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Join our sacred gathering on Sundays normally at 6 PM at the Annapolis Friends Meeting at 351 Dubois Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.
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May 12, 2013
Eighth Sunday of the Path of Transformation
justice...shalom...return...sustainability
healing...interference...peacemaking
relieving suffering...compassion...
Sacred Gathering at 6 PM
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Annapolis Friends Meeting
351 Dubois Road, Annapolis
Reflection by Suzie Robertson
Gathering Leaders
Set-up/Put-away: Rick Dove and Tom Good
Greeter/Usher: Dave Miller
Reader/Communion Assistant: Kim Hinken
Offering Invitation: Suzie Robertson
Community Hour Hosts: Kim Hinken and Adri Eathorne
Co-Creating a Progressive Christian Spirituality
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Chesapeake Pride Festival Presents:
Equality Dance and Gala
May 11, 2013
Let's celebrate our gains in equality and our future hopes.
Join us on May 11th from 8 pm to midnight at the Annapolis Elks Lodge for an exciting dance gala. There will be food, music and a cash bar. Also, there will be a silent auction featuring great items and services from local artists, restaurants and businesses. All proceeds will help Chesapeake Pride Festival continue our work in the Chesapeake Bay area LGBT community.
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NEVER ATTENDED EVOLVE CHESAPEAKE ?
Come to our sacred gathering and check out our community without OPAS (Offering Plate Anxiety Syndrome). Print this coupon, place it in the offering, and be our guest! One guest each evening receives our welcome bread---a tasty homemade loaf usually with cinnamon, vanilla, and raisins.
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News from Greater Annapolis Interfaith Network:
Walking With Your God Labyrinth Workshop Saturday, May 11th 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EASTPORT MEMORIAL LABYRINTH The Rev. Dr. David G. Jones, Veriditas Certified Labyrinth Facilitator This is a FREE workshop, but space is limited and registration is required. To register, email office@stlukeseastport.org or call 410-268-5419. |
ALONE IN THE FOREST
by Christina Borgoyn
Remember the softness we felt when traversing the forest alone together, each inside our own head whose depths we never knew, though the longer we were out in the earth, soul became attached to the land, for where we stood instinct of lineage remembered the spirits that lingered nearby who yearned to be as tender as we had once been when we first discovered how to breathe without blanket of womb. |
WOMEN'S SPIRITUALITY GROUP
We are meeting at 7 pm every other Tuesday at Kathy Baker's home in Edgewater. Our focus is on ways of connecting to the Divine. Each meeting, several topics about spirituality and women are discussed, and a different form of meditation is shared in order to learn about it and try it out.
If you would like to join the group, please email Kathy Baker at
k3b@comcast.net.
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American Cancer Society
RELAY FOR LIFE
May 17 - May 18
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Cancer Survivors
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The American Cancer Society Relay For Life movement gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease.
At the Relay for Life for Arnold/Annapolis on May 17 - May 18, teams of people will camp out at Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds and will take turns walking or running around a track or path. Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times during the event. Because cancer never sleeps, the overnight event, from 6 pm Friday to 6 am Saturday, lasts 24 hours.
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For more information on how you can get involved, contact:
Hilary Humphrey
Relay for Life Event Chair
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May Covenant Dates
birthdays, anniversaries, covenant dates
May 4, 2013 Adri Eathorne & Him Hinken Wedding May 5, 2007 Adri Eathorne & Kim Hinken Holy Union
May 6, 1998 Linda J. Kahl Death
May 9, 1937 Robert Brian Eathorne (d. 4/6/2013)
May 11, 2003 Sean Patrick Riley Birthday May 11, 1960 Cynthia Brister (d. 12/31/2004) May 14, 2011 Rick Dove & Tom Good Wedding
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ERINE'S SCRABBLE GAME, by Erine Sedicum
The word is "loved."
