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Join us for worship on Sundays normally at 6 PM at the Annapolis Friends Meeting at 351 Dubois Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.
Click here for directions.
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September 9, 2012
Eleventh Sunday of Via Positiva
wonder...joy...trust...awe...cosmos...beauty...amazement
hospitality...delight...blessing...creation
Sacred Gathering at 6 PM
Reflection by the Rev. Wayne Schwandt
at
Annapolis Friends Meeting
351 Dubois Road, Annapolis
GATHERING LEADERS:
Setup/Put Away: Dave Miller
Greeter/Usher: Rick Dove & Tom Good
Reader/Communion Assistant: Chuck Riley
Offering Invitation: Sylvia Oliva
Community Hour: Kim Hinken & Adri Eathorne
We continue our progressive spiritual journey!
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Food/Goods Collection at Evolve Chesapeake
Food Banks throughout the country have been hard hit for the last few years. Please help those in need in Anne Arundel County by donating pantry staples (tinned meat and fish, boxed pasta products, infant formula, etc.) as well as personal care products such as laundry detergent, toilet paper, disposable razors, bath/shower soap, dish soap, deodorant, toothpaste, and feminine hygiene products. Collection is ongoing every Sunday evening at Evolve Chesapeake.
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Sixth Principle of Creation Spirituality
Every one of us is a mystic. We can enter the mystical as much through beauty (Via Positiva) as through contemplation and suffering (Via Negativa). We are born full of wonder and can recover it at any age. |
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Spong Reading Group on
September 8
The group reading " Re-Claiming the Bible for a Non-Religious World" will meet at PANERA, FESTIVAL AT RIVA at 11 AM on Saturday, September 8. We are reading Chapters 35-38: "Resurrection According to Paul" thru "The Theology of Paul as Revealed in Romans." There is still time to join the group. If you need a copy of the book, contact Pastor Wayne at SchwandtW@aol.com. |
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September Covenant Dates
birthdays, anniversaries, covenant dates
Sept 4 Karl D. Walker death (2008)
Sept 11 Marvin Roger Woods death (2001)
Sept 11 In Memory of September 11, 2001
Sept 13 Janice Creamer & Cherly Lanore Civil Union in CT
Sept 17 Rick Stewart Birthday
Sept 19 Dennis L. Myers death (2011)
Sept 20 Justin Michael Abell Birthday (2001)
Sept 23 William E. Riley Birthday (d. 1999)
Sept 28 Glen O. Van Steenburg death (1999)
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A Chronological New TestamentA chronological New Testament is different from and yet the same as the New Testament familiar to Christians. It contains the same 27 documents, but sequences them in the chronological order in which they were written. See complete article on the following website:
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Fertility Options for the LGBT Community
A seminar presented by Grubb's NW Specialty Pharmacy
1517 17th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036
Located 2 blocks from the Dupont Circle Metro
This free seminar at Grubb's NW Specialty Pharmacy will deal with how you can achieve your goal of parenthood. Topics will range from psychosocial issues related to IVF in the LGBT Community and legal implications of the process. Speakers are: Dr. Rafat Abbasi, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. Reproductive Endocrinologist Jennifer Fairfx, Esq., Attorney at Law Adoption and ART Law Joyce C. Migdal, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist RSVP by September 14 by calling Emily or Daphne
at 202-503-2644.
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FUNDRAISING FOR MINISTRY
USE iSEARCH AND HELP CCSC!
one cent per search!
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 BROWSER. 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! As of 9-6-2012 we have earned $1,412.07. Thank you for shopping through iGive.com and using iSearch.com for online searches!
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Books for Sale at our Welcome Table
Titles by Matthew Fox, John Shelby Spong,
Marcus Borg, and more.
Beautiful Note Cards also for Sale
Photography by Rick Dove
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A Call for a Season of Civility
All are invited to an "interfaith cafe" to engage in a dialogue on how to have respectful, honest conversations with people we often avoid because we disagree with them politically, religiously, and other "lys."
For more information go to
September 13th from 7-9 pm
at St. John Neumann's Church
(corner of Bestgate and North Bestgate Roads)
Sponsored by GAIN
(Greater Annapolis Interfaith Network)
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Become an individual member of Creation Spirituality Communities by clicking here or sign up as a participant in the online community for FREE! Join our community, Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Center, and participate in the discussion. Go to www.CreationSpirituality.info for more information and to sign up! Join the online group, Chesapeake Creation Spirituality.
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1st Annual Walk for Recovery
Saturday, September 8
Ocean City, MD Registration 8 AM, Walk starts 9:30 AM
A 5-mile walk, beginning and ending on the Boardwalk, near the inlet in front of the
Life Saving Museum
Proceeds go towards educational programs, raising awareness, helping to erase the stigma associated with addiction, and events that benefit the recovering communities and their families.
For more info contact Mary Myers 410-251-1512
WalkForRecovery@hotmail.com
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Our website is www.EvolveChesapeake.com
More sites which may interest you:
www.onbeing.org
www.GAINonline.org
(Greater Annapolis InterfaithNetwork)
www.ProgressiveChristianity.org
*See description below
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ProgressiveChristianity.org
From ProgressiveChristianity.org.: ProgressiveChristianity.org provides guiding ideas, networking opportunities, and resources for progressive churches, organizations, small groups, and individuals with connections to Christianity. We promote an understanding of Christian practice and teaching that leads to a greater concern for the way people treat each other than for the way people express their beliefs, the acceptance of all people, and a respect for other religious traditions. We affirm the variety and depth of human experience and the richness of each persons' search for meaning, and we encourage the use of sound scholarship, critical inquiry, and all intellectual powers to understand the presence of God in human life. We are opposed to any exclusive dogma that limits the search for truth and free inquiry, and we encourage work that eases the pain, suffering and degradation inherent in many of the structures of society, as well as work that keeps central to the Christian life fair, open, peaceful, and loving treatment of all human beings. >>>>><<<<<
"But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible... Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order."
> Father Gustavo Gutierrez
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Note from Editor
Originally Blessed!! is sent out every Thursday. News, notices of events, articles, poetry, etc. are welcome and needed from You! Please send them to EvolveSylvia@gmail.com by the previous Wednesday for publication in the upcoming newsletter, or at any time if the material is not time-sensitive. Thank you!
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