USE iSEARCH AND HELP CCSC!  
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Do you search the web? If so, you could be raising a penny for Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community every time you search! iSearchiGive.com is a search engine powered by Yahoo! Search and iGive.com, the internet's first online shopping mall where a portion of each purchase is donated to your favorite cause. Try it today - it's free! To try iSearch, click here.  After you click on the previous link, in the upper right corner will be CLICK HERE TO ADD ISEARCHIGIVE TO YOUR BROWER.  Make it your default search engine and earn a penny for every search.  Every penny counts! 

YOUR USED CELL PHONES AND EMPTY INK JET AND TONER CARTRIDGES CAN HELP FUND OUR MINISTRY. BRING THEM TO WORSHIP WITH YOU! These items fit nicely in the offering basket along with remembrance of time and talent you have offered through our ministries AND your financial gifts.  
  
When shopping online always go through www.iGive.com!  Register Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community as your charity and shop away!  To date we have earned $1,329.07.  Thank you for shopping through iGive.com and using iSearch.com for online searches!

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"We must all learn to live together
as brothers [and sisters]
or we will all perish together as fools. 
We are tied together in the single garment
of destiny, caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality.
And whatever affects one directly
 affects all indirectly. 
For some strange reason
 I can never be what I ought to be
 until you are what you ought to be.
And you can never be what you ought to be
until I am what I ought to be.
This is the way God's universe is made;
this is the way it is structured." 
 
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

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