Each year, I try to avoid Mother's Day...not that Mom was perfect. In fact, she refused to be called Mom but Patty. Over the years since her death in 2000, I found many ways to pretend Mother's Day didn't exist... I would not do Mother's Day projects but encourage the children to make something for Mom. One year, a child made something, a card I believe, and gave it to me and said, "Give it to your Mom." I said, "Thank you I will." I turned to the bathroom and started to cry a few tears. I returned to other children and continued the activity, hiding "Mom, I miss you."
This year, I won't won't won't avoid it. I will make the phone calls. I don't see any point to sending cards as I want to hear the voices of my "Mom" in Connecticut, Virginia, and Maryland. If I just leave a message they'll hear my voice...I love my stepmothers and my now retired AACC mom. I wish all Moms a Happy Mother's Day whether you are a mom to a child or an animal (your baby...mine too). I have one more message, Mom, you aren't Patty but Mom, and if I could do anything on Mother's Day it would be a Scrabble game, our 1st game. All the years I watched you play and that would be our day. My first word in our game is LOVED...your turn!
P.S.- In the scrabble game with Evolve Chesapeake, the word is LOVED too...your turn!
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Dinner and a Show June 13, 2013  Join Evolve Chesapeake at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, MD for a performance of In the Heights, the 2008 Tony Award winning musical, set in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood. A place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open and the breeze carries the rhythms from three generations of music. It's a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions you take with you, and which ones you leave behind. What could be better than a great dinner and show in the company of your friends? Knowing that you're helping out Evolve Chesapeake with the purchase of your ticket! The show date is THURSDAY, JUNE 13. Tickets are $51.00. The cost of the ticket includes the show, dinner, coffee/tea, taxes and gratuity. A cash bar is available. And speaking from experience, there isn't a bad seat in the house. Why not get a group of your friends together and join us for the show? For details, call or email Beth Lanier and let her know you're interested. 410-610-2327 EvolveBeth@gmail.com Checks may be made payable to Evolve Chesapeake. Send payment to Evolve Chesapeake, PO Box 6159, Annapolis, MD 21401. Online payments may be available in the near future for a small processing fee. |
ChristPath Seminar June 28-30, 2013 Pittsburg, PA, with Bruce Chilton Co-sponsored by Creation Spirituality Communities 
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 Food Bank Collection Help those in need by bringing to our Sunday gathering, an item or two for the local food bank when you can. Most welcome are pantry staples (tinned meat and fish, boxed pasta products, infant formula, etc.) and personal care products such as laundry detergent, toilet paper, disposable razors, bath/shower soap, deodorant, dish soap, toothpaste, and feminine hygiene products. Collection is ongoing every Sunday.
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$1,545.79 earned so far!
Do you use iGive.com to shop online?
If you answered "no" to one or both of those questions, you are missing out on donations to help fund our ministry. Talk with Pastor Wayne if you need technical assistance understanding how to do these passive donation options for YOUR community.
Other Ways to Support our Ministry:
Books for sale at our Welcome Table
Titles by Matthew Fox, John Shelby Spong, Marcus Borg, etc.
Note cards for sale with beautiful nature photography
by Rick Dove.
Also, your used cell phones and empty ink jet and toner cartridges can also help fund our ministry. These items fit nicely in the offering basket along with remembrance of time and talent you have offered to our ministries and your financial gifts. Bring them to Gathering with you.
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ALL ARE WELCOME TO 
EVOLVE CHESAPEAKE BOOK GROUP
At new time: 10 - 11:30 am
We are reading Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, and will meet on May 18th fr0m 10 - 11:30 a.m. at the Barnes and Noble Cafe, Harbor Place. This is a lively group and there is still time to join. We will continue discussing the "Pray" section in India and move into the "Love" in Indonesia. Books are readily available if you need a copy. Contact Pastor Wayne at SchwandtW@aol.com.
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For Mothers Day, a few quotes about mothers:
- Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
- A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
- A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. ~George Eliot
- I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. ~Abraham Lincoln
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Thank You from the Editor
Thank you to all who are making this newsletter a vehicle for sharing---an article you wrote, some news you feel is important for us to know, a poem you wrote or discovered, a song or piece of music that speaks to you, a book review, a photo you want to share, a link to a short video, etc. Send it to EvolveSylvia@gmail.com.
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