December 29, 2013
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Ministers |
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Kathleen Rolenz and Wayne Arnason |
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The co-ministers finish out the calendar year of worship
services with a New Year’s liturgy and reflection on how we
know what’s new in our lives. How do we know when we
are in the middle of a momentous change of life? Sometimes
a “New Year” really begins for us in the fall or in the
spring! Sometimes it begins when important relationships
that have shaped our lives are ending because of distance
or death. If the rituals of this formal “new year” are feeling
hollow for you, maybe there is a different way to discern
and celebrate what’s new in your life.
December 22, 2013
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Reverend Wayne Arnason with |
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Kathy Strawser, Director of Lifespan Faith Development |
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As the days get shorter, and the nights longer and darker,
join us for a multi-generation service that challenges us to
question whether dark times are times without hope. We’ll
hear a story about a father and daughter who go into the
woods one winter night to see if they can find an owl! We’ll
sing about the gentle comfort and strength that can be
found in dark nights. We’ll hear reflections and stories
about where hope in the darkness can be found.
December 8, 2013
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Reverend Kathleen Rolenz |
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“I Saw the light…” can refer to a conversion, a moment of
enlightenment or the hopeful waiting for daybreak. Regardless
of the experience, “seeing the light” whether an
intellectual truth, an emotional breakthrough or a spiritual
change of heart is something that happens to human beings
all the time. In honor of Buddha’s enlightenment (Bodhi
Day) and in recognition of the season of Advent, this service
will explore when and how we “see the light.”
This is New Member Sunday and the Free Spirit Band
will be playing for this service.
December 1, 2013
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The Spiritual Autobiography Class
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Come hear the stories of changed lives from members of
West Shore's Spiritual Autobiography class as they relate
how fear, taking a risk, teachers, telling the truth and mountaintop
moments have made them the people they are now
and the people they are becoming.
