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November 14, 2013   
eNewsletter from
EVOLVEChesapeake

 

Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community

 

We are a spiritual community following the radical inclusiveness of Jesus.    
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IN THIS ISSUE
Fall Community Meeting
November 17th Sacred Gathering
World AIDS Day
"Painting the Stars"
"Autumn's Beliefs" by Christina
November Covenant Dates
Photos by André Hill
Program on Criminal Justice Issues
Poem by Erine
Other GAIN News
"Contemplating Mortality"
Book group meeting
Ways to Support Evolve Chesapeake
All are Beloved
8th Principle of Creation Spirtuality
Creation Spirituality Communities Online
All Saints Day
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Fall Community (Congregational) Meeting this Sunday 
November 17 from 3-5 PM
   in Large Classroom of Annapolis Friends    

BE SURE TO COME!
 
 November 17, 2013
the 
Ninth Sunday 
  on the Path of Emptying...   
uncertainty...letting go...darkness...sinking...pain
nothingness....silence...loss...depth   
Sacred Gathering at 6 PM
meeting at
 Annapolis Friends Meeting
351 Dubois Road, Annapolis
 
   Reflection by the Rev. Dr. Wayne Schwandt                 
Gathering Leaders:  
Set-up/Put-away: Rick Stewart
Greeter/Usher: Dave Miller
Reader/Communion Assistant: Rick Dove and Tom Good
Offering Invitation: open
Community Hour Host: John Petrosillo and Tim Mortimore

Co-creating a Progressive Christian Spirituality 



"Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of."
                                                    - Rachel Naomi Remen


Evolve Chesapeake Events for World AIDS Day

Ribbon with State House Saturday, November 23 from 10 AM-2 PM
we are invited to volunteer to help with children's activities at Bishop Craig N. Coates' Church in Glen Burnie.

Sunday, December 1 at our Sacred Gathering we will welcome churches and people from all around to commemorate World AIDS Day.

From:
Six Steps of Passion by Jamie Moran
A resource Scott Bowling used a few years ago at
our Sacred Gathering in his Reflection on Passion   
 
"The most profound definition of passion is: what we will suffer and lose for Love (really, for the Truth of Love, which is the heart truth--not any abstracted truth, or a doctrinal truth, but a truth lived out to the full and discovered only by the human heart). Passion is the energy of love, its muscle, its outgoing and 'put up or shut up' outreach and thrust. Passion is what we will "do" for what matters most to us, and indeed, what matters most in all the world. Passion is binding ourselves to what is at stake, for the sake of saving it."

 

PAINTING THE STARS

                     

Session 2 will be at 4:30 PM at Annapolis Friends on Sunday, Nov. 24.  

Session 3 will be viewed at Open Arms on Tuesday, Nov. 26.  

 

The Reader for the series is available for download by clicking here or by accessing it in the sidebar on the left

under Quick Links, RELATED TOPICS.  

 

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us

                     are looking at the stars."                                                          - Oscar Wilde 


Autumn's Beliefs
     By Christina Borgoyn

autumn leaves fall upon the cresting earth,
seasons bleed into a fortitude of decay,
her words of penchant are lost to the winds,
yet I still linger in quieted footsteps...

the colours shift and change upon the breast of my footsteps,
through the trees quickens the winds,
arbitrary to popular belief, death is only a renaissance of decay,
for it yields a rainbow of sin upon the disagreeing earth...

autumn leaves fall upon the cresting earth,
no longer am I deceived by the scorching winds,
dulcet tones are hollow in the sound of yesterday's decay,
yet I still linger in quieted footsteps...
 

November Covenant Dates
Birthdays, Anniversaries, Covenant Dates 

November  3  Chuck Riley & Wayne Schwandt Anniversary 1985 
November  9  Beth Lanier Birthday 
November 11 Yolanda Kresslein Birthday (d.1999)
November 23 William E. Riley Birthday (d.1999) 
November 26 Esther J. Hosley Birthday (d.2006)

Gratitude... unlocks all mysteries, reveals all wonders, opens every door, illuminates every heart, unravels every path...

                                                       
                                                               Submitted by Lina Cuartas to On Being
   


   Photos of Fort Meade taken by André Hill
   church held their annual church picnic.
last August, where his mother's
 

GAIN PROGRAM 

 ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE ISSUES IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY 

 Including Screening, Diversion, Sentencing Alternatives & Reentry

Speaker: Judge Philip Caroom 

 

Thursday, November 14  

                          7:30 PM to 9 PM                      

 

The Greater Annapolis Interfaith Network will present a program on Criminal Justice Issues in Anne Arundel County, on Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 7:30 PM in the Community Room of St. John Neumann Church, 620 Bestgate Road, Annapolis, MD 21401.

 

Judge Caroom will make a presentation about criminal justice issues and the parole process. He will share his own observations and opinions about how the system works or doesn't work. We will learn together about our local systems. There will be a discussion after his presentation. Everyone is welcome to attend.

 

Contact Liz Vanden Heuvel for more information, at 410-212-0993 or by email at liz2vh@comcast.net 

 
      From Erine Sedicum

Pittsburgh, PA
Photographed by Erine
  Caged
  Running in circles
  Place to place
  Trapped
  Nowhere to go
  Place to place...
  Let me run--
  Run free in the wind
  Fly with the birds
  Dance to the music
  coming from within
  But I can't
  As I'm caged--
  Trapped
  But tell that to my heart,
  Say my mind can't
  Can't think these things
  And I will call ya mad...
  Let me -
  Let me -
  Let me...

OTHER NEWS FROM GAIN:

HEARING ON MARYLAND'S HIGH INCARCERATION RATE & ITS IMPACT

On November 19, at 7pm, the St. Philip's/UUCA 'Jim Crow' book readers will attend a hearing sponsored by the Anne Arundel County delegation to the General Assembly to present their request that the General Assembly form a commission to study, and recommend to the Governor and General Assembly, best solutions to the problem of Maryland's high incarceration rate and its heavy impact on communities of color. Rufus Norman and Barbara Thomas will be the presenters. It is important that there be an impressive number of others present to show that this issue is important to the community. To car pool to the Legislative Services Building, meet at St. Phillip's at 6:30.

 

FREE HEALTH FAIR IN GAMBRILLS  

The Anne Arundel County Muslim Council is sponsoring a Free Health Fair on Sat., Nov. 16, from 10am to 2 pm, at the Mekkah Learning Center, 814 Brandy Farms Lane, Gambrills Md., 21054. There will be free health screening, free health counseling, disease prevention and private health counseling for women.

 

SUPPORT EASTPORT GIRLS CLUB WITH A BOOK PURCHASED FROM AMAZON  (This will also help Evolve Chesapeake if you're a member of iGive!)

 

In an effort to build their library, which will be offered to all children in the community, the Eastport Girls Club is asking you to help support literacy. Please make a tax-deductible gift by purchasing books from their wish list on Amazon.com. Visitwww.amazon.com and click on "wish list," type in "Eastport Girls Club." You can browse their dream library of approximately 200 titles, starting from as little as 1 cent per book.  

 

 


From Krista Tippett's broadcast, On Being, April 29, 2012 with Dr. Ira Byock  

Contemplating Mortality: The Need to Remember That Death Is a Human and Personal Event, and Not Just a Medical One

Contemplating Mortality
Even while we fight for life with all the tools at our disposal, we have to reckon with the reality of death. The good news, as he tells it, is that there are riches to be gained in that reckoning. That edge of life - which our miraculous medicine allows some to perch on longer than ever before - can be a time of unparalleled repair and celebration. Like it or not, as Dr. Byock says, death completes us. These days more than ever before, we can shape that moment of completion together with those we love. click here for more

Zealot
On Sunday, December 8 at 4:30 PM the Zealot book group
will meet at 4:30 PM at Annapolis Friends Meeting. 
We're looking at Part II (pgs. 73-146).
 

Fundraising with iGive: 
We've earned $1,598.71 so far! 
                               
Do you use iGive to shop online? You can generate a donation to help Evolve Chesapeake every time you shop online with the iGive Button.  It's absolutely free and you're helping your spiritual community this way.  It's really simple, but if you need technical assistance, talk with Pastor Wayne and he'll help you set it up.

There are 1,393 socially responsible stores that make this possible because they want you to like them and shop at them over and over again.  I hope you'll give it a try.  Here's the link:

 
Other Ways to Support our Ministry:

 Books for sale at our welcome table
Titles by Matthew Fox, John Shelby Spong, 
Marcus Borg, and others, and   
Rick Dove's large selection of beautiful nature photography: 
5" x 7" photocards @ $3 and matted photographs @ $10.
 

 And don't forget that 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 along with you to Gathering.  

   
Jesus didn't turn people away
From Creation Spirituality Communities:

8th Principle of Creation Spirituality: 
Every one of us is a prophet. 
Our prophetic work is to interfere with all forms of injustice
and that which interrupts authentic life.
(Via Transformativa)

Creation Spirituality Communities

You can become an individual member of Creation Spirituality Communities or sign up as a participant in the online community for free. Join our online communi- ty, Chesapeake Creation Spirituality Community, and take part in the discussion.  For more information and/ or to sign up, click on www.CreationSpirituality.info. This website is well worth checking out for its interesting videos of Matthew Fox and others who describe various facets of Creation Spirituality.  You'll also find updates of new conferences and much more.


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